The one on the left seems to be a Chinese train tho https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanghai_maglev_train
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Meanwhile in Japan: Train is 30 seconds late "here's a letter for your employer explaining why you were only 29 minutes and 30 seconds early for your 8 hour shift that will inevitably have an additional 8 hours of unpaid overtime tacked on to it."
Nice the train is only 15 minutes late? That's awesome - me riding any train in the US
Wait until you hear about Spanish trains.
Japan transit- Am I a joke to you?
American here: yeah, not far off.
funny but inaccurate
i live in vienna. the train comes so often, nobody bothers to check the schedule anymore. just wait 2 mins, enter, go.
Same in Paris.
"What do you mean I have to wait 4 minutes for the next metro?"
Meanwhile in Belgium,
"I don't know where or when will I end up after I board the bus back home from work"
American here - I recently started taking the train to go to work! Previously I couldn't due to no trains scheduled for the return home trip after my shift was over, but after getting a new schedule, I got on board the train! So far in the past two months, I've already had a few instances of the train being delayed or missing it entirely. One day, the train was delayed by 30 minutes and stated they would be held for an unknown amount of time to put out a fire on the tracks at a station ahead - drove into work that day. Another day, the train was delayed by 5 minutes. Outside of that, I was late to the train by like 5 minutes and it left without me (still adjusting to early morning schedule).
So far, I like taking the train much more than driving the car.
I’m Polish but I also made the switch to use public transport instead of my car, even though it’s not the cheapest once you’re not a student anymore. I feel better though knowing how much fuel I save by not driving in traffic for 1.5h 4 days a week. The other thing is that the money goes to the city so I will likely benefit from it in some way
And you also get a little bit of time to yourself! I use it to study for certs.
Of course the trains leave without you if you are 5 min late.
It will leave without you if you are 30 seconds late. Hell, it will even leave if you are 5 seconds late unless they see you running and are feeling extra nice.
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Germany's known for having terrible rail. Probably on account of BMW lobbying.
BMW, VW and Mercedes. The German Bundesbahn was perfect then the CDU, CSU and FDP killed it due to lobbyism. Now, the politicians suck the cocks of the CEOs of the mentioned companies. SPD and Grüne always say that the Deutsche Bahn needs more money, but they had the chance between 98 and 05. Did they change something? No there was not enough money according to them.
Not even the biggest thing that beautiful trio ruined. Their lobbying and Mutti Merkel's politics were the main contributors to the Hungary problem. So if you want to know why common defense policies get vetoed or why is the Ukraine response is a shitshow, the root cause is that VW needed cheap exploitable workers.
Really? As an American who had never ridden a train before, I was impressed by Germany's public transit. I remember wishing we had such systems everywhere over here.
Honestly though, I'd prefer high speed mag-lev systems that run like clockwork.
Germany's known for poor rail, America's known for no rail.
As a European I have to say, you are very optimistic about our train schedules.
Not to downplay any of the myriad problems here in the USA, but I think many of us are trying to believe that a better world is possible and this sometimes leads to unrealistic views of how much better things are abroad. Sometimes.
But I am hopeful that this country is increasingly humiliated for at least a couple of decades.
The blind hope that somewhere in this world there is a functioning public transit system is all that keep me going some days. Let me have this
Honestly, the perspective of what constitutes a functioning public transit system depends a lot on what you have as a point of reference.
I'm portuguese but I lived in Germany for 5 months during which I used exclusively public transports and bikes. Central Europeans complain a lot about Deutsche Bahn and indeed during this time I saw a few strikes, delays and suppressions. However, transports were still much more reliable and much more frequent than I'm used too so I could never really consider it problematic, although my Central European friends complained a lot.
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You clearly havent heard of swedish trains.
The railroad here is a bad joke at this point, mainly due to shutting down the organization that was responsible for maintainence and shoving it into another agency that has no clue. As a bonus the new agency doesn't even do the repair work themselves but hires contractors at the lowest bidder. So stuff breaks constantly, which causes delays.
At this point just getting the rail network to "normal" standards would cost billions. Let alone expanding it to cope with current traffic levels.
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Which eu countries? Most of eu countries are on second meme
On the contrary, when I lived in the US on Long Island, a part of the country where people warn life without a car is impossible, I had a great transit experience. Buses were generally on time, modern and equipped with live tracking, and the trains were great too.
I know LI’s relative poor transit options are mostly in comparison to other areas in the Northeast, which is a densely populated region. I imagine my experience would be totally different in the Midwest or the Prairies. And that’s especially true for trains – LI is awesome in that regard
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Japanese transit users: "Don't worry, we can grab the next one. It will be here in 48 seconds."
"in precisely 48 seconds"
We deeply apologize that it took the train 49 seconds to arrive. We have prepared notes for your boss in case you're late, and there will be a half page ad in tomorrow's paper confirming our CEO has committed seppuku to atone.
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Wait until you hear about German trains.
Can't be late if it doesn't arrive at all.
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Although there are many improvements to be made, like international euro rail connecting the capitals, better prices, a reliable DB and most importantly EU standard track system, I love our euro rails.
But I've gotta confess, the fact the US train is called Marc is kinda cool.
"Hey, I wonder where Marc is. Is he coming?"
"Nah men, Marc is completely derailed again. He burned down an entire town and he's toxic AF."
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Meanwhile in Greece:
Most of my country doesn't have trains. The only train on time goes to the airport, yes THE airport. Everything else is buss for train. And I purposely didn't mention the country but everyone from here knows it when they read buss for train.
...that's the shanghai maglev
edit: it was built by siemens though, so get a few euro wank points.
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