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In Canada, this would be approximately the cost of a one-way ticket from Toronto to Vancouver. Our rail lines are absurdly expensive relative to flying and even driving on your own.
Be that as it may, in comparison to Germany, the distance between those two places is absurdly far, and the population density in between is absurdly low. ;)
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This would be a promotion piece if it was written for the US or Ireland https://www.thelocal.de/20230410/more-than-a-third-of-german...
Not sure what point you're getting at, but you can see vast majority of trains in Ireland (over 90% from eyeballing this page) are on time[1]. [1] https://www.irishrail.ie/en-ie/about-us/train-punctuality-re...
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Not sure what point you're getting at, but you can see vast majority of trains in Ireland (over 90% from eyeballing this page) are on time[1]. [1] https://www.irishrail.ie/en-ie/about-us/train-punctuality-re...
The cross country ones aren't really of interest to me. Those don't move a whole lot of volume. The inner city transportation such as the DART is what most people use and it's punctuality rating is closer to 70%. I'd love to know how they measure that though because I took the DART 5 days a week for months and it was not on time far more often than it was. The people here literally don't bother checking the listed ti…
You may have had a good experience here in Germany as a tourist, but it's simply not reality. Trains are not reliably on time here these days, and it's a huge problem.
I do not doubt the DART is unreliable in Dublin, the buses are just as bad (I moved to Germany from Dublin a little over a year ago). I know it's a bit apples to oranges comparison between Germany and Ireland, but I can assure you, it is bad here in Germany currently!
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The cross country ones aren't really of interest to me. Those don't move a whole lot of volume. The inner city transportation such as the DART is what most people use and it's punctuality rating is closer to 70%. I'd love to know how they measure that though because I took the DART 5 days a week for months and it was not on time far more often than it was. The people here literally don't bother checking the listed ti…
When people talk about Deutsche Bahn being unreliable, they are talking about the cross-country regional / ICE network, not city rail (S-Bahn etc in Berlin, Hamburg are frequent and pretty reliable). You may have had a good experience here in Germany as a tourist, but it's simply not reality. Trains are not reliably on time here these days, and it's a huge problem. I do not doubt the DART is unreliable in Dublin, the…
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France doesn't get clockface timetabling because the topology of the network doesn't allow it - to mamy chokepoints. (Of course when I say doesn't allow it, I mean they could, but it would be very impractical and require major tradeoffs.)
That doesn't make any sense. The UK runs 2x the services on a network of less than 50% of the size of France - so 4x the services per route km. Believe me the UK network is riddled with horrendous chokepoints too. Most of these routes have about 1-2tph running on them max. The UK (and I'm sure many other countries) manages to run clockface timetabling (for the most part) with a lot of routes on 10tph++. It's not the…
But no, it's so easy for you to just shout "it doesn't make any sense" without first wondering if you had the complete picture. The French are incompetent and wasteful, that's obvious isn't it?
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Don’t create mental blocks like that in your head just because everyone else in your age group says the same thing. You don’t have to zap every penny of debt in order to enjoy your life.
> You don’t have to zap every penny of debt in order to enjoy your life. No, you don't, but you can't discharge student loans in a bankruptcy, and you have to pay them every month once you're no longer a student. When I got to the end of medical residency, I took a job starting the day after it ended. A German-born and raised doctor of my acquaintance said that I was being foolish, I should take a month off after fou…
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I'm surprised this is coming from the Metro. Trains in England are bad , but trains in Germany are the worst . The only thing that works in Germany are the busses, and even then, some of them you have to call an hour before first...
Lol Trains in the UK are shit. Every ICE Trainset and even most commuter services have way more comfort than the UK trains with uncomfortable seats, usually no tables or sockets in second class on commuter routes, a smell of shit inside the Avanti Pendolinos, and trains that should have been recycled 30 years ago.