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Re: 9-Euro-Ticket

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Beltiras wrote: post #327
IMTDb wrote: post #316

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This is assuming that your trip starts and stops exactly next to the train station and that there is a non-delayed train available precisely at the right time. In practice that's not the case and those time add up quickly . Car trip will look like: 1. Travel from start to location (3:20) 2. Find parking (0:5) 3. Walk from parking to location (0:10) Total time of 3:35 Your train trip will look like: 1. Go from start t…

Finding parking is hilariously underestimated for any metro area I've been to.

Trying to find parking on the sidewalk can be impossible at times, but in most cities and towns in Germany, there's always a private parking lot nearby (max. 10 minute walk to most stuff).

Worst case, like in the outskirts or smaller towns, you can just park in the parking lot of a big supermarket for 2 hours for free.

Re: 9-Euro-Ticket

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MandieD wrote: post #536
consp wrote: post #458

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You should add at least one 15 min car stop. After an hour or two you are not focused anymore.

Driving on Autobahn sections without speed restrictions, especially when I do let loose and go past 160 km/h, requires so much concentration that I usually turn the stereo off. There’s an old joke that BMW engineers couldn’t understand why they should add a cup holder.

Last BMW I carshared still didn't have a cup holder, so I guess the joke is still relevant.

Re: 9-Euro-Ticket

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0x008 wrote: post #522
MandieD wrote: post #263

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It will be an absolute relief to the elderly/near-elderly poor, for starters. Like the woman I saw in the grocery store a few weeks ago on the verge of tears because the cheapest cooking oil available was 6 EUR/750ml bottle organic canola oil, and that’s still often the case. Inflation in Germany is every bit as bad as it is in the US, so this is also a bit of a welfare payment to all the people who take public trans…

Also Inflation is measured really strangely in Germany. The official number is +7.4%. However, as someone who has no car and owns no home my main expenditures are: - rent (+13 % if I don’t move, at least +30% if I move). - groceries (+20% up until + 50%) - eating out / going out.(+20%) For this year only! Most prices have already risen in 2021 “due to Covid”… I guess for elderly people in cities it will be similar, p…

Just use the McDonalds Cheeseburger index. It was 1,29€ on 2019, now it is 1,89€ (+46.5%).

Almost all my normal food groceries have gone up by the same percentage amount (raw chicken, ground beef, eggs, milk etc.), and these should be unaffected (at least for now) by the war in Ukraine.

Re: 9-Euro-Ticket

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Havoc wrote: post #43

Wild - that gets me barely a days worth of tube travel in london (6.5 EUR a day)

Don't worry. The normal day ticket in Hamburg costs 8.2€. And the one-way ticket costs 3.5€ (with bus being slightly cheaper). So you are doing just fine. Public transport is crazy expensive here.

Re: 9-Euro-Ticket

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bowsamic wrote: post #120
sascha_sl wrote: post #73

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And I can't wait for the usual politicians from FDP and Union to draw the conclusion that free or cheaper public transport will forever be unfeasible, not that we need to invest more into the rail network.

Here in Hamburg it's really the busses that get overwhelmed. The S-Bahn and U-Bahn are rarely overly full compared to the busses.

And public transport here is so expensive. For a return trip, it is cheaper, and faster, to take a car (both petrol and parking costs). The only thing that taking public transport saves you is the hassle of traffic (so you can do something else on your ride), and parking, which can be real bad in some areas of the city.

The S-Bahn and U-bahn are usually only crowded on peak hours (2 or 3 hour intervals in the morning and evening).

Re: 9-Euro-Ticket

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amarant wrote: post #171

This is awesome! For comparison, a single fare ticket from the Stockholm suburb I live in to city Central costs about €8.70. 9 euros for a whole month seems like a dream!

It's only a temporary measure. We would be ecstatic if it was permanent. Alas, it is not.

Re: 9-Euro-Ticket

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avianlyric wrote: post #203
netsharc wrote: post #138

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Feels like the European governments' (I generalize...) thinking is, the vaccine is available, it's good enough, and Omicron is "not that bad" anyway, so, if you don't want to get vaccinated, it's on you, but let's get on with our lives...

The EU has a 78% vaccination rate and a 52% booster rate. Mask usage in public places is generally very high. The EU never turned vaccination and masks into divisive political and cultural issue. All of this compares very favourable to the US where vaccination is 65% and boosters are 31%. Plus vaccination, mask usage and lockdowns became deeply decisive topics, substantially reducing the effectiveness of all of them.…

> Mask usage in public places is generally very high.

Not anymore. In Hamburg, nobody wears a mask, even in the supermarkets in the busiest hours, even though during the big pandemic spikes almost everybody wore it properly.

Re: 9-Euro-Ticket

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Post by CRConrad »

rawbot wrote: post #592
MandieD wrote: post #536

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Driving on Autobahn sections without speed restrictions, especially when I do let loose and go past 160 km/h, requires so much concentration that I usually turn the stereo off. There’s an old joke that BMW engineers couldn’t understand why they should add a cup holder.

Last BMW I carshared still didn't have a cup holder, so I guess the joke is still relevant.

Maybe it was just very cleverly and elegantly hidden? Saw some Doug de Muro review, I think it was of a BMW (or could have been some VW group brand), recently and he was all "I bet 90% of owners don't even know they have this cup holder here!"
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