Meanwhile in North America, Canada’s VIA is operating on a shoestring and being further threatened … and in the last 50 years the US has pulled up most of the rails that were installed in the previous century. We’re stuck with airplanes, hybrid metro-transit, and what’s left of Greyhound. But, hey, we’ve got a world to police!
It sucks the price is increasing. 58€/month is still cheaper than what my Jobticket (sponsored by my employer) use to cost, it was over 100€/month.
ITT: Germans complaining that everything is not perfect and incapable of appreciating all the good the Deutschland ticket has done.
Meanwhile in North America, Canada’s VIA is operating on a shoestring and being further threatened …
Meanwhile in Germany the 49€ ticket is on the verge of dying and will be soon the 58€ ticket - all while the railroads are practically falling apart and the FDP, who is in charge of the transportation ministry, wants to feed 100 million to save an air taxi startup. lol
Maybe be a bit careful with what kind of “success” story you want to flaunt around.
This article just reminded me to cancel my DB ticket, so they didn’t get everything wrong I guess
And that is with shit rail infrastructure. Guess what would happen if we’d actually invest in rails?
Edit: Removed comma
This is totally unrelated but we don’t use that comma after ‘Guess’ in English. I’m reminded of it because I’m learning German and it’s been very difficult for me to remember to put commas after “I think” etc.
It’s an effect that our conservatives from CDU and CSU as well as liberals from FDP are denying to exist and are decrying the fact that it costs money (and helps the average guy, but they can’t say that out loud)
That is why we can’t have nice things. Everything needs to make a profit and cannot simply be good.
Infrastructure shoudn’t be required to make a profit. They are there for the public good. What’s next? Paying for sitting on public benches and entering public parks? Paying for the privilege to exit your house and use the public sidewalk? We already have to pay to use public toilets in some cases…
These things should be available to everyone for free and build and financed via general taxes.