It hurts me to mention it, but where is Berlin on that map?
Oddly you can get a system one annual ticket that covers bus, rail and inter city trams for the greater Manchester area for third of the price
Is that for a whole year?
The network of the German railway is much bigger than this, though.
Hahaha only £3,300? Reading to London with a travelcard is nearly £6k
Its absolutely disgusting how expensive public transport is here.
Germany: “You shall not travel to the East”
UK: “You shall not travel anywhere”
Austria: “(>°.°)> Choo Choo!”
Austria stronk!
I wouldn’t be mad if all the money that people are paying in the UK was going somewhere. Yet, they’re still trying to build their first proper high speed railway.
I don’t get it. That’s not the entire DB network. Not even the entire ICE highspeed network. Something is wrong here. Either the map or the text or both.
rail infrastructure and cost should be one of the big things the goverment looks at when we finally get rid of the torries
austrias public transport system is great
ÖBB 🇦🇹🧈🍞 superiority 💪
Some facts to Austria:
The season ticket is called “Klimaticket”. It’s relatively new, it launched in October 2021.
The 1095€ are the most expensive you could pay for it. If you’re under 25 you only pay 800€ (I only paid 700€, because I got an early bird ticket)
IIRC, there are also senior and student discounts.
Oh and not to forget, you can really travel with absolutely everything. Trains, trams and busses.
It’s great, they wanted more people to travel with public transport, so they made it affordable (you can also pay monthly) and so you don’t have to pay extra tickets for anything.
EDIT: monthly payments instead of rates
That is not the entire Deutsche Bahn network.
If you were travelling from liverpool to manchester regularly, it would probably cheaper to move house.
What is that for a strange Germany map?
UK public transport: so expensive it’s literally cheaper to own a car and drive instead.
Government: oh no why are emissions so high we must ban internal combustion engines and make all cars electric
Uk invents the train then doesnt want people to use it
The Austrian one is an insanely good deal, holy crap!
Damn. That‘s a lot
3860 chf per year in Switzerland.
Me, a nosy American, forgetting that we’re weird ppl with flipped `.` and `,` in decimals
can confirm not a single railroad in eastgermany we still use horses to come around
no but seriously why are u useing a like 60´s era map? even is u just type in “deutsche bahn network” every pic was better than this :c
Some comments on the railways in the UK.
It is indeed quite expensive, buying a ticket at the station to travel from Winchester (almost exactly centre at the south end of Britain) to London would cost me ~£21 (~€25).
Funnily enough, British trains are really popular, pre covid on a midday train journey from Winchester to London it would normally be impossible to find a seat and the hallways would be packed with people standing and sitting on the floor.
There are also loads and loads of small legacy stations that require constant maintenance to their infrastructure. Despite what were known as the “beeching cuts” in the 60s which closed 55% of stations and 30% of route miles, it is very common to have individual villages with there own stations.
This reflects the way in which the railways evolved, contrary to modern rail networks which focus on connection larger hubs and commuters. There was always a bigger focus on breadth rather than depth in the UK.
So… nobody thought to include Luxembourg? €0
In UK public transport is a mess, owned by different companies all private and expensive…
This would be correct for 1971 Germany, but not for today
I don’t get it.
I don’t get how the UK transportation system is “public”. Clearly private because I can’t fucking afford it.
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It hurts me to mention it, but where is Berlin on that map?
Oddly you can get a system one annual ticket that covers bus, rail and inter city trams for the greater Manchester area for third of the price
Is that for a whole year?
The network of the German railway is much bigger than this, though.
Hahaha only £3,300? Reading to London with a travelcard is nearly £6k
Its absolutely disgusting how expensive public transport is here.
Germany: “You shall not travel to the East”
UK: “You shall not travel anywhere”
Austria: “(>°.°)> Choo Choo!”
Austria stronk!
I wouldn’t be mad if all the money that people are paying in the UK was going somewhere. Yet, they’re still trying to build their first proper high speed railway.
I don’t get it. That’s not the entire DB network. Not even the entire ICE highspeed network. Something is wrong here. Either the map or the text or both.
rail infrastructure and cost should be one of the big things the goverment looks at when we finally get rid of the torries
austrias public transport system is great
ÖBB 🇦🇹🧈🍞 superiority 💪
Some facts to Austria:
The season ticket is called “Klimaticket”. It’s relatively new, it launched in October 2021.
The 1095€ are the most expensive you could pay for it. If you’re under 25 you only pay 800€ (I only paid 700€, because I got an early bird ticket)
IIRC, there are also senior and student discounts.
Oh and not to forget, you can really travel with absolutely everything. Trains, trams and busses.
It’s great, they wanted more people to travel with public transport, so they made it affordable (you can also pay monthly) and so you don’t have to pay extra tickets for anything.
EDIT: monthly payments instead of rates
That is not the entire Deutsche Bahn network.
If you were travelling from liverpool to manchester regularly, it would probably cheaper to move house.
What is that for a strange Germany map?
UK public transport: so expensive it’s literally cheaper to own a car and drive instead.
Government: oh no why are emissions so high we must ban internal combustion engines and make all cars electric
Uk invents the train then doesnt want people to use it
The Austrian one is an insanely good deal, holy crap!
Damn. That‘s a lot
3860 chf per year in Switzerland.
Me, a nosy American, forgetting that we’re weird ppl with flipped `.` and `,` in decimals
can confirm not a single railroad in eastgermany we still use horses to come around
no but seriously why are u useing a like 60´s era map? even is u just type in “deutsche bahn network” every pic was better than this :c
Some comments on the railways in the UK.
It is indeed quite expensive, buying a ticket at the station to travel from Winchester (almost exactly centre at the south end of Britain) to London would cost me ~£21 (~€25).
Funnily enough, British trains are really popular, pre covid on a midday train journey from Winchester to London it would normally be impossible to find a seat and the hallways would be packed with people standing and sitting on the floor.
There are also loads and loads of small legacy stations that require constant maintenance to their infrastructure. Despite what were known as the “beeching cuts” in the 60s which closed 55% of stations and 30% of route miles, it is very common to have individual villages with there own stations.
This reflects the way in which the railways evolved, contrary to modern rail networks which focus on connection larger hubs and commuters. There was always a bigger focus on breadth rather than depth in the UK.
So… nobody thought to include Luxembourg? €0
In UK public transport is a mess, owned by different companies all private and expensive…
This would be correct for 1971 Germany, but not for today
I don’t get it.
I don’t get how the UK transportation system is “public”. Clearly private because I can’t fucking afford it.