Would be great is Ireland was just Germany and the whole EU was Norway and I was bouncing around on the moon with a 6 foot willy
Sure would
Live in Germany. Basically there is a flat rate. You pay 9€ and you can travel all over Germany for the whole month. Valid June, July and August.This includes buses,trams, trains High speed ICE excluded but regional trains are included. It’s an insane deal.
Sure isn’t the Luas already free?
This would work in Germany given they have a large multi-modal network both locally and nationally. We have fuck-all public transport networks in this country.
One point to mention here is that the German regional trains have apparently become terrible in recent years.
(Supposed to be something to do with them starting to privatise the trains, even though they decided not to in the end after everyone complained.)
I was in Germany recently and have personal experience in this. 2+ hour delays for no reason, and without even a word, just passengers left stranded in the middle of nowhere for two hours.
We don’t have enough trains in Ireland, and we especially don’t have enough routes (e.g. can’t get from Galway to Sligo without going to Dublin first), but at least the trains we do have are generally quite reliable, the carriages are quite good quality these days, and if there *is* a problem, they will organise a bus to take the passengers the rest of the journey.
Somehow, it seems that there’s something wrong with the world when our Irish trains are more reliable than German ones.
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Fares were just reduced here a few weeks ago
That would be awesome!!!
Can’t do that while paying 100 k salaries
be nice if we had trains
Would be great is Ireland was just Germany and the whole EU was Norway and I was bouncing around on the moon with a 6 foot willy
Sure would
Live in Germany. Basically there is a flat rate. You pay 9€ and you can travel all over Germany for the whole month. Valid June, July and August.This includes buses,trams, trains High speed ICE excluded but regional trains are included. It’s an insane deal.
Sure isn’t the Luas already free?
This would work in Germany given they have a large multi-modal network both locally and nationally. We have fuck-all public transport networks in this country.
One point to mention here is that the German regional trains have apparently become terrible in recent years.
(Supposed to be something to do with them starting to privatise the trains, even though they decided not to in the end after everyone complained.)
I was in Germany recently and have personal experience in this. 2+ hour delays for no reason, and without even a word, just passengers left stranded in the middle of nowhere for two hours.
We don’t have enough trains in Ireland, and we especially don’t have enough routes (e.g. can’t get from Galway to Sligo without going to Dublin first), but at least the trains we do have are generally quite reliable, the carriages are quite good quality these days, and if there *is* a problem, they will organise a bus to take the passengers the rest of the journey.
Somehow, it seems that there’s something wrong with the world when our Irish trains are more reliable than German ones.