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Re:Berlin-Munich high-speed train services carry 2M passenge... by rurban on Sunday June 17, 2018 @02:59AM (#17331211)
In Germany you now take the bus, which is about 20 eur for this direction, and with the same speed as the "high-speed" train, and faster than the plane. Only with the car is faster, but you cannot work in the car. A ticket to Amsterdam is even 14 eur, but this takes 10hrs, compared to a 2hrs flight.
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Re:Berlin-Munich high-speed train services carry 2M passenge... by kayoone on Sunday June 17, 2018 @03:11AM (#17331246)
How would a Bus do Berlin - Munich in under 4 hours like this highspeed train ? Even by car it is over 5 hours. Bus is an okay low cost alternative, but just very slow.
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Re:Berlin-Munich high-speed train services carry 2M passenge... by fritkot on Sunday June 17, 2018 @06:01AM (#17331668)
- The only reason anyone takes a bus on such a long route is because they train or flight is too expensive.

- "same speed as the "high-speed" train" - are you deluded

- "Only with the car is faster" - yeah, if I drive the kind of car that can average 180 km/h.

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Re:Berlin-Munich high-speed train services carry 2M passenge... by Grue3 on Sunday June 17, 2018 @04:17PM (#17334117)
>if I drive the kind of car that can average 180 km/h.

I mean, there are no speed limits on Autobahn so nobody would stop you...

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Re:Berlin-Munich high-speed train services carry 2M passenge... by tatami on Monday June 18, 2018 @05:02AM (#17336779)
There are ten thousands of other cars and trucks. I'd call it lucky when you can get an average over 100 km/h if not in the middle of the night.
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Re:Berlin-Munich high-speed train services carry 2M passenge... by sveme on Sunday June 17, 2018 @04:29AM (#17331456)
Flixbus takes around seven hours, traffic jams on that heavily-travelled route notwithstanding. Another example: Hanover -> Munich is ten hours by bus last I checked and 4.5 hrs by train. Bus is only usable for the price-conscious, i.e., no business travellers.
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Re:Berlin-Munich high-speed train services carry 2M passenge... by jsilence on Sunday June 17, 2018 @05:58AM (#17331663)
In some asian countries like myanmar there are very comfy airconditioned night busses. are there similar offerings in the bus system in germany?
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Re:Berlin-Munich high-speed train services carry 2M passenge... by majewsky on Sunday June 17, 2018 @03:57PM (#17334000)
I used a bus to go from Dresden to Wien (and back) overnight a few years ago. This experience convinced me to never ever do something like that again.

1. I absolutely could not sleep on a bus that makes frequent turns on country roads.

2. On the way back to Germany, we got stuck for 2 hours in a passport check, because customs found a Bulgarian family on the bus that had previously been extradited, and there was a long argument before they left the bus.

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Re:Berlin-Munich high-speed train services carry 2M passenge... by fritkot on Sunday June 17, 2018 @06:02AM (#17331670)
There are buses that travel at night, but they're not comfy. i.e. they are not designed to be comfortable night-mode travel. In general, distances are too small to consider overnight trips. Since there aren't many good roads in Myanmar, trips take forever, which makes overnight travel sensible.
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Re:Berlin-Munich high-speed train services carry 2M passenge... by gpvos on Sunday June 17, 2018 @07:35AM (#17331937)
I'd never be able to do substantial work on a bus. A train, easily. A plane, maybe.
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