Re:One rail ticket for all cities in Germany – 49 euro per m...
by mytailorisrich on Sunday March 05, 2023 @01:32PM
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I am in Europe and at country level public transport will never beat individual transport overall. In specific dense urban environments where cars can be extremely inconvenient (including because all the offices are packed in a few towers all at the same location), yes but again in the general case a bus will never be able to be as convenient as my own vehicle parked right outside my front door.
And yes this is a technical and practicability challenge on top of being prohibitively expensive to run.
Re:One rail ticket for all cities in Germany – 49 euro per m...
by louwrentius on Monday March 06, 2023 @02:14PM
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Trading some convenience for a much better world in every conceivable metric is just more important.
Re:One rail ticket for all cities in Germany – 49 euro per m...
by mytailorisrich on Monday March 06, 2023 @04:37PM
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Every conceivable metric except convenience, then... That sounds like a regression to me.
Re:One rail ticket for all cities in Germany – 49 euro per m...
by louwrentius on Tuesday March 07, 2023 @07:20AM
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You know that a ton of people do exactly this: travel to a train station or bus/tram stop and they are fine with it. Lots of people don’t have cars.
You seem to argue in bad faith as I have to point out the obvious to you.
The whole idea is that public transport would be preferable in terms of time, comfort and cost. It can be done, there is no technical challenge whatsoever, it’s all politics.
In many cases traffic is so bad that cars are just as bad. But the key thing is to sacrifice / build lanes exclusive to public transport (busses) because those lanes effectively are so much more efficient.
We have a ton of electric busses already, which makes such transport even more ideal.