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Re:Germany's 49-euro ticket resulted in significant modal sh... by server_man3000 on Saturday October 12, 2024 @04:37PM (#41822344)
There’s a happy medium somewhere though and the US doesn’t meet it at all. I can’t even take a bus from my neighborhood in a California city to the grocery store in a timely manner and it’s often cancelled
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Re:Germany's 49-euro ticket resulted in significant modal sh... by hilux on Saturday October 12, 2024 @04:54PM (#41822473)
Oh, I know - I live in Oakland. I think even here the population density is lower than in European cities. (It's definitely lower than in Asian mega-cities.)

But yes, I do wish California did better. People are used to bad transit, and have never visited Tokyo or even NYC, so expectations are low.

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