Genuine Question. Even if I look at hungarian Transport, and they to this day use trains from the UdSSR, they come more consistantly then the DB.
They are really Bad sometimes, with like 20 seperate prices: Theres the bayernwald ticket that only works in the alps, then theres the official ticket to the destination. Theres a special offer, but only in the very special APP. You can use a d-ticket, but look! Some random ass slum in the middle of the worlds ass dosent accept that, but it does the MVV zone Tickets. But then you need the MVV zone 11-M, a ticket to the beginning to the Nürnberg zones, and a ticket for the Nürnberg zones.
And yet this shit is better than americas rails? How?
Where I live there are 3 mass transit options. The airports, inter-city busses, and Amtrack. We generally get around by car.
Amtrack costs as much as taking a plane but takes as long (or longer) than the busses and is really only a viable option in the North East US. The US does have an extensive rail network that covers a most of the US, but it’s mostly used for heavy freight. Most towns and cities don’t have a passenger rail terminal anymore. We only have this option only because we are between Atlanta and New Orleans. Most places in the US don’t have this option. Here’s a map of the US rail network. If you go to layers you can hide everything except Amtrak routes to see what I mean. Link doesn’t work in Firefox as a heads up.
The inter-city busses are usually only once a day (sometimes only once a week) and take forever to get anywhere and often have long layovers on the way. But they do go almost everywhere in the country. Company is called Greyhound if you want to look them up.
And finally, we have the local regional airport. Imagine what Berlin might have been like during the middle of the Cold War. It’s probably not too far off the situation at our airports. Show ID at the entrance, Strip, Walk through the scanner while your stuff is riffled through, dress, Show ID again at the gate, and pray you don’t get picked for a more thorough search or harassed by TSA which might cause you to miss your flight. Granted, I haven’t flown in over a decade, but my last plane trip made me decide to never fly again if I could at all help it.
Your description of flying is still accurate.
They added an option to pay the gestapo so you don’t have to take off your shoes. That’s the only change in the last decade.
I would never consider that BS, so I forgot about that heh