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  • optional@feddit.orgtoich_iel@feddit.orgich☁✈iel
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    6 hours ago

    Die DuRöhre-Kommentarspalte bestand doch schon immer nur aus Trollen, Hassern und Verschwörungsgläubigen.

    Jedes DWD-Warnwetter-Video mit Hitzewarnungen voll mit Klimawandelleugnern. “35° im Juni waren doch vor 50 Jahren auch normals Frühlingswetter, Panikmache, wen wollt Ihr denn hier verarschen”. Die Warnvideos bei denen es um andere Unwetter geht sind seltsamerweise ganz anders, da wird nur über die nerdigen ModeratorInnen geschrieben.



  • We already have that, at least here in Hamburg it’s called Park+Ride. Parking spots next to many suburban Metro stations, the ticket costs 2€ per day or 100€ per year if combined with a monthly subscription for the train.

    That doesn’t prevent Hamburg from being clogged up every day though. The two reasons I think it’s not used by all those people that prefer standing in the traffic instead are “stupid” and “people”. The latter are good at being the former 😉








  • You really don’t know what international waterways are, do you. The Danube river is an international waterway, but that doesn’t mean that there is any border going through Vienna. It just means that the state the waterway belongs to has to allow free passage through their territory. Also, you never enter the international waterway, because there is a bridge over the waterway and guess what: The waterway is in the water. So much for knowing your shit.

    I really don’t care if you find any of my statements wild. I don’t care about you at all. As far as I’m concerned you can keep your delusions about how great the USA are and how tiny the rest of the world is. Just stop bothering me with that BS.

    Farewell, have a great life.







  • You’re right, that’s a wild comment trying to exclude Scandinavia from Europe.

    Why wouldn’t I want to include Scandinavia. It’s part of mainland Europe, reachable by train from Portugal without ever crossing an EU external border. As opposed to Alaska which is not part of the mainland US. I didn’t include Alaska for the same reason I didn’t include Hawaii, Greenland or the French Southern and Antarctic Lands.
    Btw. Stockholm alone has more inhabitants than all of Alaska.



  • I can only talk for Germany:

    Regional trains (in the 200km range) are usually commissioned by the municipalities and train companies then get paid for providing that service. Of course it depends on the route, but on average the municipalities pay around 50% of the cost and the other half is paid for by fares. They do that, because having a good train connection is good for the economy and lowers congestion, so they are obviously interested in having good tracks. There’s a lot of smaller companies there, but the push comes from the municipalities. Also for one route there’s usually one company to choose from, so no competition on the customer level.

    Long Distance trains are for profit, but there are only very few companies competing with the state-owned DB Fernverkehr on a handful of routes.

    So I don’t think competition alone helps. The German rail network is in ruins btw. Maybe not in comparison to the US, but in comparison to the 1980s when there was no competition on the rail at all. The main reason for that is that we had incompetent carbrains as ministers of transportation for the majority of the last 30 years, leading to a massive underfunding.
    That has slightly changed with the Ampel government in 2021 and we may hope that the new conservative minister keeps going in the same direction, as in times of war the rail network is valued even by conservatives. But fixing the errors of the past will take us at least a decade of construction work and delay.


  • That’s a good point, the population in Europe is much more evenly spread. But that still doesn’t explain why a train journey from San Francisco to Los Angeles has to be 12 hours long.

    Also, I guess you guys do not regularly travel from New York to Los Angeles for a weekend trip, just as we Europeans don’t usually do that with Stockholm and Barcelona (which is a distance the average European would also travel by plane).
    We do however travel from Frankfurt to Strasbourg for a day trip, and of course we do that by train.