• PugJesus@lemmy.worldOP
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    23 hours ago

    The blind hope that somewhere in this world there is a functioning public transit system is all that keep me going some days. Let me have this

    • fishy@lemmy.today
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      2 hours ago

      I take the light rail into work from the suburbs of Seattle into downtown. Trains run every 7-8 minutes. They’re expanding it in all directions now. Only downside is that a lot of homeless ride the train because it’s cold as heck on the streets. That’s a societal problem though, not an issue with the train.

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      23 hours ago

      Tokyo I’ve heard. For sure not Europe. Halve of the scheduled trains didn’t run today in Belgium.

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      18 hours ago

      Japan is the MVP here. I live there and I literally have never seen a train not arrive exactly at the scheduled time. However “public” transport is privately owned so… Uh… Yeah, tradeoffs.

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          16 hours ago

          Is it expensive to ride?

          Yeah. It also stops running at around 11 or 12 so if you stay out late you just might find you can’t get back home.

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            Must pe nice. Here I was about to add that you can’t take a train to work if you might have to stay a bit late, but trains outside rush hour are one hour, then two hours apart, and stop way too early

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      18 hours ago

      I’ve been in Vienna from time to time, and it’s pretty good, 365€/year for the pass that gets you buses, trams and subways with unlimited access and no turnstiles anywhere, you just go and enter

      Schedules follow work hours and go from a subway every 2 minutes during peak hours to one every 15mins late at night

      You have night line buses for weekdays and on Saturday night public transport doesn’t shut down

      Coverage is good, you almost always have a bus or tram line less then 5 minutes of walking

      There are bike sharing places with 20 bikes each ~1km apart and they cost 60 cents for half an hour, or e-scooters in the designed locations which are basically everywhere (but being owned by companies they cost so much more then everything else)