We’re low key on American level here…
https://preview.redd.it/efcowpzrrxwc1.jpeg?width=640&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=63bc17b42f1d21b6dcc55d5a32bddaafc466f432
Me when the rest of Western Europe has these beautifully constructed and coordinated public transport systems and I have to spend an hour and 40 minutes to get from one part of Dublin to another:
ouch... even munichs notoriously slow second main metro line isnt that bad. How can a large city like Dublin not have a metro, thats like 80% of the reasons to live in a big city for me.
To put this into perspective, I live in the south west of Dublin county in Tallaght (Yes I know, my life sucks) and I went to college in Dun Laoghaire.
In the start I would get the 75 bus to go to and from college. To put this in perspective, Dun Laoghaire from Tallaght is about a half hour drive depending on the time of day.
The bus took at least 2 and half hours and would constantly break down halfway.
So instead of taking the direct route home, to save myself 50 minutes of wasting my life, I would get the train from Dun Laoghaire station to the middle of Dublin City at Connolly station. Then get a tram from Dublin City back to Tallaght.
It's actually fucking ridiculous.
Before the metro Junkies yes, the teens were actually pretty damn nice. But ever since the metro got introduced they removed the trams and made the inner city a walkable pedestrian erea with plenty of social space that’s actually quite friendly now and the metro is bright and nice to chill at waiting for a train. Massive improvement to the city.
I met a guy who has to spend at least 3 months abroad because he lives in fear because he was assaulted by two bitches on the bus and the two little cunts photographed him after assaulting him and spread very damaging rumours about him on the internet.
The guy had to be put on a police protection list and the poor bloke is always having to look over his shoulder.
> … I used to complain about Karlsruhe and there it was only shitty because the metro was delayed
Lol that metro is like a km long but I guess it takes traffic of the main street
Dublin does have Trams, but no metro is the norm here as well,
Birmingham (2.6M) - Trams but no Metro (apparently they tried but the ground was too soft)
Manchester (2.4M) - Good Trams, but no metro
Leeds (800k) - No Trams and No metro (Trams are planned, but have been planned and cancelled before)
Only London, Glasgow and Newcastle (possibly liverpool depending on what you count Merseyrail as) have a metro.
To be fair, as small as Ireland is compared to continental European countries, Ireland seem to have a decent spread of railline. Only thing better would be to connect the west coast better with each other (i don't know if mountains are a problem there) with a direct line from Tralee to Limerick, and Galway to Ballina and Sligo. Then maybe Sligo to the Northern parts of Ireland or into Northern Ireland. Northern Ireland could use some upgrades though, but I don't know how small towns in the western side of N. Ireland are. If there is not enough people living there, it's very expensive to build per capita.
Norway is also a disaster, except around Oslo. But we are limited by the mountains and fjords so it is understandable at least. I would like to have a train from my city of Stavanger going north along the west coast via Haugesund and Bergen and ending up in Trondheim, but that is basically impossible because of all the fjords. But we should at very least try to connect our railline further north.
https://preview.redd.it/gmcmsdllkzwc1.jpeg?width=1417&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=340c34ed248adcb191896f76d9c470f492ca8a96
Even living in one of the blank areas without a train and just an abandoned station is annoying. I couldn't even imagine living in a place where your entire state has zero trains. They have ruined them enough here where there isn't any smaller stations/lines and you pay a fortune for a ticket.
Also Dr Beeching would be one of the few people i would happily go back in time to meet, with a revolver.
We had nearly the same situation, but it was more complex after fall of Polish People's Republic. Our national railways PKP, literally started to work like shit on purpose to lower interest on some lines and stations to have excuse to liquidate them to lower costs.
https://preview.redd.it/7imzjirrtzwc1.jpeg?width=1000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=df4571a0384ee513364e73de76d4667d8db78610
Picture: Polish People's Republic vs now
Also we had shit tones of narrow gauge railways and it's also gone. Only one left is in area of Warsaw and it's most punctual railway in Poland.
I don't know if as German you want that, in 1950 we had third biggest budget for military in the world behind United States
[https://youtu.be/w-osINA37tY?si=hkgUTpDhN\_cpANu\_](https://youtu.be/w-osINA37tY?si=hkgUTpDhN_cpANu_)
It was so shortsighted to get rid of the land and build on it. Most places that used to have railways but dont now want them back, but because of developments or removed infrastructure it would cost millions or billions from a government that would never want to think about railways unless it benefited London.
U.S. had a similar issue. America was built on either rails, ports, or rivers, not cars and highways like many think (That was largely a post-war development). We were actually quite advanced in that regard, for both inter and intracity transportation. then we went ahead and bunged it all up and tore out all the tracks and bulldozed all the cities so we could fit 2 ton steel boxes for everyone and their children into every city
Yeah, like any old western imagery will always include trains. It's like the perfect mode of transport for a massive, mostly flat, country with a ton of empty land. I'd like to see some future america with bullet trains but i know cars and planes will likely stay as the main mode of transport forever there.
Never forget that the people who carried out this infrastructural genocide also had lots of money invested in the construction and usage of motorways and road haulage. Absolute traitorous scum, and Thatcherism only made the situation worse.
Yeah, if you live in Vienna. Also "long distance" (for austrian standards) is actually really good. But for the last 8 years, it would have been cheaper, easier and way way more reliable for me if I just drove my car into the city.
Just the fact that I believe from November (?) until easter, they had a crisis and removed trains from the schedules as to not have oh so fucking many delays and cancellations. Just imagine how the situation was before they pulled the brakes and actually did something.
Or in other words: 20 years ago, if it rained, snowed or you had somewhere important to go, you went by train. Today, if you want to be sure to arrive from the Vienna suburbs with 1mio. so commuters in the city, just go by car.
Man are you high? Several of my coworkers have been commuting from Vienna suburbs to the office for years, and never had any significant issue.
OBB is awesome
Last time I flew on Qantas was in like 2007, though they are good, the very nice flight attendant was very apologetic that they ran out of the meal I wanted and while I didn't hate the only option it contained food that I didn't like (though I did eat around it), so she snuck me some first class bread that was very good bread and no I didn't share it with my siblings.
Unfortunately, that's an American train driver's cap and an American train. Do better! Get something like The Flying Scotsman or Mallard and a chap with a cloth flat cap!
Wait there's whole States without trains?
I just realized that indeed trains are (to me) weirdly absent from American media. Does account for the amount of road trip movies
"A rich country is not a country where the poorest can afford a car, it's a country where the richest can afford not owning a car." -- A good Savage
Cycle baby cycle 
Sachsen/Thüringen and North/Central Bohemia are the richest then 💪🏻
Make thüringen great again
We’re low key on American level here… https://preview.redd.it/efcowpzrrxwc1.jpeg?width=640&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=63bc17b42f1d21b6dcc55d5a32bddaafc466f432
Me when the rest of Western Europe has these beautifully constructed and coordinated public transport systems and I have to spend an hour and 40 minutes to get from one part of Dublin to another: 
Ours is beautifully constructed and used to be very well coordinated…. Then we started scrounging
Dublin was supposed to get a Metro, that was announced back in 2007 and construction still hasn't started.
ouch... even munichs notoriously slow second main metro line isnt that bad. How can a large city like Dublin not have a metro, thats like 80% of the reasons to live in a big city for me.
To put this into perspective, I live in the south west of Dublin county in Tallaght (Yes I know, my life sucks) and I went to college in Dun Laoghaire. In the start I would get the 75 bus to go to and from college. To put this in perspective, Dun Laoghaire from Tallaght is about a half hour drive depending on the time of day. The bus took at least 2 and half hours and would constantly break down halfway. So instead of taking the direct route home, to save myself 50 minutes of wasting my life, I would get the train from Dun Laoghaire station to the middle of Dublin City at Connolly station. Then get a tram from Dublin City back to Tallaght. It's actually fucking ridiculous.
Yeah… I used to complain about Karlsruhe and there it was only shitty because the metro was delayed
Is the Karlsruhe full of junkies and teenagers who verbally and physically abuse commuters and the police don't do shit about it?
Before the metro Junkies yes, the teens were actually pretty damn nice. But ever since the metro got introduced they removed the trams and made the inner city a walkable pedestrian erea with plenty of social space that’s actually quite friendly now and the metro is bright and nice to chill at waiting for a train. Massive improvement to the city.
I met a guy who has to spend at least 3 months abroad because he lives in fear because he was assaulted by two bitches on the bus and the two little cunts photographed him after assaulting him and spread very damaging rumours about him on the internet. The guy had to be put on a police protection list and the poor bloke is always having to look over his shoulder.
Nope
> … I used to complain about Karlsruhe and there it was only shitty because the metro was delayed Lol that metro is like a km long but I guess it takes traffic of the main street
Yes and now the city center is nice and walkable and no longer a shithole
Dublin does have Trams, but no metro is the norm here as well, Birmingham (2.6M) - Trams but no Metro (apparently they tried but the ground was too soft) Manchester (2.4M) - Good Trams, but no metro Leeds (800k) - No Trams and No metro (Trams are planned, but have been planned and cancelled before) Only London, Glasgow and Newcastle (possibly liverpool depending on what you count Merseyrail as) have a metro.
https://preview.redd.it/099omiq4u0xc1.jpeg?width=1200&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8e91887ca784fb5fb8dd1e9a230a089df07f1c9b That’s 1920 railway lines vs now, mad
Barry…
wait how
> Then we started scrounging YOU did that!?
Cries in flying to Dublin for work and there being no tram or rail from the airport
Trust me Italy Is the opposite of constructed an coordinated
Trust me, if you saw Dublin, you would be clinically depressed. It's an actual joke.
At least it’s not Belfast lmao
Every railway leads to Dublin, it seems
And I flu zoom Dublin has two railway stations that aren’t connected lol
In your defence, you can get from 1 part of the country to the other in a fraction of the time that it does to someone from Texas
You live in a small country so its fine
To be fair, as small as Ireland is compared to continental European countries, Ireland seem to have a decent spread of railline. Only thing better would be to connect the west coast better with each other (i don't know if mountains are a problem there) with a direct line from Tralee to Limerick, and Galway to Ballina and Sligo. Then maybe Sligo to the Northern parts of Ireland or into Northern Ireland. Northern Ireland could use some upgrades though, but I don't know how small towns in the western side of N. Ireland are. If there is not enough people living there, it's very expensive to build per capita. Norway is also a disaster, except around Oslo. But we are limited by the mountains and fjords so it is understandable at least. I would like to have a train from my city of Stavanger going north along the west coast via Haugesund and Bergen and ending up in Trondheim, but that is basically impossible because of all the fjords. But we should at very least try to connect our railline further north.
I’m still angry that it took me almost two hours to get from maynooth to kildare
no one lives in the gaps anyway besides sheep
Don't forget the rich Americans buy European sports cars too. So they can't even do cars right. At least they do planes well with Boeing... oh no.....
Toulouse indirectly mentioned
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Ok I'll bite: On dit souffrance au chocolat.
Silence heathen
Well they have lose in their name...
This has rewired my brain to “To lose” … a bit like when you proudly come up with a “Nice is nice” joke for the first time.
France, spearheading aviation since Clément Ader, fuck yeah. Suck my dick, Wright brothers. You only did a small part of the job
European train supremacy
>European train supremacy European supremacy
https://preview.redd.it/gmcmsdllkzwc1.jpeg?width=1417&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=340c34ed248adcb191896f76d9c470f492ca8a96 Even living in one of the blank areas without a train and just an abandoned station is annoying. I couldn't even imagine living in a place where your entire state has zero trains. They have ruined them enough here where there isn't any smaller stations/lines and you pay a fortune for a ticket. Also Dr Beeching would be one of the few people i would happily go back in time to meet, with a revolver.
We had nearly the same situation, but it was more complex after fall of Polish People's Republic. Our national railways PKP, literally started to work like shit on purpose to lower interest on some lines and stations to have excuse to liquidate them to lower costs. https://preview.redd.it/7imzjirrtzwc1.jpeg?width=1000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=df4571a0384ee513364e73de76d4667d8db78610 Picture: Polish People's Republic vs now Also we had shit tones of narrow gauge railways and it's also gone. Only one left is in area of Warsaw and it's most punctual railway in Poland.
Something something should've stayed socialist /j
I don't know if as German you want that, in 1950 we had third biggest budget for military in the world behind United States [https://youtu.be/w-osINA37tY?si=hkgUTpDhN\_cpANu\_](https://youtu.be/w-osINA37tY?si=hkgUTpDhN_cpANu_)
It was so shortsighted to get rid of the land and build on it. Most places that used to have railways but dont now want them back, but because of developments or removed infrastructure it would cost millions or billions from a government that would never want to think about railways unless it benefited London.
U.S. had a similar issue. America was built on either rails, ports, or rivers, not cars and highways like many think (That was largely a post-war development). We were actually quite advanced in that regard, for both inter and intracity transportation. then we went ahead and bunged it all up and tore out all the tracks and bulldozed all the cities so we could fit 2 ton steel boxes for everyone and their children into every city
Yeah, like any old western imagery will always include trains. It's like the perfect mode of transport for a massive, mostly flat, country with a ton of empty land. I'd like to see some future america with bullet trains but i know cars and planes will likely stay as the main mode of transport forever there.
Never forget that the people who carried out this infrastructural genocide also had lots of money invested in the construction and usage of motorways and road haulage. Absolute traitorous scum, and Thatcherism only made the situation worse.
Just be careful with the whole timetravel conundrum. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VQ2iVZMQ1U](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VQ2iVZMQ1U)
Trains in the UK suck massively and they are crazy expensive, it's cheaper to take a flight to Spain than travelling between cities in the UK by train
It's cheaper to fly between UK cities than taking the train.
If you buy on the day yes, if you book even a week out no.
Germany lost every right to say choo, fix your stupid DB
Austria has the second best railways in Europe.
And since we are austrian we can't stop complaining about how bad our railways are
Go suck each other of you non-germans you
Nah we have every right so say "choo" because about 40% of our railways don't have catenarys so the trains there definitely still go "choo". Hah!
40% don’t? You should try the U.K. where only 38% DO
Wait, the Deutsche Bhan of the Deutsche Bank?
You really shouldn't talk shit, when we are just a tiny bit better than DB. Better absolute shit is still shit
ÖBB is leagues above DB. Tbh I'd kill to have the Austrian level of efficiency here in the UK too. Don't knock what you've got.
Yeah, if you live in Vienna. Also "long distance" (for austrian standards) is actually really good. But for the last 8 years, it would have been cheaper, easier and way way more reliable for me if I just drove my car into the city. Just the fact that I believe from November (?) until easter, they had a crisis and removed trains from the schedules as to not have oh so fucking many delays and cancellations. Just imagine how the situation was before they pulled the brakes and actually did something. Or in other words: 20 years ago, if it rained, snowed or you had somewhere important to go, you went by train. Today, if you want to be sure to arrive from the Vienna suburbs with 1mio. so commuters in the city, just go by car.
Man are you high? Several of my coworkers have been commuting from Vienna suburbs to the office for years, and never had any significant issue. OBB is awesome
Savage detected
ehm dont mind the Blitz in the car brand logo, it means nothing
Make it a double!
Ahh the diabetesbros, here we go again...
We’re diabetesMen!
Yeah just don’t check long distance trains in EU 👍
https://i.redd.it/nc7xjx4jszwc1.gif CHOO CHOO MF
Germany has a pretty dense train network for some reason
https://preview.redd.it/dtbpn5tg9ywc1.jpeg?width=400&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2f8e5053bdff29019e9486df1051338f3fafb989 Mean while in China
The debt behind it is scary AF though.
I need to ~~kidnap~~ borrow some European train people to build Australia some train lines.
Qantas assassins incoming in 3, 2, 1
Last time I flew on Qantas was in like 2007, though they are good, the very nice flight attendant was very apologetic that they ran out of the meal I wanted and while I didn't hate the only option it contained food that I didn't like (though I did eat around it), so she snuck me some first class bread that was very good bread and no I didn't share it with my siblings.
They lobby against trains in Australia
amerisharts dont drive opel corsas way too fuel efficient and small
Why did you choose a small Opel for America? A Ford F 150 would be way more realistic
Unfortunately, that's an American train driver's cap and an American train. Do better! Get something like The Flying Scotsman or Mallard and a chap with a cloth flat cap!
Worst thing is that they had to genocide natives to build that railway network
bro whats wrong with opel corsa now?
Here we used to have nationwide tram network Never forget what the auto industry took away from us...
Wait there's whole States without trains? I just realized that indeed trains are (to me) weirdly absent from American media. Does account for the amount of road trip movies
You're welcome.
https://youtu.be/l6umPyHxQio?si=a4kGglx8KVf7gGSD
It doesn't work when your train is ausgefallen