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I love this comment as you complain about waiting 10 minutes for a train. European transportation is a marvel.

• vladvasiliu 6y ago
  Well, those 10 minutes is say 8 trains passing on which you can't get, because they're all filled to the brim with people. And the one you manage to get on will also be so full that you'll have to push your way on it. I absolutely loath this and I'm relatively tall. I can't imagine what it's like being shorter than average and / or overweight. You can of course forget about carrying any kind of bag. Note I'm specifically talking about the metro inside of the city of Paris proper and some of its immediate suburbs. That's roughly a circle of say 20 km diameter. The "suburban trains" we have around here (the RER and a buch of similar other lines with a different name) do not run as often, even during peak rush hour. But they also get filled to the brim with people, except on those travel time is more around 1h instead of 10 minutes, so you get to really enjoy getting pressed together. Bonus points for there being no ventilation whatsoever (and I mean ventilation, as in moving air, not specifically air conditioning, which of course, hasn't reached these parts).