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Factually untrue, I live in a very large German city and going to office by car is completely normal. Where are you even getting this obviously false informatio

Factually untrue, I live in a very large German city and going to office by car is completely normal. Where are you even getting this obviously false information from? Are you frequenting r/de on reddit or what? However, if we simply reduce the hyperbole "next to impossible" to something like "uneconomic" or "inconvenient" then we are getting closer to the truth. The only exception which MIGHT be somewhat close to impossible is Freiburg which is comparatively restrictive towards cars. Its population consists largely of economically weak students though, so it fits the crowd. Taking the car to commute to the very center of cities is an economically senseless thing to do in large urban areas in Germany unless your commute is from the outside of the city. Public transport and bike infrastrucutre is mostly good enough for most people despite large room for improvement, especially when looking at Netherlands or Denmark for comparison. This is also something that is VASTLY different from American ways of providing mobility, the situation is not comparable at all due to the average commute distances involved which are orders of magnitude higher in the US.

xxs 4y ago
I am tempted to reply to that - zero idea where reddit (esp. /r/de) has come from. My experience with Germany, it's one of the most decentralized countries in Europe, going by train is pretty normal (parking near various train stations, outside the city is quite standard as well). "Next to impossible" comes from the traffic and how expensive (along how lacking) the parking in city centers is. I have lived in 4 different European counties and visited almost all of them. Germany wise (not lived) - I'd not consider Frankfurt, Berlin, Stuttgart or Munich a place I'd like to drive to work every day. Dusseldorf was better, but still. Many EU capitals are pretty much hell just to drive through - I am hard pressed to say, "yay this one was ok". Most of the larger cities are just not designed to the amount of cars there are - the roads are relatively narrow too. (Also the parallels to the US are funny - I have lived all my life in Europe, visited the USA but that's all)

xxs 4y ago

I am tempted to reply to that - zero idea where reddit (esp. /r/de) has come from. My experience with Germany, it's one of the most decentralized countries in Europe, going by train is pretty normal (parking near various train stations, outside the city is quite standard as well). "Next to impossible" comes from the traffic and how expensive (along how lacking) the parking in city centers is. I have lived in 4 different European counties and visited almost all of them. Germany wise (not lived) - I'd not consider Frankfurt, Berlin, Stuttgart or Munich a place I'd like to drive to work every day. Dusseldorf was better, but still. Many EU capitals are pretty much hell just to drive through - I am hard pressed to say, "yay this one was ok". Most of the larger cities are just not designed to the amount of cars there are - the roads are relatively narrow too. (Also the parallels to the US are funny - I have lived all my life in Europe, visited the USA but that's all)