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Germany is a dense country with a developed rail network, you are never far from a train station. Bear in mind that this includes also city transportation, whic
by Glawen 2y ago
Germany is a dense country with a developed rail network, you are never far from a train station.
Bear in mind that this includes also city transportation, which makes it a great deal.
My gripe with the ticket is that traveling with bikes in regional train became a gamble, you never know if you can get in as there is so many people inside already (and even more when the previous train got cancelled, which happens a lot...)
- pjmlp 2y agoYeah, but doesn't make the Bahn more punctual, or reduce those comute times from 3h down to the 1h that is possible by car, not having to jump across four connections, with related delays and dropped connections.
- panick21_ 2y agoThe 49 Euro ticket is about local transportation, when you are talking about 3h you are talking about intercity transportation not covered by this ticket. Intercity travel has lots of punctuality problems but many of the local train operations and S-Bahn are often much superior. At least in places where I have been, like Karlsruhe, Berlin, Hamburg the local transport has been very good. Not everything in live is about long distance communing. > 3h down to the 1h That completely depends on the details of your route and ignores lots of possible aspects. As a universal statement its just outright false.
- heftig 2y agoNo, they're talking about the local connections that are covered by the ticket. They're that bad. I've had similar experiences commuting into Cologne where it's 40 minutes by car or 2 hours by train, and that's without delays. In the rush hours it's 60 minutes by car. A missed train connection adds another half hour.
- Glawen 2y agoIn that case, you better take the car. I have 40min car commute or 1h30 by train, of course i'm taking my car in that situation.
- dgellow 2y ago3h, that’s like Hamburg-Berlin, and would not be covered by the Deutschland ticket anyway
- pjmlp 2y agoI wish, more like 80km, with the luck to jump between bus, two connecting trains, plus bus on the destination, and better not lose any of those connections.
- blueflow 2y agoThe density is not that great, its not good enough if you don't have a car.
- The_Colonel 2y ago> you are never far from a train station What exactly do you mean by that? "never far" as in "always within walking distance"? That would be very wrong. The other factor is that frequency of service is low outside of major cities. At the need to change and a small-distance trip can take a couple of hours.
- BlueTemplar 2y agoI wonder, would a foldable bike be a solution ?