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I took a trip to Europe last month and watching America fail at all manners of transportation is embarrassing
by ujkhsjkdhf234 1y ago
I took a trip to Europe last month and watching America fail at all manners of transportation is embarrassing
- TulliusCicero 1y agoHey, at least we're ahead in self-driving cars! But yes, public transit in the states is rather pathetic.
- breakingcups 1y agoThey can even go through specially bored tunnels! Oh wait...
- Holo-epiphyte 1y ago[flagged]
- omnimus 1y agoThat's not exactly common. You might say it's very very rare. Probably as rare as in US.
- ujkhsjkdhf234 1y ago[flagged]
- joshcsimmons 1y ago[flagged]
- spacemadness 1y agoTrust me it’s embarrassing for a lot of us that have traveled to countries with decent rail travel. Part of it is the shamelessness of the car industry for lobbying for decades to shackle everyone to a car. Now the car is an engrained part of American culture and makes our cities much more ugly, isolating, loud, and dangerous than they need be.
- pb7 1y agoYou must not travel very often then. European public transit is extremely unreliable due to strikes. I, as a tourist, have been screwed over countless times having to pay $150 to take an Uber to an airport that is nowhere near the city it's meant to service. It's so unreliable that in some cities the brand new trains have displays that show which lines are currently having strikes. Now that's embarrassing.
- testfrequency 1y agoYou can just say Germany
- dang 1y agoOk, but please don't post flamebait, including nationalistic flamebait, to HN threads. It just leads to flamewar hell. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html