Fortunately, until recently, I could sit on the bus and read if we were stuck in traffic. These days I'm hardly aware of road works or accidents slowing things down. Although some of our bus routes have recently vanished which is a bit concerning!
Bus routes? What are bus routes? Well, I'm joking. There are some buses here but if I want to go anywhere, I need a whole day to get back, if at all. So, hubby sits behind the wheel and moans about other drivers and often exclaims "I wish I had a tank". LOL
I thought that German public transport was very good... I guess that you live in 'the back of beyond'? I know that our rural transport system is *very* poor!
The best public transport I've known was when I working in London & lived on the outskirts. It was brilliant. Any time, day or night, you could go anywhere you wanted and quite cheaply too. Big city/Capital rules I guess...!
Your husbands tank comment made me think of a Kenny Everitt sketch on his TV show. Frustrated by the lack of parking he bought a Sherman tank and when he couldn't find a slot simply parked on top of another car crushing it under his tracks. I'd liked to have seen a parking warden try & clamp him!! [lol]
I think German public transport still livse from its great reputation from the times before privatisation, it has deteriorated. It might still be better than that of many other countries.
And no, we don't really live in the "back of beyond". Our town has 30,000 inhabitants and a lot of factories that employ people from everywhere in the area.
And don't get me started on large national or international trips. My youngest son lives in Brussels, it takes us around four to five hours by car to get there. The last time he came to visit us and took the train, he needed 12 hours to get back, including a trip by some of his Belgian friends picking him up from the Netherlands. But the trouble had started in Germany when all the large international trains got cancelled and he had to use some smaller ones and change several times.
Ah.... Privatisation. That says it *all* really. Take a perfectly usable system (even with its flaws), sell it off to the highest bidder, watch them dismantle things to make as much money as quickly as possible, put the prices up, cut services, run it into the ground and then get bailed out by the government... It's been happening here ever since Thatcher... They never learn - although there is some *talk* of re-nationalising the Railways. About bloody time I say! We have one of the most inefficient and expensive railway systems in Europe. Thankfully I don't need to use it very much these days...
I'd have thought that Germany would be more sensible about such things!
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You sound like my husband. LOL
Fortunately, until recently, I could sit on the bus and read if we were stuck in traffic. These days I'm hardly aware of road works or accidents slowing things down. Although some of our bus routes have recently vanished which is a bit concerning!
Bus routes? What are bus routes? Well, I'm joking. There are some buses here but if I want to go anywhere, I need a whole day to get back, if at all. So, hubby sits behind the wheel and moans about other drivers and often exclaims "I wish I had a tank". LOL
I thought that German public transport was very good... I guess that you live in 'the back of beyond'? I know that our rural transport system is *very* poor!
The best public transport I've known was when I working in London & lived on the outskirts. It was brilliant. Any time, day or night, you could go anywhere you wanted and quite cheaply too. Big city/Capital rules I guess...!
Your husbands tank comment made me think of a Kenny Everitt sketch on his TV show. Frustrated by the lack of parking he bought a Sherman tank and when he couldn't find a slot simply parked on top of another car crushing it under his tracks. I'd liked to have seen a parking warden try & clamp him!! [lol]
Hahaha, that would have been an idea.
I think German public transport still livse from its great reputation from the times before privatisation, it has deteriorated. It might still be better than that of many other countries.
And no, we don't really live in the "back of beyond". Our town has 30,000 inhabitants and a lot of factories that employ people from everywhere in the area.
And don't get me started on large national or international trips. My youngest son lives in Brussels, it takes us around four to five hours by car to get there. The last time he came to visit us and took the train, he needed 12 hours to get back, including a trip by some of his Belgian friends picking him up from the Netherlands. But the trouble had started in Germany when all the large international trains got cancelled and he had to use some smaller ones and change several times.
Ah.... Privatisation. That says it *all* really. Take a perfectly usable system (even with its flaws), sell it off to the highest bidder, watch them dismantle things to make as much money as quickly as possible, put the prices up, cut services, run it into the ground and then get bailed out by the government... It's been happening here ever since Thatcher... They never learn - although there is some *talk* of re-nationalising the Railways. About bloody time I say! We have one of the most inefficient and expensive railway systems in Europe. Thankfully I don't need to use it very much these days...
I'd have thought that Germany would be more sensible about such things!
Well, you had Margaret Thatcher, we had Helmut Kohl. Still makes things bad today.
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