Big surprise, public transportation is overpriced here.
Middle earners are flocking from the U.K. if they can. Don’t blame them either. All got back ache from propping up the country.
Until very recently, Arriva were owned by Germany’s Deutsche Bahn. I have absolutely no proof that they gouged the British public to subsidise their own public transport network, no sir… so if anyone wants to link to reputable reports confirming what we all suspect, go nuts, I won’t be the least bit surprised.
I just changed jobs to work from home. My commute is free, and no need to move counties.
A few years ago Germany had €9 monthly tickets which got you **unlimited** travel on buses and local trains, for a whole month. It was hugely popular. The estimated yearly cost if they made it permanent would have been around €10-12 billion euros, so a lot of money but very much affordable for a wealthy European country – and that cost would have gotten their citizens essentially free rail travel.
They didn’t extend the scheme in the end, but trains over there are still way more affordable than in the UK.
What is holding us back is political bravery and The Treasury, a hugely OP department which takes few numerate civil servants and turns them into miserly penny pinchers. If we injected £10 bn into the rail network every year you could bring down prices by maybe 80-90% (in comparison we spend £4 bn on migrant hotels a year lol).
Germans are always complaining about their dreadful trains. So great. Cheap and useless as opposed to expensive and useless
> In Munich, Gildersleve, who currently works as a data analyst, takes the S-Bahn for his commute
The S-Bahn in Munich is even worse in terms of reliability and punctuality than Southern and Southwestern, and that’s quite an achievement. But it is true that it’s much cheaper in Germany. I only pay about 23 euros a month because my employer covers half of my DE-Job-Ticket. Even at the full price of 49 eur, it’s still a lot cheaper.
Although it doesn’t change the fact that Deutsche Bahn fucking sucks.
I love how we have a huge immigration problem, housing problems, wage inequality and growth, we’re growing up with generations that either are nepo-babies or are homeless.. and everyone acts surprised when society is edging closer to collapse.
Britains is doomed, the Russians knee-capped us and even said it themselves “Britains on its knees and won’t stand up for decades”
8 comments
Big surprise, public transportation is overpriced here.
Middle earners are flocking from the U.K. if they can. Don’t blame them either. All got back ache from propping up the country.
Until very recently, Arriva were owned by Germany’s Deutsche Bahn. I have absolutely no proof that they gouged the British public to subsidise their own public transport network, no sir… so if anyone wants to link to reputable reports confirming what we all suspect, go nuts, I won’t be the least bit surprised.
I just changed jobs to work from home. My commute is free, and no need to move counties.
A few years ago Germany had €9 monthly tickets which got you **unlimited** travel on buses and local trains, for a whole month. It was hugely popular. The estimated yearly cost if they made it permanent would have been around €10-12 billion euros, so a lot of money but very much affordable for a wealthy European country – and that cost would have gotten their citizens essentially free rail travel.
They didn’t extend the scheme in the end, but trains over there are still way more affordable than in the UK.
What is holding us back is political bravery and The Treasury, a hugely OP department which takes few numerate civil servants and turns them into miserly penny pinchers. If we injected £10 bn into the rail network every year you could bring down prices by maybe 80-90% (in comparison we spend £4 bn on migrant hotels a year lol).
Germans are always complaining about their dreadful trains. So great. Cheap and useless as opposed to expensive and useless
> In Munich, Gildersleve, who currently works as a data analyst, takes the S-Bahn for his commute
The S-Bahn in Munich is even worse in terms of reliability and punctuality than Southern and Southwestern, and that’s quite an achievement. But it is true that it’s much cheaper in Germany. I only pay about 23 euros a month because my employer covers half of my DE-Job-Ticket. Even at the full price of 49 eur, it’s still a lot cheaper.
Although it doesn’t change the fact that Deutsche Bahn fucking sucks.
I love how we have a huge immigration problem, housing problems, wage inequality and growth, we’re growing up with generations that either are nepo-babies or are homeless.. and everyone acts surprised when society is edging closer to collapse.
Britains is doomed, the Russians knee-capped us and even said it themselves “Britains on its knees and won’t stand up for decades”
Get out whilst you can