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The one on the left seems to be a Chinese train tho https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanghai_maglev_train

Meanwhile in Japan: Train is 30 seconds late "here's a letter for your employer explaining why you were only 29 minutes and 30 seconds early for your 8 hour shift that will inevitably have an additional 8 hours of unpaid overtime tacked on to it."

Japan transit- Am I a joke to you?

funny but inaccurate

i live in vienna. the train comes so often, nobody bothers to check the schedule anymore. just wait 2 mins, enter, go.

Nice the train is only 15 minutes late? That's awesome - me riding any train in the US

As a European I have to say, you are very optimistic about our train schedules.

American here - I recently started taking the train to go to work! Previously I couldn't due to no trains scheduled for the return home trip after my shift was over, but after getting a new schedule, I got on board the train! So far in the past two months, I've already had a few instances of the train being delayed or missing it entirely. One day, the train was delayed by 30 minutes and stated they would be held for an unknown amount of time to put out a fire on the tracks at a station ahead - drove into work that day. Another day, the train was delayed by 5 minutes. Outside of that, I was late to the train by like 5 minutes and it left without me (still adjusting to early morning schedule).

So far, I like taking the train much more than driving the car.

American here: yeah, not far off.

Japanese transit users: "Don't worry, we can grab the next one. It will be here in 48 seconds."

Wait until you hear about Spanish trains.

Germany's known for having terrible rail. Probably on account of BMW lobbying.

Which eu countries? Most of eu countries are on second meme

You clearly havent heard of swedish trains.

The railroad here is a bad joke at this point, mainly due to shutting down the organization that was responsible for maintainence and shoving it into another agency that has no clue. As a bonus the new agency doesn't even do the repair work themselves but hires contractors at the lowest bidder. So stuff breaks constantly, which causes delays.

At this point just getting the rail network to "normal" standards would cost billions. Let alone expanding it to cope with current traffic levels.

Although there are many improvements to be made, like international euro rail connecting the capitals, better prices, a reliable DB and most importantly EU standard track system, I love our euro rails.

But I've gotta confess, the fact the US train is called Marc is kinda cool.

"Hey, I wonder where Marc is. Is he coming?"

"Nah men, Marc is completely derailed again. He burned down an entire town and he's toxic AF."

I think you may have Europe confused with Japan.

Wait until you hear about German trains.

As an American, I don't have access to trains, buses, bike lanes, sidewalks or even a shoulder on the road. The last time I tried to walk home from the tire shop two miles away, three people stopped to offer me a ride because it is that dangerous. I live inside the 275 loop that runs around Cincinnati.

Wait, you guys have trains?

...that's the shanghai maglev

edit: it was built by siemens though, so get a few euro wank points.

Deutsche Bahn has entered the chat.

The problem with trains is they are public (under)founded. The rich and powerfull with political influence don't want working public transportation because less carsales, oil, gasoline etc.

Which explains why Musk prevented a high speed train in the US with his hyperloop. We all need to buy EV"s which have most of the downsides of traditional cars.

When we could have clean, fast and comfortable public transportation.

EDIT: Spelling.

Deutsch Bahn would like a word.

I often take my car because it's so damn unreliable.

Not once, not twice, but three times I've sat on a train for 2+ hours without moving within the past 2 years.

Meanwhile in Greece:

Oh no, the train has crashed into another train that was carrying illegal chemicals, costing 57 fucking human lives again.

As an American living in a region with halfway decent (by American standards) public transit, I feel like I hear more comments aligned with the European side than the American side. If public transit has literally any downsides, that's justification enough to drive for so many people.