Yosan
2022-10-05 20:23:44
- #1
I partially agree with you, but regarding the 5,000-inhabitant towns and their connections, I unfortunately cannot agree from experience. Here, for example, even from the small town (somewhere between 10,000 and 15,000 inhabitants) to the somewhat larger town where many have to go to vocational school (not a big city), there is only one train per hour, and the surrounding villages, some of which still have 2,000 to 3,000 inhabitants, often have only a bus connection to the train station every two hours. In fact, the connections are so poor that a 5-person day ticket for the state (no idea if that still exists) on the aforementioned route was already valid in the morning before the actual start time of the ticket so that it was even possible to make use of it here. I think the schools agreed to that so that they could at least sometimes use public transport for day trips with the classes without the parents protesting about the prices. Unfortunately, it is always a double-edged sword... In the city you pay a lot for living and have significantly more "at your doorstep" or easily accessible, and in the countryside, you pay less for living but have to use the car quite often.Yes, you also have to keep the rural population in mind, but you simply cannot establish a regularly running bus line to every last village. You have to focus on the (small) cities. And there you should not offer a crap ticket, but rather a relatively cheap ticket to make public transport more attractive. Because, for example, it makes sense to use all public transport in a metropolitan area for €49 per month instead of paying over €100 per month. That way you can also get more people from the Berlin, Hamburg, Cologne outskirts, etc. to use the train. Then of course you have to expand the routes and run more trains. And yes, the rural population has decided for themselves to move to the village. This does not mean a village with 5,000 inhabitants, but one with a few hundred inhabitants. You knew very well before making the decision that you are heavily dependent on individual transport there. Everything has its advantages and disadvantages. Cheap purchase prices, longer commuting distances, and more costs or vice versa. You just have to take that into account. In many small towns with 5,000 inhabitants, there are already very regular bus lines to the train station, so you can get to the city quickly (30 minutes). But sending a bus to every small village unfortunately does not work.