Dude, come to Switzerland… Our trains have a good network and are generally on time, but the price is truly outrageous. Driving by car alone, factoring the price of the car itself, tires, oil, gas, it is still cheaper than taking the train. It’s stupid.
Probably because the cost of living isn’t the same, and the local money is not on a 1:1 conversion with £?
I think even adjusting for PPP the difference is stark. The exchange rate doesn’t really matter here, they’ve already converted to GBP (£9.13 at current prices). If we take the recent world bank PPP values, that’s around £10.88 for someone in the UK when compared with Poland. For comparison, it costs me about £8 for a 13 mile trip. Or £47-£55 for a 140 mile trip (off peak). One way.
So I’d say, at least on that specific journey, the UK is about 4.5x-5.5x the cost, PPP adjusted, for a slightly shorter journey.
Exactly 250km in the Netherlands costs €33.30
Why are UK trains so bad?
Your ancestors did it pretty well when they built a train network in India to plunder the subcontinent.
The conservatives closed and sold most of the branch lines. They also privatised the trains.
Basically, they completely fucked us, long term, for short term gains.
Thatcher’s legacy lives on.
She was an incredibly skilled and capable politician. However, I would also happily piss on her grave for what she did with that skill and capability.
me too thanks
A ticket for the ~275 km journey from Seattle to Portland tonight is $71, or ~5.5x this price. If you plan ahead, it’s like $27, or ~2x this price. Surely US trains aren’t cheaper than UK trains?
Imma keep it 100 with you, chief: I’m not smart enough to understand what you meant by posting a screenshot of bus prices underneath my question about the relative train prices between the US and UK.
The topic is travel between different major population centers. I apologize *if you can’t relate.
Ah, I see. I thought we were talking about the relative price of 250 km train tickets between countries and struggled to figure out how your screenshot fit. Thanks for clarifying.
Yes friend how much does it cost to do x. Warsaw and Chelm are in Poland. You compared that to travel from Seattle to Portland. Neither is international travel. Why on earth are you fucking with me?
Because you posed something that was incomparable based on the parameters given?
Your reading comprehension is the problem here, nobody but yourself is fucking with you, so I propose you calm down a bit before continuing to make an ass out of yourself.
Combat Wombat meant comparing between countries the train prices of a 250 km ride inside those countries and not comparing the prices of a 250 km ride over country borders.
And even in the beginning the question wasn’t comparing different modes of transportation but directly train prices.
Try Chicago to St Louis
I paid a similar amount to that for a return ticket from Sofia to Plovdiv very recently. I was quite pissed off by how great the experience was compared to back home. After a great day out in Plovdiv I unloaded an hour plus Autistic rant about UK public transport costs on my friend sitting next to me.
Edit: That’s a ~290km round trip and it cost my party of 4 <€45.
why is it autistic to care about things being bad? those should receive the shame who willingly accept and forget all the bullshit imposed on them.
It’s not. I just added that in as I was definitely just info dumping on my friend because it was a train-related topic ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
60 euro to go from Copenhagen to Horsens (260 km)
17 euro if you book a couple weeks in advance
0.50AUD from Gympie North in Queensland to Robina on the Gold Coast.
Wait til you figure out how much it would cost in the US.
San Diego to Oxnard is a bit farther (because the coast curves) and costs $42
Our problem with trains is that there’s vast swaths of the country you can’t get to by train. Or you can’t get to from where you are without making a gigantic circle out of your way.
I was just looking up random trips, only east of the Mississippi and just northerly, I’ll post screenshots
Notable that when you get off the greyhound bus in the U.S. if it’s middle of the night, no one cares. Now you get to learn new drug intake skills.
If it’s middle of the day, the city bus doesn’t come that way. You walkin!
