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Posted by Nick B. on 7/31/2010 12:13:36 AM

While DB trains, IME, are generally roomier than trains in the UK, I've yet to encounter a problem worth mentioning in my train travels up there. Dirty? UK trains haven't struck me as necessarily less clean than DB ones, except maybe the blitz-sauber ICE's.

I only travel by public transit in the UK (with the odd taxi here and there), and while we have better ticket automats here --at which bus tickets are usually available-- I think it's unfair to criticise UK public transit across the board. But then I've only gone around as a tourist; I haven't had to rely on it for daily living.

And don't forget the air conditioning in some ICE's failing when the temperature exceeds 32°, resulting in 50°+ internal temperatures! (A bit ironic to me, since the people here are so crazily anti-air-conditioning...fear of catching pneumonia and arthritis in summer and what not.)

fares (VGN)+DB by A.Harvey on 7/31/2010 3:07:51 AM

fares (VGN)+DB by Barry on 7/31/2010 1:10:13 PM

fares (VGN)+DB by Mike Knies on 8/3/2010 8:03:25 AM

fares (VGN)+DB by john ratcliffe on 8/4/2010 1:03:30 AM

fares (VGN)+DB by Nick B. on 8/4/2010 1:50:35 AM

fares (VGN)+DB by Barry on 8/4/2010 2:47:00 AM

fares (VGN)+DB by A Harvey on 8/4/2010 11:37:14 PM

fares (VGN)+DB by john ratcliffe on 8/5/2010 12:46:33 AM

fares (VGN)+DB by Fred Waltman on 8/5/2010 6:37:05 AM

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