>Rail-based
>Not maglev
>2010

Welp

Because autobahn.

because its filled with subhumans like OP

>>23473150
i've got an audi TT, you can keep your poorfag locomotive

>>>/n/

>Live in Australia
>Stuck with Cityrail's garbage system
>See trains doing world records in France and Japan
I sit in awe
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8skXT5NQzCg

Rail is for poorfags who can't afford a car. Enjoy sitting next to some nigger listening to shit music for two hours.

>>23473188
>implying electric trains aren't technology
>>>/b/

>>23473150
>Eurostar
>Travelling to France or Belgium

ISHYGDDT

In all seriousness, Europe has a nice rail network. I've used the German Motorail service to transport me and my car overnight to Italy, saving me a 24 hour drive. 4 hours from Calais and then next morning in Livorno.

Because it's so expensive, at least here in Finland.

>>23473150
>not using superior teleportation

>>23473187
>get suckered into buying basically a Golf without a trunk or rear seats
>brag about it

>leaving mother's basement
How about no.

>>23473194
Yeah, when are they going to finish building all these rail ptojects that they promised us almost 10 years ago like the SWRL and NWRL?

>>23473211
>Behold, a mighty teleportation system!
>You can teleport to any other system in the world!
>Only one exists

>>23473150
>Dense centralised population, but large amounts of urban sprawl outside of a 1km radius
>Nearest stop is inside the centralised population
>You want to get 3km from the stop

Welp

Because it's not available in my area to conveniently get to where I want to go.

>>23473187

>Audi TT

What, do you just suck dicks for a living?

>>23473194
The problem with Shittyrail is that the railway tracks in Australia are built on steep gradients and are fairly curved.

The Countrylink XPT is based on the BR 125 however they had to modify it significantly. Apparently if they'd just dumped a BR 125 on the tracks here, it wouldn't go up the first hill it reached.

I've lived in Japan and the US.

Fuck driving, seriously. Fuck traffic. Fuck crazy drivers. Fuck stupid pedestrians. Fuck parking lots.

>>23473187

>Buying a TT over a Z370 or a Brera or a Scirocco or an Alfa GT or even an S3

Enjoy looking like a hairdresser. TTs are the Macs of the car world. Pretty but slow, shit handling, and owned by rems with crap knowledge of cars.

because buses are cheaper, unfortunately

>Live in the United Kingdom
>Get everywhere I need to easily by rail, Manchester, London, Paris

>Move to the United States
>No trains anywhere
>Practically stranded because I don't have a car, they don't even build sidewalks here

Canada had a really nice rail system, I was expecting the US to have at least something similar.

>>23473250
>confirmed for poorfag

the uk has the worst and most expensive rail travel in europe

>>23473289

And then they charge you 8 pound to drive into London. Get your shit together, UK.

>live in London travel zone 5
>not quite live close enough to an underground station to be able to use its glorious service to commute, have to use shitty suburban service

fuck this gay earth.

>>23473150
>sitting in a box with a bunch of stinky peasants
That's disgusting, what's wrong with you?

>>23473317

As a person living in Zone 2 five minutes from a tube station, all I can say is thank your fucking stars you don't live in an inner city shithole

>>23473317

>live in Melbourne
>habitually fare evade on trams
>get fined only once or twice a year

Transport costs me less than $200 a year.

>>23473310

Not supporting the Congestion Charge, but have you tried to drive through Central London? So many retards these days in X5s or MLs in streets designed for horses. People like that deserve every fucking charge they accrue.

>>23473347

I still have to get the Underground from Waterloo up to my uni at peak time every day, but I also have to spend half an hour crammed into a South West Train to get there in the first place. If I lived a mile and a half north of where I do I could just sit on the Piccadilly line for 45 mins instead.

>>23473370

I only visit once a year or so (Ausfag).
Yeah, I have tried it and I guess you have a point, but perhaps making public transport a bit cheaper would achieve the same thing - rather than slugging people either way.

>>23473194
Imagine that motherfucker derailing...

>>23473194
So I've seen that video before, but something just clicked...how were they filming it as it was going along, because they would have to be following the train in a freaking jet.

Daily train commuter reporting in. Sure, it does have it's drawbacks - but it's cheap and effective, I can read a book / play vidya while on the train, and the daily route from home to the station and from the station to my lab gives me a 5.3km walk, which is neat for health reasons.

No reason to blow my money on the car and gas.

>no trains
>free bus
welp.

>>23473449
Could still be a helicopter
They didn't do long periods
Maybe they did a bit, then cut ahead of it and did it again

How about a bus that can go on both roads and rails? Best of both worlds.

>>23473465
Helicopters can't go that fast. Off the top of my head the fastest one ever went like...just under 400kmph.

>>23473474

Jesus Christ, how horrifying.
Where in Australia is this? I have never seen this.

>>23473497
Apparently it's an SA thing
They call it the Obahn or something

>>23473497
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>>23473506
country ghetto trains, pull buses on em and pretend they are trains

>>23473497
>>23473506
Down in SA, it's the O-Bahn. Long track of rail that connects the city to some of the outer suburbs. An absolute god send as a shortcut to beat the main road traffic.

>>23473521
Can your train go on roads as well? :3c

>>23473510

If you expect me to have any semblance of common sense or reading comprehension, you will just be disappointed.

>>23473506
Thats correct, even though i live in SA ive never seen one.

>>23473543
Well it's only in the NE side of the city, so that's probably why, if you live somewhere other than there.

>>23473289
Oh, its hideously expensive. A trip from birmingham to a friends place in northern wales would have cost upwards of £120 for a return, i can get flights to europe for less.

Birmingham is relatively good for rail, pity so many other places suck and drive up the price.

>>23473370
Don't forget all those X6s. It's like BMW built that car for douchebags.

>>23473187
>Audi TT - $62000
>Locomotive - $3000000

Every time i use a train i feel ripped off. The pricing system in the UK is extremely retarded and nonsensical.

enjoy visiting 80s museum everyday

I use it every day. For free, as I am a student.

Frenchfag here, enjoy your shitty trains, USA, while I sit in my master race TGV.

>>23473150
Because shitty infrastructure and slow ass trains. (Murrika)

>>23473150
But I do, OP. Every day.

cause taking the train costs shitloads of money, but ill be forced to next year, seeing as i cant bikemy way for 20 kilometers.

This is one of the things I will never understand. In my city, you can reach almost everything faster by train than by car. Even if you're faster by car, you still have to find a parking lot, probably far away from where you wanted to go, and probably pay for it. Yet people always prefer car over public transport. Wtf?
My opinion in rail based transport vs. car
# Faster
# No parking lot needed. When you go home, just get into the next train station, not walk miles to your car
# You can do stuff while being transported, e.g. preparing lectures in uni
# You meet lots of friends and new people on the train
# You can get drunk
# It's way cheaper
# No need to repair something or worry about something getting broken
# OIl price? IDGAF, trains here run by electricity

I am 24, have my driving license since I am 20, have lots of money, yet I don't own a car because it is pointless.

>>23476245
> You can do stuff while being transported
This is what I dislike most about driving.

>>23476245
Oh, I forgot
# You're ON TIME. Seriously, when I go to work, I always arrive at the same time +-3 minutes. When I go by car, I never know when I actually arrive due to traffic

But I do OP, erry day.

In Stockholm County Bus travel is Faster than cheap german shit trains they bought for commuter traffic (several trains canceled due too hot for the train doors to function / too cold for the doors to function)

>>23476329

>>23473150

Because most cities in the US don't use rail for mass transport, outside of the large ones.

We were going to get a 2 billion dollar mandate here in Florida to build a high speed rail line through the state, but our asshat governor didn't take it for whatever reason. Not like anybody would use it everyday, since it would just go to other cities. And Tallahassee is too small of a town to warrant a train system within it. It takes maybe 20 or 30 minutes to drive from one end of town to the other, depending on how fast you drive and how many green lights you get, so there's really no need.

Yeah.

aw yeaah trains

>>23476329
If you live in the city you can just use the subway, it rarely fails.

It's still too expensive at $100/month. They even talked about raising the fees even more.

I think this thread calls for some Railroad Tycoon.. let me find the CD..

is america had a decent, nationwide rail system i'd never fly within the country. you can get around the northeast comfortably, though. seeing as i'm neither mexican nor inbred, limited access to the rest of the country doesn't reallly bother me.
trains in europe (not england) are fucking great.

>>23476415
new baghdad doesn't have a subway we have commuter trains and buses

commuter trains if they work takes 45 minutes to stockholm

bus takes 31 minutes to liljeholmen and from there you can take tvärbanan or subway or buses to other areas around stockholm

>North America
>Trains
Try again in 40 years

>>23476390
he probably killed it because public transportation is a communist threat to our democracy.
nice job electing repiblicunts.

>north america
>not a 3rd world country

try again never

>Light Rail + Bus
> 400NOK/Month for unlimited travel.
> Less than getting parking space for a car would have been.

>>23476484
>sand nigger
you have internet access? this is not what we invaded you for!

>>23476513

There's no doubt in my mind that come the next election he'll be out, as well as a Democratic majority in our legislature. The guy has done abysmally, and so has the legislature. I think Scott's approval rating was hovering somewhere around 17%. Too bad the only people who vote in gubernatorial elections and for state representatives are uneducated old people who are scared of change.

>>23476534
not me i lived here 15 years before they invaded our town

>>23476534
>war for oil
>war for internet

I live in Houston and the 'public transportation' we have is atrocious.

For "the greatest country in the world", the US is behind.

>>23473474
That's horrifically stupid.

Trolley-buses on the other hand...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolleybus

>>23473609
I live in birmigham too. :3
Our bus service isn't too bad either.

>>23476609

Houston is atrocious. Oh god I hate that city so much.

I don't want to offend you if you actually like it, though, but shit man.

>>23476854

This reminds me of an episode of Thomas the Tank Engine, where one train almost falls off the rails and the other train has to pull him back up.

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>>23476970

wat

>2011+1
>Not using your Jedi powers to move trains
>mfw

Behold, the best the Dutch railworks has to offer, the VIRM-IV!

>>23477896
And you still have to stand half of the time. Shit sucks, the Nijmegen area is so bad for public transport.

>>23477852
resize your pics, we dont all have ipads

>>23478100
>>23478100

???

I don't have an iPad either, I have an HD monitor, lol.

BEHOLD, FRESH FROM CROATIA WHERE WE USE OLD SHIT ON THE RAILS, SOMETHING COMPLETELY NEW MADE BY US.


But in all seriousness, our rail network really needs some modernisation.

Sorry, my country is too large for its own good and it's rail system is shitty and outdated. If I lived in the EU or Japan I'd certainly use trains.

Manchester Metrolink here, feels good man.

>>23473150
>>23473168
quit being poorfags and get a job that pays you enough to get a car and afford it.

>>23478220

oh look, another fossil who thinks everyone needs a car

>>23473239
>TTs are the Macs of the car world
That's Toyota actually.

>complaining about niggers around you
>not riding 1st class
>I seriously...

>>23478210
> not in service
> filled with passengers

Hi OP,
I live in the countryside so I usually walk, bike or take a bus to get anywhere. For longer distances, I take the 1-hour bus ride to the nearest railway station and then go by train from there.

>>23478210
Why the fuck are the doors so high, do you have to jump or some shit to get in?

Trains here in Germany are wonderful. The tickets cost the same as the gas you'd pay to get there by car, and as a bonus you don't have to drive like a crazy man on the Autobahn.
www.bahn.de

>>23478100
>Implying everyone should have to cater to your 800x600 bullshit.

Enjoy driving around idiots and douche bags on the roads.

I'll get there faster and with less hassle.

pic related is my only weapon of choice

>>23473150
>superior rail based transport

>Can only go along a single designated path
>Forced to follow someone elses time schedule
>Implying a train will take me to where I want to go
>Implying the closest public train station isn't 40 minutes away
>Implying the other places it goes to are anywhere I want to go at all
>Implying I want to take a bus after

>>23477896
I miss riding the NS when I was an expat in the NL.
Nice comfy trains.

>>23478295
Learn to transportation

>>23478295
>Why the fuck are the doors so high, do you have to jump or some shit to get in?

They're called "platforms".

>>23478379
The 80's called, they want their stairs back

>>23478355
I'm sorry your country is so shitty as to not have train stations within 30 minutes of you, but if I'm taking a trip that's somewhere between 2-5 hours by car, I'll take the train options very seriously into consideration, should I not need a car in my destination or should I be able to rent one there. It's good to be able to choose.

PS: tell me to pay my debts, I'm portuguese

>>23473250
New York, Washington, Chicago have decent rail systems. San Fran has a somewhat tolerable one. Boston has one also.

>>23478379
That fucking sucks if you have some kind of a leg disability.

>Living in Poland
>Only few decent trains on long distance.
>Local trains are mostly from the '70s

>Trip to Vienna
>dat transportation system
All of my jelly

X60 (Doesn't work in hot weather and cold weather)

>>23475956
Where is this, Poland?

>>23476245
Also, after riding the train a lot I just don't like driving anymore. It feels dangerous and stressful, and I'm a good driver.

>>23478507
You guess that right...

Look at this cozy interiors

>Not living in France
Wow, it must suck not to use the superior way of transportation

Japanese trains > swiss trains > german trains > everything else

>>23478493
Södra station, I can almost see my house in that picture.

X1 Train

Bet you all are jelly of the fact I'm playing Sid Meier's Railroads right now.

>>23478601
>not playing railworks

>>23478627

>£1200 worth of DLC

>>23478556
France is master-race country.

Why, oh why did my ancestors move from Alsace to fucking Iowa?

>>23478655

France is fucking pig-shit tier, what are you on about?

http://www.railwaygazette.com/fileadmin/user_upload/railwaygazette.com/PDF/RailwayGazetteWorldSpeedS
urvey2007.pdf

>>23478558

>>23478665
Do you live there?

I love the train system especially.

>>23478665
This.
>>23478655
France is literally the worst country I've ever been to.

>>23478689

Nope, English...

>>23478655
>>23478665
You just mad coz' America has shit trains.
Oh wait... I thought your country was built with railroads.Why did you stop using them?

>>23478689

The swiss have the best train system on the planet

>mfw trains...
>excuse me while i go where i want, when i want, door to door
>you enjoy trying to justify your poverty

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Transport in my city

>>23478786
For a second I thought it was manchester. Then I realised
>No chavs

lol @ people in this thread saying

>hurr durr I has car, it maeks me better than u. enjoy ur poorfag shit


Honestly if I lived in an area of the world where I had access to a half-decent rail system I'd fuckin' use it. The gas prices are absurd right now and getting worse, but I'm sure you faggots will try to justify it, just like Mac users justify spending twice the price on hardware because the OS is only $30.

>>23473481
A plane, perhaps ?

>2012
>Not using master race TGV/ICE

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_speed_record_for_rail_vehicles

>>23473150
because i can have sex in my car

and i can't on public transport methods

Landan ere.

All my travel requirments are met by the London buses. Helen Mirren came on my bus last week. Plus the new London bus looks amazing, so happy for the classic platform at the back so you can get on and off whenever you want.