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Alborlin@lemmy.world 2 years agoNot car free but i can definitely tell you there is possibility to walk, public transit in MOST of EU cities. Starting from Scandinavia, almost any city with pop , 10k or more will have generally bus transport, and probable connectivity to nearest big city by train/bus, big cities have metro (Stockholm) that I know of Germany has vast network of rail(although it’s schisse at moment with DB) , within cities its bus , that I know of . France almost any big city will have bus, tram and/or metro and long distance trains Same for spains cities , Netherlands is famous for its Public transport This is from what I know
Cars are severely slow and given less prio in these countries, in any of big city e.g. Barcelona, Paris, Hague, you can see you can go faster by public transportation or almost same time as car for same destinations , check it out in Google maps with comparisons
Spain has 195mph trains as well connecting huge swaths of the country. I fortunately was able to experience this.
The American concept of a “road trip” is just not the same in Europe. The Trains are far faster than your car would ever go. No reason to putter around at 80mph on a fast American highway when Europe just has faster modes of transit.
bryndos@fedia.io 2 weeks ago
UK is generally shite - and probably getting worse.
intercity trains and local bus services are probably better than average USA - if there even is such an "average" for USA.
I don't think much in the UK is as good as say NYC though - and if there is - say maybe central London, it's fucking expensive. I recall from years ago buses and metro in NYC being quite cheap - but not like continental Europe levels of cheap.
Good job UK is not in Europe anymore - bringing the equally meaningless EU average down.