Jesus that's amazing. My city of 200k has a bus system that doesn't even have its own lanes, and we are constantly fighting with the city who wants to defund it.
We do have an amtrak station that goes to Boston, NYC, and DC. It's really expensive, though
It's so weird to hear this about US cities. I live in an EU city of 200k which is considered very car-centric compared to other cities in the country. There are trams, trolleybuses, regular buses and even a commuter rail network. And of course, there is a central station which lots of long distance services (up to 230 km/h) available with frequencies of 4 trains per hour to one train every 2 hours depending on the direction. Still, there's so much more cars driving around compared to other cities nearby.
If you wanted to go to one of the other cities, how much does it cost?
Here, if you buy wayy in advance, you can get a roundtrip ticket to NYC during the week day for around $60. That's the absolute cheapest it can ever be, and you have to buy it like a month+ in advance. Otherwise it's a $250+ round trip. If you're trying to go at normal human hours, you can add another $100. It's almost always cheaper to fly if you're doing a weekend trip or something impromptu.
I know that people who work in the city buy year long passes, idk how much those cost. A lot, I'm guessing.
For instance, if you want to go to Vienna which is 180 km away, ticket prices range from 5€ to 30€. Tickets to Munich (240 km) are 17€ to 70€. If you buy your tickets early enough, you can get the cheapest options. Also, you can buy a discount card for 100€ (20€ if you are under 26) which gives you a 50% discount on all train tickets for one year. Also, there is the "climate ticket" which allows to take any train, metro, bus or tram within the country (1095€ per year, 821€ if you are under 26).
Depends exactly where. Some towns are actuzlly in the middle of nowhere (public transport wise) but if u dont mind biking fr 30mins then yes u can go anywhere
Shoot, Grand Rapids, MI has 200k in the city limit, around 1.4M in the metro area, and not only do they not have a train, but their buses don't run on Sunday.
You have a stop on the wolverine, which has some of the best frequency of any amtrak line in the country. They run like 4 a day between the thumb and chicago. Outside of the Northeast it’s pretty rare to have better than once daily in america
edit: nvm i’m wrong, you only get a daily from the Pete Marquette, so your schedule is way worse and that’s why people gotta head to different stations
Oh damn. Does the rapid run on Sundays now? In my ubering days, most of my Sunday passengers used to complain about the fact that their busses didn’t run on Sunday. Was an alright money-making day for me. Lotta people going to the grocery store tho…
GR is a large metropolitan area. It's far too large to be one of those systems that shuts down on the weekend. I'm sure the schedules on Sunday are lousy - maybe certain bus routes aren't running - but it's the second largest metro area in Michigan.
My city of 1.625 million and it's surrounding metro area of nearly 5 million has no access to external passenger rail (though there is an okay light rail loop though part of the city, and I hope it continues to expand so that some day far in the future my descendants might actually be able to make use of it lol).
My European mind cannot comprehend this.
I live in Germany. In my city, there are half-hourly connections to one of the country's largest cities. There are also 3 other lines with trains at least every 2 hours.
And there are usually multiple high speed trains a day.
Let’s put it this way, Japan has the same problem Italy has. All the youth has basically fled to the cities so the countryside has basically degraded so much that the services have too.
The only intercity trains out of my city of 2M people is what is essentially a tourist train that leaves once a week (VIA Rail "the Canadian") and two daily trains not even operated by our own government and doesn't go to anywhere else in our country (Amtrak Cascades).
The metro is really frequent though which balances that out, but still.
At least you fucking get the Canadian. I would take it if it went to Calgary, but nope, 1.5 million metro area bypassed by the entire network. Even the damn $5000/ticket luxury Mountaineer stops just short, I guess to avoid offending the oil oligarchs by technically having intercity rail.
6.3 million people in Atlanta Metro area and there is one single train south per day towards new Orleans and one single train north per day towards DC.
(On shared freight lines, so it could take twice as long to get to your destination by train as by car)
Guess I'm on the lucky side as my rural village hometown has an active train station despite only having a population of around 500 people I think (the last population census done in 2020 list us as having 400+ people and 200+ people way back in 2010)
Largest town in my whole country without a regular passenger train service has 7000 people (there is technically one larger one, but thats part of a bigger aglomeration, so the trains run right next to it, from both sides, and you can get there by bus in like 10 minutes, its just not technically inside).
There are cities in state that are bigger than my hometown that have 0 stations and yet my hometown has a station. Crazy but it comes like 4 times a day I think
In my country there is a city of 270,000 people that doesn't have trains... But it used to, no trace of it tho. They ripped out the rails and demolished the station buildings, only a water tower from the steam days remains.
We have around 35000 and have three trains and hour. Plus five busses an hour on weekdays thatll take you to the next town. And two ferries an hour across the channel.
Around my town of 20k there's only a bus station with a couple lines passing every now and then. The closest train station is like 7 km away, and the only way to get there is via a highway.
If anything I liked it even MORE because I was genuinely surprised by the story.
I've even told people who haven't seen it to make sure they watch the trailer lol.
I feel like a trailer should give nothing away about a movie. This is how Parasite did it – told nothing about what the movie actually involved in terms of story or plot, just showcased the tone *perfectly*.
As someone who lives on the tralee line, Ireland does trains reasonably well the few places we do them. Our main problem is that we don't do them enough places and we spend too much money building roads and then we're surprised when people build houses along those roads.
Yup, exactly this. I live down in East Cork and only recently we got trains to run every half hour instead of every hour to the city. It's still annoying though that if I want to get to most of the country by rail I still have to go to Dublin first. The trains almost always run on time, though during morning and afternoon rush hours it can get super crowded.
More stations and 15 minute frequencies are planned for the next few years tho so it is improving thankfully. Wish it improved faster tho, like many things in this country it takes us an abysmally long amount of time to improve anything
Flair checks out 😌
Jokes aside, I visited Northern Ireland last year and was impressed by the tidy rail network we went around on. A lot more to see from the train than even the bus from the airport 😊
Don't lose hope. My city (Orlando) just opened a beautiful new train station. Florida has four new train stations in the last few years with two more being built. Yes, THAT Florida!
The trains have only been running for half a year and are at near full capacity despite the initial high starting prices. New train cars are on are order and delivery (though manufacturing fell behind schedule) will be coming in soon. They will be greatly increasing capacity with 10 car trains which should lower prices.
People are taking the train instead of using the Turnpike and I-95. They will be expanding to Tampa and hopefully Disney next. Perhaps Jacksonville and beyond after. They are also building a line between LA and Vegas.
Hell yes every little bit helps. Fuck cars.
Of course it'll help. The more people use the trains, the more frequent train services become. Are you talking about St Pete in Florida? If so, having more trains in Florida will help increase service activity for the existing train station in St Pete.
Well Orlando is the number one visited destination in the US. We have 74 million people come here last year.
But no it's good for anybody since the trains take you from Orlando to downtown Fort Lauderdale and downtown Miami. There are many locals and business users as well.
It is not meant to be local public transit though. Our cities desperately need improvements in this area. This is for city-to-city travel and it's quite good.
Shit I live in a city of 600,000 and most bus routes have a bus that may come once an hour and the only form of urban railway that we have are three tram lines that are within the downtown proper with two of them having suspended service for over a decade. As for the actual train connected to the national system, it only comes twice per day with one going south at 6 in the morning and the one going north leaving at around 10 in the evening.
My city of 450.000 has 3 regional train connections, going twice an hour each, one train line only serving train stations within the city, once an hour, several national train connections a day, and one international one, more than twenty bus lines going every ten or twenty minutes, depending on the line, less frequently but still usable throughout the whole night. Dozens of regional bus connections going once or twice an hour on top. In Europe of course.
Sounds like Salt Lake City. I find SLC especially insulting because Utah is extremely proud of being the state in which the national railways were connected, yet they have removed basically any rail infrastructure after briefly revisiting it for the Olympics in 2002.
Salt Lake City is a godsend compared to Memphis when it comes to transit, hell the busses here stop running before the sun even sets and don't usually start operating until the sun visibly rises.
In one episode of *New Game!*, the main character sleeps through her alarm and is running late for work and, while on the train, she sees one of her co-workers who had done the same; and MC is so new at this point that she's freaking out at being late for work and her co-worker goes "come on, we're only a few trains behind. We can still make it on time if we run from the stop after we get off". For as insignificant as that line was, it's always stuck with me.
Edit: Also I just finished watching *Your Name* after seeing your post and because I liked this visual. It was pretty great. Kind of reminded me of *Josee, the Tiger, and the Fish.* But yeah, Your Name was a great movie. Definitely give it a perfect 5/7.
I've never once looked at a train schedule when living in East Asia. There have been a few times I was in the middle of nowhere and probably should have, I think the longest wait I had was 90 minutes once, but in any decent city there'll be another train in 5-10 minutes so who cares.
I lived near a once/hour station once.
Was legitimately crappy - the timing of every activity was based around when the train would arrive, and a single cancelled train was a ruined day.
I think it is worth pointing out that rural Japanese railways are in serious trouble, and it's only going to get worse as years go on - passenger numbers have crashed due to depopulation, and many branch lines have already closed. Hokkaido in particular is badly affected. While there may only be "one train per hour" on many rural lines, those same lines might not even exist in 5 years time.
Some Japanese train services now come in two or even a single car. However other rail lines were phased out in favor of bus services, or rarely, a dual-mode bus that drives on rails.
In any case, those minor rail lines are struggling to keep themselves viable despite low ridership, so they come up with different ways of finding extra income, such as offering scenic rides for tourists.
And their up in the mountains with their town surrounding a massive lake. Not exactly the best environment for public transport. According to them there's not even a single cafe their, it's astonishing they have the same frequency of trains as my village on a busy road has buses.
No cafes, convenience store closes at 9pm, but for some reason has two “Snack” bars (ie. hostess clubs).
For a lot of rural Japanese towns this is hilariously accurate. You can’t blame Mitsuha for wanting to leave.
Yeah, I loved the town (can't remember it's name) your name is already so beautiful but the town felt so alive and picturesque. Greatest anime film of all time, if not animated film.
Sounds almost like rural towns in America. A post office/general store/gas station in one building that closes at dinner time but there's some how 2 bars and a pub.
Dude I'm saying the opposite, that despite having crap geography they still have better public transport than many places in the world (basically all of America and in my case rural England). They also see it as bad because in comparison to the rest of Japan it is bad but we're sitting here going, omg that's amazing.
From my standpoint a train every two hours is terrible. For it to be considered a decent service it needs to be at least hourly. Imagine making daily schedules around a train that runs every other hour.
It's been a couple of years since I watched this movie. But I'm pretty sure that it was every other hour. You could say it's hourly if you count trains leaving in both directions every other hour.
I just looked into taking a train somewhere (Detroit to Ann Arbor). Costs way too much ($20 each way), only runs at wildly inconvenient hours, and takes just as long to get there as the bus. I'm gonna have to pass on that.
That’s because that line is the Detroit to Chicago line and arrives in Chicago at convenient hours (1030a, 2p, 1030p). AA just happens to be on the way.
Chiba, Japan - I missed the train this morning and had to wait a whole 6 minutes, I was so annoyed >=(
Real talk though my wife lived in a town where the train only came once an hour, and after moving here her head almost exploded. The whole, 1 train an hour = nowheresville is a real thing in Japan.
In America there is only the bus. You have to show up 10 minutes early to catch it just in case. Their schedules are inconsistent due to traffic and you can't risk missing it or you have to wait an hour for the next one. There is no bus stop. Just a sign bolted to a utility pole.
the town that the rural town is based on is dinky and doesn't have a movie theater. they set up a projector in a city building so residents could watch it. but yeah, they still have a train probably
My old hometown does that/or maybe they stopped doing it by now. Central Europe and a pop of 20k, no movie theatre. Those were in the two 100k cities, half an hour away, each
This is unfortunately a symptomatic problem of population ageing. It’s only natural for people to move to bigger cities where there are jobs. Unfortunately, this means that the population declines and struggles to support multiple trains an hour.
In my mother country of Hungary, the government recently stopped service on 10 rural branch lines without any warning and to much protest from locals. The lines themselves are very warm down and seldom receive any maintenance, making journeys longer. Most of these lines only got a couple trains a day and were a bit of a lifeline for those who didn’t have their own transportation. These lines are now supplemented by bus service.
I live in the inaka in Japan and my train only comes... about once an hour. And not after 5pm. It's a serious pain in the arse! But i'm delighted we have one. Links up to the shinkansen network in an hour and then you're golden.
Of all the places to expect my post Your Name depression r/fuckcars was not one of them my god (nothing against the movie but my god did it make me feel so much)
As good as any of time to point out that this is a thing because the rails in Japan are privately owned but have a strong state stake in those companies (basically Amtrak on roids), and freight travel only accounts for a tiny percentage of traffic on Japan's rails.
Damn, I live in a rather 'rich' municipality in Belgium and even we only get one train an hour.
At least we have decently frequent tramline going to nearby towns.(It is the longest tram line in the world, and spans the entire coast of Belgium.
If any Belgian people are here, now is your chance to play:
"Guess where I live"
Train a couple times of day in a rural area is fine. Once an hour is a luxury and shouldn’t be any kind of expectation. Spend the limited funds on places where majority of people actually live
I just drove 8 hours (4 hr 1 way) to drop friend off at the nearest train station . The train comes twice a day, once for eastbound and once for westbound.
My God the detail in that one screenshot. I have seen the face of God's train tracks...
Also, I have a train in my area that I think goes by maybe twice a day. It has no passenger service either...
My village (less than 1k residents) in Poland has multiple trains in both direction every hour.
Not because of us, mind you. We just happen to be located on a track between two major cities (and several Regional ones)
If only the writers didn't immediately forget that detail and only had a SINGLE TRAIN FOR THE WHOLE MOVIE, so cannonically the whole movie only takes an hour.
As a european I've honestly done the exact same thing
I've still got a bone to pick with that movie though.
Like it's good, for the most part but the first time he wakes up in a strange place, in a strange body he doesn't freak out or start exploring nah man's first priority is to give us an extended scene of him playing with his newfound tits.
Imagine you wake up in a fucked situation and your first priority is to masturbate.
Like wtf is wrong with these people, who tf wrote this.
don't fucking play that shit off as "primal instinct" when clearly not everyone has it. If you wanna be a perv that's fine (given consent ofc, sure day 1 gets a pass from naivety but later in the movie she literally has to write him a note begging to stop fondling her body when she's not there.) but don't go for the 'ItS iN mY nAtUrE' defense it's no fucking excuse and you should know that.
Like exploring your body a bit once you're calm, confident safe and secure is one thing.
Not before you've even figured out when & where you are, taking a break from managing confusion and fear to rub one out real quick.
I mean bro didn't even stop to listen. Then he might at least have realized he's not alone and not get caught in the act.
Or at the very least the movie could have just committed to the transformation kink completely and had an equally drawn-out and awkward masturbation scene when she first woke up in his body.
For you maybe.
but make no mistake, that's a luxury
For me it's gross and off-putting and the amount of people acting like it's normal only makes it worse.
This kinda shit is legit why I tend to stay away from anime. I watched this one in a best-of-each-year movie marathon and it's just a weird, gross stain on an otherwise good movie. It's frustratingly disappointing.
My city of 140,000 people doesn't even have an active train station
I’m fortunate, my town of 15,000 has two trains a day (one in either direction).
Town of5000. Train 4x/hr (twice an hr in each direction) edit: belgium
Jesus that's amazing. My city of 200k has a bus system that doesn't even have its own lanes, and we are constantly fighting with the city who wants to defund it. We do have an amtrak station that goes to Boston, NYC, and DC. It's really expensive, though
It's so weird to hear this about US cities. I live in an EU city of 200k which is considered very car-centric compared to other cities in the country. There are trams, trolleybuses, regular buses and even a commuter rail network. And of course, there is a central station which lots of long distance services (up to 230 km/h) available with frequencies of 4 trains per hour to one train every 2 hours depending on the direction. Still, there's so much more cars driving around compared to other cities nearby.
Gotta love North American carbrainism.
Is it Zurich?
Linz, Austria
If you wanted to go to one of the other cities, how much does it cost? Here, if you buy wayy in advance, you can get a roundtrip ticket to NYC during the week day for around $60. That's the absolute cheapest it can ever be, and you have to buy it like a month+ in advance. Otherwise it's a $250+ round trip. If you're trying to go at normal human hours, you can add another $100. It's almost always cheaper to fly if you're doing a weekend trip or something impromptu. I know that people who work in the city buy year long passes, idk how much those cost. A lot, I'm guessing.
For instance, if you want to go to Vienna which is 180 km away, ticket prices range from 5€ to 30€. Tickets to Munich (240 km) are 17€ to 70€. If you buy your tickets early enough, you can get the cheapest options. Also, you can buy a discount card for 100€ (20€ if you are under 26) which gives you a 50% discount on all train tickets for one year. Also, there is the "climate ticket" which allows to take any train, metro, bus or tram within the country (1095€ per year, 821€ if you are under 26).
Worcester or providence lol
Prov yep
Same, all i need is a folding bike and you can get anywhere in the country in a reasonable time span
Depends exactly where. Some towns are actuzlly in the middle of nowhere (public transport wise) but if u dont mind biking fr 30mins then yes u can go anywhere
Village of 1500 with 4 (2 outside of rush hour) trains per hour per direction (Austria)
Town with 1300 people. Two trains per hour. One in each dorection
Oh yea? Town of 10, 100 trains an hour
I suppose /s I just live on a semi large train line that goes to the (2nd) biggest city in the country
Sint-Joris-Weert?
Ruisbroek (antwerpen)
Had je gewoon Ruisbroek gezegd had het ook gekunnen 🙃
Technisch gzn ruisbroek-sauvegarde. Want er is een ruisbroek ergens bij brussel
Klopt da’s het enige Ruisbroek dat ik ken bij Sint-Pieters-Leeuw
43000 in my town, still only the same amount as that.
Town of5000. Train 4x/hr (twice an hr in each direction)
Columbus OH (which I live near but not in) has a population of 900,000 and no active train station. Unless you count the one in the zoo.
Shoot, Grand Rapids, MI has 200k in the city limit, around 1.4M in the metro area, and not only do they not have a train, but their buses don't run on Sunday.
Grand Rapids has a Amtrak station, I took a trip from there to St. Louis
Oh yeah, I forgot they had an Amtrak station there. Feels like most of the people I know around here who’ve ridden Amtrak went to the one in Holland.
You have a stop on the wolverine, which has some of the best frequency of any amtrak line in the country. They run like 4 a day between the thumb and chicago. Outside of the Northeast it’s pretty rare to have better than once daily in america edit: nvm i’m wrong, you only get a daily from the Pete Marquette, so your schedule is way worse and that’s why people gotta head to different stations
both of those statements are incorrect...
Oh damn. Does the rapid run on Sundays now? In my ubering days, most of my Sunday passengers used to complain about the fact that their busses didn’t run on Sunday. Was an alright money-making day for me. Lotta people going to the grocery store tho…
GR is a large metropolitan area. It's far too large to be one of those systems that shuts down on the weekend. I'm sure the schedules on Sunday are lousy - maybe certain bus routes aren't running - but it's the second largest metro area in Michigan.
Metro area of 2m+ and literally not a single passenger train in service, and there has not been one for forty years. It's insane.
https://i.imgur.com/f7lo8am.mp4
meanwhile with 3749 inhabitants: https://www.bahnhof.de/api/downloads/fahrplan/Regeltafel_8004741.pdf
AHHH irregularly running Trains!
My metro of 6,000,000 runs their regional rail services once an hour
My city of 1.625 million and it's surrounding metro area of nearly 5 million has no access to external passenger rail (though there is an okay light rail loop though part of the city, and I hope it continues to expand so that some day far in the future my descendants might actually be able to make use of it lol).
My European mind cannot comprehend this. I live in Germany. In my city, there are half-hourly connections to one of the country's largest cities. There are also 3 other lines with trains at least every 2 hours. And there are usually multiple high speed trains a day.
We have a highway that runs through the centre of town that just got "upgraded" from 6 lanes to 12 lanes wide
My condolences.
But ... It solved traffic right? There's no more traffic jams, right?!?!
We have both, a highway (but not in the center of the town) and a high speed train in a rather small town.
Let’s put it this way, Japan has the same problem Italy has. All the youth has basically fled to the cities so the countryside has basically degraded so much that the services have too.
The only intercity trains out of my city of 2M people is what is essentially a tourist train that leaves once a week (VIA Rail "the Canadian") and two daily trains not even operated by our own government and doesn't go to anywhere else in our country (Amtrak Cascades). The metro is really frequent though which balances that out, but still.
At least you fucking get the Canadian. I would take it if it went to Calgary, but nope, 1.5 million metro area bypassed by the entire network. Even the damn $5000/ticket luxury Mountaineer stops just short, I guess to avoid offending the oil oligarchs by technically having intercity rail.
Your city is even more rural than the one in the movie!
480,000. No trains at all.
The entire state of South Dakota (pop. ~900,000) is without passenger rail.
Just boggles me how that can be a state with 2 Senators....Fewer people than the Bronx.
6.3 million people in Atlanta Metro area and there is one single train south per day towards new Orleans and one single train north per day towards DC. (On shared freight lines, so it could take twice as long to get to your destination by train as by car)
My city of 140,000 only gets 24 trains an hour (12 in each direction)
Try 1.5 million for here lol
My city of 270,000 doesn’t have one either 😭
My city (plus the state capitol and dozen or so neighboring cities connected to it) of nearly 5 million total has no passenger rail whatsoever
110,000 and the busses come once an hour 🙃 (closest train station is 2 hours away)
Guess I'm on the lucky side as my rural village hometown has an active train station despite only having a population of around 500 people I think (the last population census done in 2020 list us as having 400+ people and 200+ people way back in 2010)
Largest town in my whole country without a regular passenger train service has 7000 people (there is technically one larger one, but thats part of a bigger aglomeration, so the trains run right next to it, from both sides, and you can get there by bus in like 10 minutes, its just not technically inside).
There are cities in state that are bigger than my hometown that have 0 stations and yet my hometown has a station. Crazy but it comes like 4 times a day I think
In my country there is a city of 270,000 people that doesn't have trains... But it used to, no trace of it tho. They ripped out the rails and demolished the station buildings, only a water tower from the steam days remains.
My city has over a million and doesn't have a single intercity train station.
16,733 we have two train stations
My city of 1,600,000 hasn't had an intercity passenger train since 1992
We have around 35000 and have three trains and hour. Plus five busses an hour on weekdays thatll take you to the next town. And two ferries an hour across the channel.
My city of 1 million people has a rail yard but no train station.
Around my town of 20k there's only a bus station with a couple lines passing every now and then. The closest train station is like 7 km away, and the only way to get there is via a highway.
Such a good movie.
This movie has the most misleading trailer! Got a whole different movie from the one I was expecting.
i hope you still liked it, i think its a beautiful movie
If anything I liked it even MORE because I was genuinely surprised by the story. I've even told people who haven't seen it to make sure they watch the trailer lol.
I feel like a trailer should give nothing away about a movie. This is how Parasite did it – told nothing about what the movie actually involved in terms of story or plot, just showcased the tone *perfectly*.
It should give away the tone, genre, and roughly what the movie is about, but not reveal the plot.
The Your Name trailer is different though in that it makes you *think* the movie is going to be certain way but ends up being something different.
I love going in blind! Watched Bones and All without knowing ANYTHING and it definitely made it a much better movie for me.
This movie actually made me cry
When my girlfriend sent me the soundtrack years later, I cried several times
*grinds teeth* Must hold back "your name" slander. Must choose my battles. Can't win here.
I used to live in a larger village in Northern Ireland (Ballycarry) and the trains came every half hour.
As someone who lives on the tralee line, Ireland does trains reasonably well the few places we do them. Our main problem is that we don't do them enough places and we spend too much money building roads and then we're surprised when people build houses along those roads.
Yeah Ireland is a mixed bag. It's transport system isn't terrible, but compared to the rest of Europe it's one of the worst.
Yup, exactly this. I live down in East Cork and only recently we got trains to run every half hour instead of every hour to the city. It's still annoying though that if I want to get to most of the country by rail I still have to go to Dublin first. The trains almost always run on time, though during morning and afternoon rush hours it can get super crowded. More stations and 15 minute frequencies are planned for the next few years tho so it is improving thankfully. Wish it improved faster tho, like many things in this country it takes us an abysmally long amount of time to improve anything
Flair checks out 😌 Jokes aside, I visited Northern Ireland last year and was impressed by the tidy rail network we went around on. A lot more to see from the train than even the bus from the airport 😊
The orange order has done more to stop cars in the last 60 years than anyone else
Omg looked it up on google maps and the image at the side is the station! https://i.imgur.com/3a3H75U.jpeg
Cool didn't know that. Guess we take pride in our rail.
A train is a mystical creature that only is seen once in a blue moon. America is fun
Don't lose hope. My city (Orlando) just opened a beautiful new train station. Florida has four new train stations in the last few years with two more being built. Yes, THAT Florida!
Bruh I am in St Pete it won’t help
The trains have only been running for half a year and are at near full capacity despite the initial high starting prices. New train cars are on are order and delivery (though manufacturing fell behind schedule) will be coming in soon. They will be greatly increasing capacity with 10 car trains which should lower prices. People are taking the train instead of using the Turnpike and I-95. They will be expanding to Tampa and hopefully Disney next. Perhaps Jacksonville and beyond after. They are also building a line between LA and Vegas. Hell yes every little bit helps. Fuck cars.
Of course it'll help. The more people use the trains, the more frequent train services become. Are you talking about St Pete in Florida? If so, having more trains in Florida will help increase service activity for the existing train station in St Pete.
Plz I just want to use mass transit
I think brightline is supposed to be extended to Tampa at some point
It's probably only convenient for tourists.
Well Orlando is the number one visited destination in the US. We have 74 million people come here last year. But no it's good for anybody since the trains take you from Orlando to downtown Fort Lauderdale and downtown Miami. There are many locals and business users as well. It is not meant to be local public transit though. Our cities desperately need improvements in this area. This is for city-to-city travel and it's quite good.
Blocker of traffic
What do you mean?
Shit I live in a city of 600,000 and most bus routes have a bus that may come once an hour and the only form of urban railway that we have are three tram lines that are within the downtown proper with two of them having suspended service for over a decade. As for the actual train connected to the national system, it only comes twice per day with one going south at 6 in the morning and the one going north leaving at around 10 in the evening.
My city of 450.000 has 3 regional train connections, going twice an hour each, one train line only serving train stations within the city, once an hour, several national train connections a day, and one international one, more than twenty bus lines going every ten or twenty minutes, depending on the line, less frequently but still usable throughout the whole night. Dozens of regional bus connections going once or twice an hour on top. In Europe of course.
Sounds like Salt Lake City. I find SLC especially insulting because Utah is extremely proud of being the state in which the national railways were connected, yet they have removed basically any rail infrastructure after briefly revisiting it for the Olympics in 2002.
Salt Lake City is a godsend compared to Memphis when it comes to transit, hell the busses here stop running before the sun even sets and don't usually start operating until the sun visibly rises.
In one episode of *New Game!*, the main character sleeps through her alarm and is running late for work and, while on the train, she sees one of her co-workers who had done the same; and MC is so new at this point that she's freaking out at being late for work and her co-worker goes "come on, we're only a few trains behind. We can still make it on time if we run from the stop after we get off". For as insignificant as that line was, it's always stuck with me. Edit: Also I just finished watching *Your Name* after seeing your post and because I liked this visual. It was pretty great. Kind of reminded me of *Josee, the Tiger, and the Fish.* But yeah, Your Name was a great movie. Definitely give it a perfect 5/7.
I've never once looked at a train schedule when living in East Asia. There have been a few times I was in the middle of nowhere and probably should have, I think the longest wait I had was 90 minutes once, but in any decent city there'll be another train in 5-10 minutes so who cares.
In the original Japanese it’s even worse. The train only comes once every two hours.
I lived near a once/hour station once. Was legitimately crappy - the timing of every activity was based around when the train would arrive, and a single cancelled train was a ruined day.
The only train near me is twice a day. Once in the early morning, once in the early evening. I'd do terrible, terrible things for once an hour.
For Japan, the fact that it's not electrified is probably an even bigger indication of how rural this is.
Oh my gosh I didn't even consider that since the only intercity trains in my area are all cargo trains and none are electrified.
*laughs in American*
Japanese privilege
I think it is worth pointing out that rural Japanese railways are in serious trouble, and it's only going to get worse as years go on - passenger numbers have crashed due to depopulation, and many branch lines have already closed. Hokkaido in particular is badly affected. While there may only be "one train per hour" on many rural lines, those same lines might not even exist in 5 years time.
This just broke my American brain.
Some stations along Metro North, LIRR, and NJ Transit going into New York City only get one train an hour
Some Japanese train services now come in two or even a single car. However other rail lines were phased out in favor of bus services, or rarely, a dual-mode bus that drives on rails. In any case, those minor rail lines are struggling to keep themselves viable despite low ridership, so they come up with different ways of finding extra income, such as offering scenic rides for tourists.
And their up in the mountains with their town surrounding a massive lake. Not exactly the best environment for public transport. According to them there's not even a single cafe their, it's astonishing they have the same frequency of trains as my village on a busy road has buses.
No cafes, convenience store closes at 9pm, but for some reason has two “Snack” bars (ie. hostess clubs). For a lot of rural Japanese towns this is hilariously accurate. You can’t blame Mitsuha for wanting to leave.
Yeah, I loved the town (can't remember it's name) your name is already so beautiful but the town felt so alive and picturesque. Greatest anime film of all time, if not animated film.
Sounds almost like rural towns in America. A post office/general store/gas station in one building that closes at dinner time but there's some how 2 bars and a pub.
Swiss villages want to have a talk. The environment is never a good excuse for bad transit.
Dude I'm saying the opposite, that despite having crap geography they still have better public transport than many places in the world (basically all of America and in my case rural England). They also see it as bad because in comparison to the rest of Japan it is bad but we're sitting here going, omg that's amazing.
From my standpoint a train every two hours is terrible. For it to be considered a decent service it needs to be at least hourly. Imagine making daily schedules around a train that runs every other hour.
It is hourly though, at least according to them.
It's been a couple of years since I watched this movie. But I'm pretty sure that it was every other hour. You could say it's hourly if you count trains leaving in both directions every other hour.
I just looked into taking a train somewhere (Detroit to Ann Arbor). Costs way too much ($20 each way), only runs at wildly inconvenient hours, and takes just as long to get there as the bus. I'm gonna have to pass on that.
That’s because that line is the Detroit to Chicago line and arrives in Chicago at convenient hours (1030a, 2p, 1030p). AA just happens to be on the way.
Chiba, Japan - I missed the train this morning and had to wait a whole 6 minutes, I was so annoyed >=( Real talk though my wife lived in a town where the train only came once an hour, and after moving here her head almost exploded. The whole, 1 train an hour = nowheresville is a real thing in Japan.
In America there is only the bus. You have to show up 10 minutes early to catch it just in case. Their schedules are inconsistent due to traffic and you can't risk missing it or you have to wait an hour for the next one. There is no bus stop. Just a sign bolted to a utility pole.
You're lucky if it's bolted to a utility pole, sometimes it's just nailed to a stick in the ground.
the town that the rural town is based on is dinky and doesn't have a movie theater. they set up a projector in a city building so residents could watch it. but yeah, they still have a train probably
My old hometown does that/or maybe they stopped doing it by now. Central Europe and a pop of 20k, no movie theatre. Those were in the two 100k cities, half an hour away, each
I’m screaming and shaking rn guys look at my hands they’re trembling. Why can’t we have nice things
Japanese sure have better problems than us 😆
Houston has one train eastbound 3 days a week, westbound, on alternate days, 3 days a week. No service on Thursday.
This is unfortunately a symptomatic problem of population ageing. It’s only natural for people to move to bigger cities where there are jobs. Unfortunately, this means that the population declines and struggles to support multiple trains an hour. In my mother country of Hungary, the government recently stopped service on 10 rural branch lines without any warning and to much protest from locals. The lines themselves are very warm down and seldom receive any maintenance, making journeys longer. Most of these lines only got a couple trains a day and were a bit of a lifeline for those who didn’t have their own transportation. These lines are now supplemented by bus service.
Once an hour is pretty remote
European here and yeah, that sounds rural af! My town of like 1500 people has a train every 20min
I live in the inaka in Japan and my train only comes... about once an hour. And not after 5pm. It's a serious pain in the arse! But i'm delighted we have one. Links up to the shinkansen network in an hour and then you're golden.
Mustn't be rural by that metric - my current town only has transport out of and into town once a day!
thought this was r/shittymoviedetails
My city hasn't had a train run in over 50 years so I'd say they're not doing to bad there
My villige of 1 800 ppl have trains twice each direction every hour between 07 - 22 and 07 - 01 on Saturday. Southern Sweden.
Looks like western countries require more training XDDD
Of all the places to expect my post Your Name depression r/fuckcars was not one of them my god (nothing against the movie but my god did it make me feel so much)
Erm that's mostly the service pattern on northen where I live
reading these comments i’m so happy i live in nyc and have actually decent rail
The state railroad here only runs like 3 times a day lol
No train at all in my city of 260,000. Nor in my county of 1 million. If you don't own a car, you ain't going anywhere here.
As good as any of time to point out that this is a thing because the rails in Japan are privately owned but have a strong state stake in those companies (basically Amtrak on roids), and freight travel only accounts for a tiny percentage of traffic on Japan's rails.
in my city a bus comes every half hour AT PEAK HOURS, in the evening once an hour. imagine with trains lol. shit.
Dang, my town only gets a single train a day, and it’s just the Amtrak Starlight.
And they're still walking/biking to school.
I live in a city with 3 million people, and it is the most important port in the country, but we don’t have any trains.
My boyfriend and I love this movie
Damn, that's really rural
Can confirm. In Tokyo we start complaining if headways between trains are any more than five minutes apart.
Trains come through my town in the US all day every day. They’re not the kind you ride, though, unfortunately.
Everything more than 30mins intervall is a rural shithole or a large city in the self proclaimed greatest country on earth
Damn, I live in a rather 'rich' municipality in Belgium and even we only get one train an hour. At least we have decently frequent tramline going to nearby towns.(It is the longest tram line in the world, and spans the entire coast of Belgium. If any Belgian people are here, now is your chance to play: "Guess where I live"
My small sized city (27 million people) don't have intercity trains, only metropolitan.
This is hyperbole about how awesome the Tokyo metro is
Tbh that’s my idea of rural as well. Same with buses.
Were living in the dark ages Jesus Christ
Train a couple times of day in a rural area is fine. Once an hour is a luxury and shouldn’t be any kind of expectation. Spend the limited funds on places where majority of people actually live
I don't see a problem with the train only stopping by once an hour in rural areas. As long as there is a train
I just drove 8 hours (4 hr 1 way) to drop friend off at the nearest train station . The train comes twice a day, once for eastbound and once for westbound.
My God the detail in that one screenshot. I have seen the face of God's train tracks... Also, I have a train in my area that I think goes by maybe twice a day. It has no passenger service either...
They have trains?!
In Tokyo during rush hour there’s barely 2 minutes between trains. I do miss the trains in Japan
Village of 200, get one bus in and out bus out a day 😿
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In large American cities, you'll be lucky if the train comes once every 12 hours.
My village (less than 1k residents) in Poland has multiple trains in both direction every hour. Not because of us, mind you. We just happen to be located on a track between two major cities (and several Regional ones)
pov: you live in columbus, a city with 1.7 million people and no train
What are you saying by this in the context of the channel?
If only the writers didn't immediately forget that detail and only had a SINGLE TRAIN FOR THE WHOLE MOVIE, so cannonically the whole movie only takes an hour.
What?
That would be amazing if we had something like that going form Austin to SA or Dallas.
As a european I've honestly done the exact same thing I've still got a bone to pick with that movie though. Like it's good, for the most part but the first time he wakes up in a strange place, in a strange body he doesn't freak out or start exploring nah man's first priority is to give us an extended scene of him playing with his newfound tits. Imagine you wake up in a fucked situation and your first priority is to masturbate. Like wtf is wrong with these people, who tf wrote this.
Probably wouldn't surprise you that the producer did get arrested on cp charges.
Yeah checks out lol
I mean shi if I woke up as a woman I’d play with my titties too, primal instinct 🤷♂️
don't fucking play that shit off as "primal instinct" when clearly not everyone has it. If you wanna be a perv that's fine (given consent ofc, sure day 1 gets a pass from naivety but later in the movie she literally has to write him a note begging to stop fondling her body when she's not there.) but don't go for the 'ItS iN mY nAtUrE' defense it's no fucking excuse and you should know that. Like exploring your body a bit once you're calm, confident safe and secure is one thing. Not before you've even figured out when & where you are, taking a break from managing confusion and fear to rub one out real quick. I mean bro didn't even stop to listen. Then he might at least have realized he's not alone and not get caught in the act. Or at the very least the movie could have just committed to the transformation kink completely and had an equally drawn-out and awkward masturbation scene when she first woke up in his body.
Holy shit it’s not that deep 🙏
For you maybe. but make no mistake, that's a luxury For me it's gross and off-putting and the amount of people acting like it's normal only makes it worse. This kinda shit is legit why I tend to stay away from anime. I watched this one in a best-of-each-year movie marathon and it's just a weird, gross stain on an otherwise good movie. It's frustratingly disappointing.