Public transport in the UK is expensive and very badly run (and largely privatised - at least the rail service - these days so it's only public transport in terms of who can use it, not who owns it). Other European countries manage to run far more efficient services with far cheaper ticket prices - I don't know why we are so bad at it :-(
roleybob - huge annual subsidy curtesy taxpayers in France is how they pay for the 'very cheap' tickets. The Times reported that 'The rail system is subsidised annually by about €200 per person and it still loses €3 billion a year'. More so - even those who don't use the train pay for it.
Besides, taking the train in Germany (which a few years back subsidised its train system four times more than the UK) made me really appreciate the efficiency of the UK system. It's just dreadful there.
That was probably my biggest shock the first time I went to Germany 15 years ago and every subsequent time I've been since then. Wife is half German and have a grandmother in law who is still alive so the entire family goes every couple of years. We've looked at taking the train to difference places and even after car rental, 7/8 dollar a gallon gas and parking costs in the central part of the city, it's still significantly cheaper than taking the train for a family of four. We really want to take the train to Hamburg from outside Frankfurt to go the model train museum and we just can't pull the trigger when a mid sized station wagon is half the price.
I'm British and I went for public transport, for some reason I figured that the proportion of people located in London would really skew the stats, and also I don't drive so I guess that makes me biased
N7er - Public transport should be very heavily subsidised. I haven't been to Germany for quit a few years so can't say what it's like now but don't remember it being bad
Public transport in Germany tends to be incredibly efficient and well-run as long as you stay within the same Bundesland (although that probably also varies from Land to Land). It's sometimes more complicated when you have to cross multiple Länder...
Your plan to trick people seem to have worked! I have never seen an answer so low in these types of quizzes, usually lowest is around 60% this one is currently at 33%!
btw non-americans can fall for it too, I did. (but partly since you added it as a question, thinking if the answer would be car the question wouldn't be on here. And maybe partly cause I am naive haha, and actually I didn't read througoughly, was thinking more of london than the entire UK. Because if I would have thought about the entire UK no way I would have answered Public transport.)
Margaret Thatcher may or may not have said that anyone on a bus over the age of 25 is a failure, but the fact that she even might have said that was enough to guide me to the right answer.
The difference between London and the rest of England is striking (data happens to refer to England, rather than other parts of the UK): https://www.citymetric.com/transport/can-you-really-get-work-without-using-public-transport-commuters-most-england-already-do
It isn't the car that is dangerous, it tends to be the drivers. If I lived in London then I would take the tube. However, living in a rural area it takes me 25 minutes to drive to work whereas public transport would take hours and I would still have to walk the last mile or two
Nah, this is the 21st century. Now we walk down the path while pretending to drive a car, going "beep beep" and doing an exaggerated steering motion with out hands.
The Tube is the only reason public transit gets even as much use as it does in the UK; outside London, where about half of all journeys are taken by mass transit, the stats drop massively, simply because no other city in the UK has such a comprehensive transit network. Even Manchester's Metrolink is weaker than it should be for a city of three million.
American conservatives think Europe is a socialist hellhole where everyone takes the train.
Public transport in the UK is expensive and very badly run (and largely privatised - at least the rail service - these days so it's only public transport in terms of who can use it, not who owns it). Other European countries manage to run far more efficient services with far cheaper ticket prices - I don't know why we are so bad at it :-(
Besides, taking the train in Germany (which a few years back subsidised its train system four times more than the UK) made me really appreciate the efficiency of the UK system. It's just dreadful there.
btw non-americans can fall for it too, I did. (but partly since you added it as a question, thinking if the answer would be car the question wouldn't be on here. And maybe partly cause I am naive haha, and actually I didn't read througoughly, was thinking more of london than the entire UK. Because if I would have thought about the entire UK no way I would have answered Public transport.)
It is, however, part of the British Isles, which is presumably why it's in this quiz about British geography. It fits.
We want other people to take the train.
You scored 14/15 = 93%
This beats or equals 93% of test takers
The average score is 10
Your high score is 14
I clicked by car, but then changed my mind to public transport, because I remembered how crowded the tube can get!
It’s arguably the UK, but only loosely.
It’s really just another BOT (British Overseas Territory).