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I´m from Germany and the DB ist one of the worst train companies here in regional traffic with a lot of cancellations. Around Dresden, where the biggest part of regional traffic is operated by DB it´s very worse. Since autumn 2023 there were 2 train lines in bus replacement due to a lack of train drivers and nearly all rush hour extra train are cancelled. Despite these cancellations a lot of trains are too short due to a lack of trains. The majority of private railways doing a better job than DB, especially "die Länderbahn" which is also operating in Czechia I´m often in Czechia because I´m living near the border and the traffic in general works so much better than in Germany. But in my opinion ČD is one of the best companies with a good organisation. For example GW Train Regio isn´t even making a extra time table for contruction works, so there are trains with around 20 Minutes delay because the replacement bus was slower, meanwhile ČD trains on the same route are on time beause the time table was adapted for replacement bus. I like travelling with Leoexpress, but they have to cancel connections if one of their FLIRT is out of order, a big quality disadvantage compared to ČD

Tramly: Nobody should be forced to go to Brno. Ahh, you are a citizen of Prague I see. Great video as always!

If you're going to put your own personal views above producing a proper and informative video then I suggest you need to go back to (in your own words) fucking school

Actually you forgot one of Europes most intresting private operator: Westbahn.

Private companies maybe improved service and generally train quality by adding more competition, but on other hand, it made traveling by trains very annoying and complicated and a lot of people switched to cars because of these changes. In the past, there was one type of ticket - flexible ticket from A to B with no mandatory train or time, it was so simple and easy, using trains was relaxed, you didn't care about anything, when you missed your train, you just used any other train, no stress. But now? Even people behind cash desks at train stations sometimes don't know what ticket to sell you and don't know all those zone systems and when you want from them something different than flexible ticket from A to B from state company, they are lost. So thank god for apps, I can finally buy what I really need and don't deal with these people, but a lot of (especially older) people don't have smartphones or bank accounts and this is really a problem, for example my father has this problem. There is no cash desk in our village and in last years, you very often don't even meet conductor in train, so these people who were used to buying tickets from conductor don't know what to do now. Sometimes you just expect you buy it in your first train and it can destroy your plans when there is no conductor at all and you wanted for example buy ticket for Prague public transportation for better price together with train ticket or something like that. So, milion companies, milion tickets, no conductors in commuting trains, relying on apps, it's a problem. And also when they saving money on conductors is stupid, because they are losing a lot of money because of that a lot of people just don't buy any ticket and expect there will be no conductor or he will not get to them in time. In the past, even pretty small villages had ticket office, there was only ticket from A to B and ALL trains always had conductor, these were simple days, I want it back. I don't care about jumping to the mud from train, I want simple days back. 😀

>czechia known for trains <proceeds to show korean electric unit in commuter and metro lines

3:12 lmao that’s my local train service.

I'm from the UK and i want to say that a Private rail is not a good option no matter the benefits. Just look at UK where Private railways has damage us with abserd price.

in poland we have the worst of all worlds - tons of train companies but owned by the government or regions - none of the benefits of competition, all of the downsides of fragmentation

I wish we had trains in my country. There's literally only two passenger railways in my country. We used to have more, but due to extensive lobbying by the auto industry and a wave of politicians that wanted to copy the USA, we lost most of them.

Splitting up the state railways was a horrible idea. In example of Germany, before 1994 there was absolute competency and cooperation of all units involved. The track maintenance teams cooperated with the schedule planners, drivers could be used on regional or long distance trains, connecting trains could be contacted to wait, rolling stock was used widely and shared, staff knew their local areas and could give sufficient information. Nowadays everybody is fighting with eachother, trains get delayed because no one told anyone about construction works, trains are cancelled because there's no staff or rolling stock available even if a different branch has them, employees don't know anything and can't really give you information.

I like your humour

Fun fact John Major original plan was to spit the UK Rail into ¼s en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Four_(British_railway_companies)

One small correction regarding the intro about Sweden would be that competition with SJ in the commercial passenger sector was only allowed from 2010 onwards.

I never heard him say he owned tesla

Greek railway operations were sold to Italy for 45.000.000€ in 2017 😭😭

9:25 My country (Spain) is doing it on its public operator (Renfe), and from what I've seen in Catalonia so far, not counting the normal crappy services, it's been good. Tho, Madrid's whole transport network (Metro and Trains) collapsed yesterday

Direct, clear, informative and humorous...great job mate ;) Would love to see you expand and talk more about this, expecially if you could analize the recent growth of night routes too!

it's so funny to me how the only profitable routes in sweden are stockholm-gothenburg and malmö-stockholm-åre, with the latter being operated only by snälltåget aside from the national operator. Private transit just doesn't work here, it's like when americans assume people would just fly everywhere and i go into a fit of laughter because we have like 10 commercial airports in the entire country and the only routes that see some genuine domestic traffic are between the 3 big cities, the far north, and the one island that is in the middle of the baltic sea. Most of the areas of sweden cannot be reached by plane or private transit, it simply does not exist and cannot exist.

ČD recieves subsidies for the Prague-Brno route! But RegioJet does not.

Hi, one argument I have against open access competition that compete with already existing services: that they only run on profitables routes (obviously), and mostly take clients from the state-owned railway. That means they make less money, as it's used to subsidise smaller routes, it's not a great cycle. In France per example, we have almost 2 competitors on the Paris-Lyon axis because it's the number 1, but you have absolutely nothing on smaller lines. However SNCF has to run the two types of service. However open access can be wonderful to create new services, like European Sleeper per example

another good example is Spain - especially the high-speed market. Italy is making small steps in this direction, currently with one big non-state company (Italo).

I'm not a fan of it. If private companies want to enter the market, they should at the very least cooperate regarding fares and passenger rights. One example: If you have an ICE season ticket between Berlin and Wittenberge, you can use the local trains and ICE as well as EC trains. Now Flixtrain came along and took some paths away from DB, especially in peak hours. So the affected EC trains had to be canceled on that section, instead Flix was now serving the station at that time. But they don't accept these season tickets, which means commuters have to buy a flixtrain ticket for every single time they want to use that train; since Flix themselves doesn't offer any season tickets. And that's just one example. Private operators should be forced to accept certain kinds of tickets, otherwise the system will just get more complex and frustrating for the customer. That's why Generalabo, Klimaticket and Oneticket are so important. But it only really works if everyone participates.

Dont talk about elon musk

Great video man!

In austria we have in addition to regiojet also the westbahn which gives necessary competition to öbb, but also necessary capacity, I think that they are great honestly and much less overcrowded than öbb

Night train operators like European Sleeper could also unlock some latent demand in the rail market (or take passengers from airlines).

6:55 too harsh on the oppidum

Hello Tramly. I have to say that in Romania, we have privatized our rail in the same way. We have 5 operators, state-owned CFR Calatori, Transferoviar Calatori, Regio Calatori, Astra Transcarpatic and Softrans. Transferoviar Calatori and Regio Calatori specialize in small routes, e.g. Ploiesti - Slanic, but also have some longer distance routes. Astra Transcarpatic and Softrans focus on longer services, such as Bucuresti-Constanta or Bucuresti-Brasov. Worth noting both of these companies are subsidiaries of rolling stock companies. I do have to say that in my honest opinion Astra is the best, but Softrans isn't bad either. Their home-made EMUs look kinda bad though. also why is there no liberec-prague direct train service

I would argue that Skoda Karoq as you showed while talking about large suvs is not a great choice. Karoq is still more of a compact SUV even for our Czech market and its not built on a rigid frame as the old school SUVs like Land Cruiser. Cars like Karoq are still quite fine, they are built as normal cars, they just sit a bit higher, they are definitely not way too big for our roads and they pass the standards of EU safety. Yes, its probably better for a pedestrian to be hit by Octavia than Karoq, but I wouldnt see this as a major problem. The unnecessarily huge pick ups, huge SUVs with grills higher than a basketall player are the problem.

It's not just a Prague problem is a world problem ! We have the same problem here in Canada. In some Canadian city only Millionaire can afford a new house. I am lucky to have inherit my parents house. If not i will be living in the street I am an Engineer too.

Great video. About the average salary and cost of the truck in the US vs the EU. Using just the base figures is misleading as taxation is different. The cost of the truck is without sales tax (the percentage varies between states with Alaska, Delaware, Montana, New Hampshire and Oregon with no sales tax) ans salaries might be higher but they do not include services that are included in Europe, like healthcare, education, social benefits etc and together with the far lower prices in Europe for many other essential services and commodities like food, communication, transport, housing etc EU citizens end up with more funds available to them, especially above certain age and for families (young single people can end up a bit better, by by a low margin).

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It's heavy because it has batteries. Cybertruck will get licensed in the EU before 2025. Maybe in neutered form but licensed. EU needs Musk than the other way around.

Having seen one up close now, yeah, it's ugly as hell, is highly space inefficient yet gigantic, and dangerous for everyone around it. But I also noticed how minuscule the trunk looks from the outside. The trunks on any of my old sedans looked more spacious.

EU driver's licences are restricted by maximum authorized mass of 3500kg. So cybertruck entering the EU involves proving that it is not built to carry more than 400kg of people and cargo. Unfortunately, the limit is being raised to 4250kg for EVs due to lobbying of car manufacturers.

I have a suggestion, could you put the numbers you quote on screen when you read them out? I, personally, can barely tell what the numbers are and can't compare them easily too. It common on other short info channels and would make the videos much better to watch for people who have auditory processing issues. Great video as always, I saw a comment asking for a video about cars sizes increasing in general. I'd also like to see that one.

1:30 how convinent! cipre truke already looks like a rusted steel coffin!

Well done, I think I wouldn’t have managed it, I would have taken the anti-Musk tangent and lost the viewers somewhere in my rant. - - - I think there should be a discussion to be done on the overall car sizes evolution. Last year my family had to buy a new car. 20 years ago when we purchased a van-like city car that could be used also for the business it was the tallest of the parking lot. Now there are so many big SUVs that you can not even see that. Also the car that now replaced it bearly fits trough the garage door. And I wonder what does it mean in term of petrol, gas consumption etc. Up to at least 10 years ago in my city I can list at least 5 gas stations closed, now where I live are building a tram line and the building site went across two gas stations and I was happy to see them gone until I realized that they started building them back with twice the number of pomps and some other stations that were abandoned for more than a decade were reopened. Is it really possible that we are actually consuming more fuel?

For the new electric cars I love new Dacia, it has small capacity of batteries, it's small, it is Dacia, and you can drive it to big shopping districts on surroudings of towns and back or on small trip, amazing to cities But I'm suprised I dont see that often as this shit on US roads In God we trust probably

The bloopers are always legendary

I was looking forward to this video and it was even better than expected. Keep up the great work!

No, please no, it can't be legal to drive these in EU.

I would never buy a Tesla to start with, for a simple reason - Elon Musk!

I don’t wanna be mean or anything but it’s “a European perspective”, as Europe makes a “y” sound when read. I think a better title would help the algorithm or will just increase clicks. Otherwise great video