They probably assumed this is like a theme park or something and not an actual city that people actually live in year round. Cities having nice, people friendly places away from cars? Who’s ever heard of that?

  • @SpongyAneurism@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz
    21•11 months ago

    Am German, can confirm. Parking garages do indeed exist here. Germany is very car centric, but fortunately not as bad as the US. Our cities do also have mostly working public infrastructure that makes it possible for lots of people to get to the Christmas market and drink several mugs of mulled wine without the need for overly huge parking garages.

    • @library_napper
      3•11 months ago

      Last time I drank a bunch of mulled wine in Germany during Christmas, I went to the train station and found it was closed.

      Its absurd that the trains dont run all night, especially on holidays where everyone is out drinking and trying to not drive or bike intoxicated

      • @SpongyAneurism@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz
        4•11 months ago

        I agree, there’s definitely room for improvement.

        It seems rare, that the whole train station was closed (probably not one of the bigger cities) and you must have stayed rather late, while christmas markets usually already open in the afternoon (or even earlier) and the sun sets early in their season, so there’s plenty of time to enjoy them while they are most beautiful (at night) and still make it home by train in a lot of places.

        That being said, in more places than you’d expect, you won’t find convenient train connections after midnight, if at all. That makes using public transit almost useless for partying. I remember living in a somewhat rural area as a young partygoer and if I wanted to go to the city for partying, the choice was to either go home before the city folk even really started going, or keep partying until the clubs closed and then hang around with the punks at the railroad station to wait for the first train in the morning. Having a designated driver and going by car was the usual option.

      • @Batadon@lemm.ee
        2•11 months ago

        While it’s nice to have, I don’t think it should be normal to expect train drivers to work all night, especially on holidays.

        • @library_napper
          2•11 months ago

          While its nice to take holdlidays, I dont think its reasonable to shutdown necessary public infrastructure on holidays. Imagine if the electricity and water systems also shutdown on holidays.

          Anyway, humans aren’t needed to operate trains.