What's your daily public transport route?

Ecthy · November 25, 2003, 13:33

Today I thought about how stubborn it all is. Every day the same stations and stops in the same voice. They did employ a lady to speak all the names in Berlin and Brandenburg, but it's less enthusiastic than the Enterprise computer.

So what are your stations if you actually use public transport, and what are they named after? translate them too, if in a language different from English.

Base route in Potsdam (by bus):

Otto-Hahn-Ring (physicist)
Max-Born-Straße (~street) (probably a physicist too)
Johannes-Kepler-Platz (~square) (good ol' one)
Lilienthalstraße (German guy who tried to fly

)
Neuendorfer Straße / Mendelsohn-Bartholdy-Straße (nearby place, musician)
Chopinstraße (musician)
Jagdhausstraße (Jagdhaus = residence castle for nobleman's hunting purposes)
Finanzministerium (

)
In der Aue ("in the meadows")
Am Gehölz ("in the woods")
Rote-Kreuz-Straße (red cross street)
Stahnsdorfer Straße / August-Bebel-Straße (nearby place, German socialist)
S-Bahnhof Griebnitzsee Süd (city train station, local lake, south)

From there on mondays with a regional train:

Potsdam Hauptbahnhof (main station)
Bahnhof Charlottenhof (minor castle near Sanssouci)
Bahnhof Park Sanssouci (park about where the famous likewise named Prussian castle is)
From there by feet to Neues Palais, which is basically some Prussian king's "new palace"

On tuesdays I stay at the uni department in Griebnitzsee

Wednesdays and thursdays I stay on the bus:

Karl-Marx-Straße / Rudolf-Breitscheid-Straße (German philosopher, German socialist [methinks])
Otto-Erich-Straße (damned if I know the fella)
Freiligrathstraße (no idea)
Fontanestraße (Brandenburgian poet and novelist)
Planatgenstraße (there must have been some plantation there)
Goetheplatz (~square) (German poet and novelist and...)
Scheffelstraße (no idea)
Hermann-Maaßstraße (ugh)
Karl-Marx-Straße / Behringstraße (inventor of communism again, Danish explorer)
Schloss Babelsberg (another castle in Potsdam)

So these are my bus stops and train stations. Shortest journey takes 13 minutes (tuesdays), longest takes 40 minutes (mondays). Boring? Yes. Will you add your own information? None the less.

Ecthy · November 25, 2003, 13:33

damn that looks a lot...

Spec · November 25, 2003, 13:34

5 minutes by car

Pekka · November 25, 2003, 13:35

car. Kill the environment and happy doing so. Die greenies Die!

Ecthy · November 25, 2003, 13:36

I do public transport for free. Well that is for a relatively small amount of money considering I can travel all around the federal state AND the capital by public transport for no additional cost.

Go Semesterticket

ixnay · November 25, 2003, 13:43

I walk between my classes. It's a 3-minute walk.

Pekka · November 25, 2003, 13:43

You want to hear something funny? TO drive a car, using the routes I do (same route as the bus) is cheaper than to hop on the bus

. Make any sense? Of course it doesn't. Welcome to communist stinkhole.

Ecthy · November 25, 2003, 13:45

Communism would prefer cheap public transport, but I get your point. It's too expensive unless you can get a good deal as Potsdam students like me do

Apart from that, my father's car got broken so I had to hand over the one I had used so far. Bye Fiesta

Az · November 25, 2003, 13:47

Pekka is right. Finland should raise the gasoline tax.

Oh, and 25 minutes by car.

Pekka · November 25, 2003, 13:48

Yeah that's true, about communism.. I guess we're the failed version then

.

We don't get student discounts on busses.. it has to be over 80kms before you do get discount..

What a joke. But to be fair, I kind of still would go with the car, except if it was very cheap to use the bus. Car is just too convinient.

Ecthy · November 25, 2003, 13:51

Car is nice, but too stressful in these 2 cities (Potsdam and the big B).

Stuie · November 25, 2003, 14:09

I don't use public transport for work. If I took the train (the R5 for all you Philly fans), it would take 1 hour and 35 minutes just to get from station to station (and that's "express".....). Then I'd have to catch a shuttle to work. So probably two hours one way.

Get in car and drive: 35 minutes.

Stay home for the next five days: Priceless.

Ecthy · November 25, 2003, 14:10

stay home at this end as well, got a flu that appears to have spread uni-wide

Jon Miller · November 25, 2003, 14:24

20 to 30 minutes walk usually

recently hospital is
20 minute walk (or short bus ride)
4 minute metro ride (And wait)
30-40 minute walk or 6 minute bus ride (but I am never patient enough to wait for the bus)

the problem with me and mass transit is that I am never patient enough to use it

so usually I stay home

Jon Miller

Andrew1999 · November 25, 2003, 14:40

What is this "public transport" of which you speak?

Snotty · November 25, 2003, 15:01

I step outside my front door, and thats when I start work.

My commute home is slightly longer as I have to walk back from the pavement to my door

My friend had an office at home. He woke up, crossed the hall, and was at work. In his pants...

Mercator · November 25, 2003, 15:31

There are no buses between my livingroom and my bedroom.

Japher · November 25, 2003, 15:37

PT is a joke here. It takes me 15 minutes to drive to work (about 20 miles), and it would take me 1.5 hours if I were to take the bus. The streets I take mostly have spanish names, or are after what use to be around; De Anza, Page Mill, El Camino Real, El Monty, Moody (not sure why), and Steven's Creek...

Brundlefly · November 25, 2003, 15:49

Monday-Friday.

Amtrak train. 1hr 15minute trip Exton, PA to Harrisburg, PA.

Stations:

Exton
Downingtown
Coatesville
Parkesburg
Lancaster
Mount Joy
Elizabethtown
Middletown
Harrisburg

Stuie · November 25, 2003, 16:13

Quote:

Originally posted by bfg9000
Monday-Friday.

Amtrak train. 1hr 15minute trip Exton, PA to Harrisburg, PA.

You commute from Exton to Harrisburg? Yuck.

At least someone else is doing the driving, though.

Arrian · November 25, 2003, 17:31

~30 minute drive up Rte9 and Rte91 to Hartford, plus a ~10 minute walk to the office from the parking garage (Htfd parking sucks ass. 10 minutes = the other side of the "city").

-Arrian

Kyle · November 25, 2003, 17:44

Leaving out minor streets...MD 100 to I-97 to MD 3-> Crofton ~35 minutes, 20 miles each way.

Occassionally, ...MD 3 to Rt. 50 to I-495 to Rt. 66->Gainsville, VA. 166 miles round trip.

GePap · November 25, 2003, 18:08

Lets see: On the A line:

181st Street (my stop)
175th Street
168th Street
145th Street
125th Street
59th Street (express line)
42nd Street-Times Square (named after the NY Times)

then the #7 line:

42nd Street-Times Square
5th Avenue
Grand Central (biggest train station in the US)
Vernon-Jackson
45th Rd-Court Square
Queensbridge Plaza
33rd Street
40th Street
46th Street (my office stop)

Arrian · November 25, 2003, 18:17

How long does that typically take, GePap?

-Arrian

GePap · November 25, 2003, 18:23

From end to end? 1 hour. can be as short as 45 minutes, can be as long as 1.25 hours, but one hour from my doorway to my office doorway is a very good estimate.