[santiagobasulto]

Unrelated, but shows the "slow collapse" of Europe (where I live in).

We all know what a big issue Climate Change (and specially warming in Europe) is. So most European politicians go on and on about environment and all that.

Well, yesterday, I went to play football at night and finished at around 10PM. I was planning on taking the metro, as any normal European citizen.

Much was my surprise when I compared the time and cost to a Car Sharing app (Free2move).

The metro in my city is €3,80 and Google Maps estimated a metro travel time of 30 minutes.

I ended up paying €3,64 for the Car and made it home in 19 minutes. Worst part, the car was not even electric.

It makes absolutely no freaking sense.

So yeah, European politicians are just scammers. They're doing their own businesses while claiming to protect the population.

[tossandthrow]

With all respect, the car sharing you used is likely VC subsidized while the metro runs on much lower subsidies.

That said, public city transport should likely just be free. (not so much regional or national transport as the extreme congestion from the Deutschland ticket has shown)

[adastra22]

Ride sharing has not been VC subsidized for many years.

[Mawr]

That doesn't track at all to me as a European also. You must have hit an edge case with the car app. First time customer discount or something.

The cost of a comparable single trip for me would be on the order of 5x more expensive, in favor of public transport.

If we take into account monthly tickets, it'd be on the order of 10x.

This isn't a fluke either, there is simply no way a single occupancy taxi service could ever cost less than mass public transport. You just got lucky.

[santiagobasulto]

A metro ticket for a 1hr trip, yes. For 15 minutes? I doubt it.

[BobaFloutist]

Wow, a Car Sharing app was more expensive in a single case than a metro ticket.

Truly all European politicians are just scammers, and Europe is in a "slow collapse"

How sad.

[mejutoco]

Is that the metro price of a single ticket or proportional for a 10 trip card or similar?

[santiagobasulto]

PER ticket. Extremely expensive for the average salary. Theres a reduced fare that is 2.8 for students and elder citizens