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[@educate9946]

I was in Karlsruhe some months ago. It's a bit weird because they have U train stations with S train services that are actually trams lol. But confusing aside, really nice system they have there and overall a really nice city.

[@NeidhardtDerBlitzschnelle]

It's called "TramTrain"

[@nicolasblume1046]

At least they made the "U" sign yellow 😅 (the original U-Bahn sign is White with a blue background)

[@HelloOnepiece]

I mean that can be said about almost any bigger german city, they really like to mix ubahn,sbahn, snd trams together

[@BellaPalomaHeidelberg]

This trains are really bad !!!

[@huliganalter6095]

U didn’t show that these trains going on the big railways from DB (:

[@SpotterCrazyperson]

Mooie stations! Leuke (gekoppelde) trams/metro's!

[@MrTramDriverGhent]

5:35 had die bestuurder nu zijn vingers in zijn oren?

[@BorisLu]

Nice film!

[@TheMexxodus]

Nice video. Personally I'm not a fan of those white sterile U-bahn stations that look like the basement of a huge hospital. They're not very welcoming, cold, and I doubt they will stay this clean for long. Unfortunately it's a trend, the Paris metro is going to open a new section on line 12 in the suburbs and the stations in a preview video on youtube look exactly like these ones, white, lots of steel, bland boxy walls, raw concrete, wihite led-lamps - so-called 'modern design language' - but it's sterile, uninviting, bland and blank canvas for taggers/grafitti artists.

[@stawkee]

Thank god. More tagging spots

[@bahnspotterEU]

Agree, Karlsruhe's stations are super boring and uniform. I think it's a detrimental factor when the stations are only identifiable by name. Berlin's U5 extension has shown how to do appealing new stations.

[@kugelblitz4419]

Theyre still very clean and well maintained!!

[@BellaPalomaHeidelberg]

SMASH SEXISM !!!

[@alexandermathar7780]

What happens when you accidentaly switch to 600 V DC under 15 KV AC wire ? Does the train explode ?

[@nicolasdvr]

you can’t switch manually. it’s fully automatically.

[@kyah117]

Whut, never seen the yellow and green train. What's that ?

[@bijantari3078]

Its a hommage to the AVG´s (Albtal-Verkehrsgesellschaft) 70s design, which was yellow/green, the second operator (of our S-Bahn lines, except S2) in Karlsruhe.

[@kyah117]

@@bijantari3078 Oh well thanks !!

[@Fdhdhdggj]

Geil

[@ncard00]

Bus Rapid Transit is WAY better than Light Rail, it’s many times cheaper, much more silent, and much easier to get the car happy politicians to vote for, cause of the cost benefit ratio. Also, upgrade the video quality to 4K60fps! :)

[@TheWillystyla]

Not really, light rail have bigger capacity and in Karlsruhe it travels also far in to the suburbs

[@ICEkalt]

Absolutely not, construction cost is not much less than a light rail system, because you still have to provide infrastructure to operate a proper BRT system (own lanes, stops etc.). The operation costs are much higher on a bus system, because you need more drivers per passenger in comparison to light rail systems and rail vehicles are more durable in general. The cost overhead of a rail system is still there, but not that huge. In the timespan of a few years a rail system has economically outperformed a BRT system. German cities are aware of this: Politicians in a lot of german cities want their tram systems back, and barely any BRT systems are planned because of the economic factors. If you have very limited money to invest, BRT still might be a choice for your city. And of course, Busses outside of BRT systems are way less costly than Rail systems, but also provide poor capacity.