What's your daily public transport route?

[Ecthy]

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]

damn that looks a lot...

[Spec]

5 minutes by car

[Pekka]

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

[Ecthy]

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]

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

[Pekka]

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]

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]

Pekka is right. Finland should raise the gasoline tax.


Oh, and 25 minutes by car.

[Pekka]

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]

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

[Stuie]

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]

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

[Jon Miller]

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]

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