• LOGIC💣@lemmy.worldEnglish
    236·
    1 个月前

    Americans can understand if you phrase it differently.

    “You know how sometimes, you go to a big event, and the parking is so far away from the event that they have to ferry people from the parking lots to the event using a bus? Well, this is just like that, except you park at home.”

      • LOGIC💣@lemmy.worldEnglish
        41·
        1 个月前

        Well, even when you park in the parking lot, you have to walk to the area where the bus stops in order to pick you up. For the sake of convenience, let’s call that area a “bus stop.” So, you simply need to find the “bus stop” near your home.

        • MrSmith@lemmy.worldEnglish
          7·
          1 个月前

          I actually lol’d. (not actually, but I’m in a better mood than I was before reading it, so it’s as close to ‘lol’ as it gets)

    • 18107@aussie.zoneEnglish
      12·
      1 个月前

      I refuse to take any kind of public transport. That’s why I carry my own elevator with me in case I need to enter a skyscraper.

    • Luffy@lemmy.mlEnglish
      7·
      1 个月前

      Imagine McDonalds Drive in, but instead of everyone has his own car, everyone has 1 big car they ride in.

  • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
    692·
    1 个月前

    In America, you have thousands in tiny cars. Weak and undisciplined, unable hold more than four people.

    In Germany, one big car on a long steel road carries thousands of people.

  • Marinatorres@lemmy.worldEnglish
    22·
    1 个月前

    Usually it’s transit + walking + park-and-ride, not ‘giant garage under the market.’ When the space is for people, you don’t need to store cars there.

  • jjjalljs@ttrpg.networkEnglish
    21·
    1 个月前

    The worst part is when my fellow Americans are very “we tried nothing and we’re out of ideas” about it. Or worse, actively fighting any changes.

  • Fabrik872@lemmy.worldEnglish
    17·
    1 个月前

    On a christmas markets or similar action i usually go to drink som alcoholic beverages how does it work in us if you have to drive home?

  • eco_game@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    142·
    1 个月前

    Sadly, from my experience in my German city we don’t have the upper hand here. All streets in the city center are completely overcrowded between 4 and 10 pm during our christmas market season. Same with parking garages near the city center.

    • Ephera@lemmy.mlEnglish
      12·
      1 个月前

      To be fair, that’s also then a big motivation to take public transport, when you know you won’t find a parking spot. Kind of difficult to fix that without people rushing in to unfix it.

  • ceenote@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9·
    1 个月前

    The American reaction will either be confusion or envy, there is no in-between.

    I’m the latter.

    • toebhi@slrpnk.netEnglish
      21·
      1 个月前

      But if we are honest, there is a big parking garage right under there xd

        • Warl0k3@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          1 个月前

          This comment has the exact cadence of a german joke translated to english - and I’ve been agonizing between trying to decide if it’s that german kind of “referential humor derived from the extreme awkwardness that arises from a sarcastic comment delivered with a geometrically straight face” or if there really are drunk teenagers that urinate between the cars and you’re just letting us know about that.

  • Gammelfisch@lemmy.worldEnglish
    41·
    1 个月前

    There’s always an “U-Bahn” station nearby. Public transportation and Americans…WTF…and your damn pick-up trucks and SUVs would not fit in the European parking garages!