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lark

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10. I lived in Strasbourg France for about 4 weeks 7 years ago.

Sun Jan 13, 2019, 10:47 AM

Jan 2019

We never once rode in a car while we were there. Public transportation was so cheap and abundant. There was the train, the buses, and the trams. The trams ran all through town from 6am until midnight in 15 minute intervals and from 1 = 5 with hourly intervals. Trains ran between towns and we could get to Germany in 15 min. Almost no one owned cars, our friend said when he wanted to go to his girlfriends parents out in the country they either borrowed his mother's' car (she was the only person he knew with a car) or take the train then a taxi. Again, it was easy and inexpensive and no hassle whatsoever. it was also so much quieter without all the car noise, I really hated it when I returned, it is so loud here compared to there. I would be totally ecstatic to have reliable good inexpensive public transit options in places other than the largest cities.

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