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We did a trip to the US that covered coast to coast by plane and then 5000k of driving back to the centre… And their pretend pricing sucked.

Every state we went to advertised a price, but what you actually paid varied by heaps.

Bought some clothes that were something like $700USD by the tag, and had $1000USD on hand… Which wasn’t enough once they rang it up! Wtf?

So the rail networks are operated by private companies? I am not familiar with the various acronyms, but that would certainly explain the complexity… Everyone wanting their slice of the pie.

It certainly looks complicated:

Transport services are provided by over 40 companies. These include the Bayerische Oberlandbahn, the Deutsche Bahn that also operates the S-Bahn, the Münchner Verkehrsgesellschaft that operates the U-Bahn, tramway and city buses, together with multiple operators of regional trains and buses.

We (Queensland, Australia) have 50 cent fares at the minute - any public transport, no matter the distance / zone / etc is a flate rate of $0.50AUD. I assume any private interests are being compensated with tax dollars but at least it makes public transport simple and affordable.

There was recently a change from a Labor government (centrist?) to a Liberal government (right / conservative) so I suspect the 50c fares will be removed at some point, though they did make it permanent as part of an election promise. “Permanent” is a pretty flexible term from a politician though.

I am not educated in public transport logistics, but why do they make ticket prices so obnoxiously difficult?

It’s seemingly a worldwide issue so there just be a reason.

… Which I assume is “money”.

I’m sure Android (well, Samsung anyway) had this years ago… I remember it on my i7500 back in the 1.5 days.

I wonder when it went missing…

I’m not even a member of lemm.ee and was aware of it closing today^*

^* - timezone dependent but +/-24hours.

I’m on Tildes, and it’s a good site for discussion without the constant memes and accusations of everyone being a communist / not communist / slightly communist / whatever else seems to get thrown around on Lemmy.

Not real sure why RIF dude chose that site to write an app for though. The site itself is basically exactly the same as the app. Very clean, very simple, no wasted space. It’s even better than old.reddit at prioritising content over pretty pictures.

Lemmy would benefit much more from a RIF app, even if Voyager and the like do a pretty good job as it stands.

Who cares? If your upvote or downvote or any other activity you deliberately perform on a public platform is something you’re embarrassed about and wouldn’t be willing to do in a face to face engagement you probably shouldn’t be doing it.