This is an excellent explanation for a vast transportation network. I lived in Frankfurt for eleven years and found the system to be wonderful to get to any destination with ease.
Public transportation is very good here in Germany. You can get everywhere for most of the day no problem in any city. Only small villages might have problems with one Bus comming 4 times a day or so. Even bigger villages often have an S-Bahn station with trains comming every 20 minutes. Only in the middle of the night, for a few lonely hours, they trains don't move. I live in North Rhine-Westphalia close to the Ruhrgebiet so public transportation is pretty much amazing here. Sure, it might be a bit confusing for non-locals at first. Here in Düsseldorf the U-Bahn sometimes has has longer parts above the ground than the Sraßenbahn (our term for "Stadtbahn"), so try expaining why we call it subway. On the other hand, I had no problem getting around in Lonon with public transportation, the subway was my best friend over there. It wasn't really any more difficult compared to Germany. You only need to know 1) where you are 2) where you need to go and 3) in which direction your train is moving. I'm 28 years old and I don't have a driver's licence. I simply never felt the need to get one. The only times I wish I had one, is when the Deutsche Bahn is on strike again, but even then I usually come around pretty good with alternative regional public transportation.
I guess you grew up in a more urban area? I know many people that grew up in Berlin (where I currently live) and feel the same way about driving. I however grew up in a small village in Hesse, and without a driver's license, you were pretty much helpless there. And I'm only 8 years older than you. And while I could get a monthly ticket for Berlin's public transport at a strongly reduced price, I still like moving about the city on my scooter more than I do on trains and busses. Recently, I even bought a car again (although it isn't fully operational yet) in order to be able to travel outside the city without so much stress, in order to visit friends and family in Hesse, because it's just so much more convenient if you go somewhere to stay for a couple of weeks, so you have a bit of luggage, which makes using trains or coaches for travelling a real pain. Somehow, owning a car gives me a feeling of freedom, even if it's just a small, old one.
Very nice. There is one thing to add. In case you have an Android phone, you want to install the Öffi app. It works in most German cities and provides address to address search all well tailored to correspond with signs usually found around public transport stations.
Actually, to get to Merianplatz, your U-Bahn is the U4 either with the final destination "Enkheim" OR "Seckbacher Landstraße", as every other U4 train only travels up to that station. It's printed in bold on the map. So sometimes one line may have several possible final destinations. To make things more confusion, the trains going to Seckbacher Landstraße will have "Bornheim" written in the first line on their front, followed by a smaller "Seckbacher Landstraße", because that station is within the district of Bornheim. Whereas Enkheim is the name both of the station and the district it is in.
No objection. It is just a question tourists asked me very often once they arrived at the platform, so I thought sharing this information might help someone. I semi-regularly was asked on that very platform by travellers who wondered whether they were on the right one because the sign on the U-Bahn confused them. It's also a somewhat recent change, so maybe some people who haven't visited in a while might be puzzled.
Hey, ich wusste zwar schon einiges über Frankfurt uns seinen ÖPNV, aber das hat mich echt nochmal ein Stückchen weiter gebracht. Ich mache am übernächsten Samstag nämlich einen sehr kurzen Ausflug nach Frankfurt. Keep it up. :D
Great video and fully correct (I'm a Frankfurt resident). I add that the stop announcements in the U-Bahn (subway) and Straßenbahn (tram) via loudspeaker will be first spoken in German and then repeated in English (and not the worst!).
They announce every little stop in both languages? Wow, that's quite the advancement over here in Berlin, where in the U-Bahn you're lucky if you understand the announcement in the first place over the noise the train makes, and in general (S-Bahn, U-Bahn, Tram and bus) only certain parts of certain stops are repeated in English, i.e. "change here for bus service to Tegel airport", but not the name of the stop itself, because it often is just that: A name, which can't be translated.
Only trains and buses passing/going through the Messe, Berlin Hbf, Berlin-Tegel, and Berlin-Schönefeld airports have the English sentences. I do like the English voice of the S-Bahn when it says "Passengers travelling to Schönefeld airport, please change here." Sounds like a proper British guy.
That's mostly how public transport works in almost every big city in Germany although construction works are no nasty surprises but very common in the city of Stuttgart. (And will be for at least -and that is the most optimistic guess- five more years. Most likely it will rather last for twenty years.)
Ahh Frankfurt Hbf, I had an overnight stay there earlier this year due to a Belgian strike delaying my incoming train and making me miss a connection. That wasn't a fun night.
Das Video hätt' mir vor zwei Jahren geholfen, als ich eine Woche in einem Hotel am Frankfurter Ostbahnhof war. In der Woche bin ich aber nur einmal Taxi und sonst mit der Tram gefahren.
While U-Bahn and S-Bahn are distinguished by the letters in front of the numbers, trams and busses are not told apart in that way. They both just have a two digit number in most cases. Trams range from 11 to 21 and busses start at 30.
Cologne makes a small adjustment to the number system by giving buses a three digit number, while trams (which all go by the term "Bahn" in common parlance) have a two digit number. Cologne has a so-called "Stadt-Bahn", meaning trams and subway trains are the same. Lots of lines go partly above and partly below ground between start and finish.
Since trams and buses are operated by the local transport organisation/union/federation, they will have their own identification system. However, most German cities use a numerical system for both. For instance here in Dessau, - trams use single digits (Line 1 and Line 3); - buses travelling within Dessau use 10-19, and those going to Roßlau and the northern "Randzone" use 20; - night buses use the letter N with a number (N1-N5) - and buses going out of Dessau-Roßlau, like buses to Aken, Lutherstadt Wittenberg, or Köthen, use triple digits
I lived in Frankfurt am Main the summers of 1993 and 1994. There used to be a very "simple" fare scheme called "Fahr Bunt" until it was changed in 1995 to allow for adding zones past the "blue zone" as the yellow was the city zone, then there was green, red and blue. I would buy a Monatskarte for about DM 93, valid only in the yellow zone, just fine up to and including Frankfurt's Nieder-Eschbach where I worked, or even as far as Fechenheim, no need to buy yet another ticket. Frankfurt Airport had an interesting situation for day passes, between the airport and the city, you would be entirely in the yellow zone, but for a single ticket you had to buy a ticket for the green and the yellow zones, two in total.
Wow Laura you are beautiful :) Marry me please so that I can easily get citizenship or shorten the period needed to get it :p I will love you I promise
And if your disabled or pushing a pram or walking with a walking frame/Zimmer, Frankfurt is a good place to be. It’s not perfect, but there are lifts or slopes up to the platform levels, The trains and trams all stop at platform level. Amazingly even the busses lean over at the bus stops (tilt) to make the step into the bus as low as possible.
Deine Videos gefallen mir alle sehr gut, nicht nur die, die etwas mit der Bahn zu tun haben :-) Hier möchte ich mich ausnahmsweise auch einmal äußern: Die Tageskarten kosten seit etwa 1-2 Jahren in den meisten Fällen sogar weniger als zwei Einzelfahrkarten. Ansonsten sehr schön recherchiert und erklärt, wie immer!
Woohoo first like :D I was shopping in Frankfurt just today. In case a person doesn't know which line they have to take they can in most cases just ask in english, most people in Frankfurt are actually capable of speaking english :)
+Benjamin Eßer In some parts of Berlin, I think the same thing. It freaks me out, because in others, you're lucky if you can understand the German they're speaking.
In one video (can´t remember which) you said you aren´t a public transport enthusiast. The amount of videos you made on this topic tells me that this is a lie. (And I love you for that)
Somehow I'm not sure what kind of transport +rewboss enjoys the most. If he isn't a public transport enthusiast, he still uses it a lot for that, and only seems to do very little traveling by car. The problem with any means of transportation is that it costs money, maybe that's the reason?
Plus the fact that it is suicide to enter a big german city by car at rush hour, if you don't really need it. You will be starved to death in your car before you get out of the traffic jam... So even if you aren't a public transport enthusiast, it is just common sense to switch to trains and busses.
ThamiorSilberdrache But, really, do you know rush hour in other big cities over the world? I think Germany is among the least bad in comparison. Or at least, most German cities are. And that is probably due to the fact that we usually do have rather acceptable public transport systems so many people don't take the car.
Seegal Galguntijak Well, I didn't state it is less suicidal to enter Shanghai or Manhattan by car on rush hour, did I? Maybe "entering the city by car on rush hour is suicide" is just a statemnt that holds for almost every big city in the world. And yes, we have an acceptable public transport system in most big cities (although the prices sometimes aren't. Stuttgart has the most expensive public transport system in Europe...). Doesn't mean it's always sufficient to transport all the masses it needs to. If you, for example, enter a S-Bahn from Stuttgart Haupbahnhof to the University at around 9:15am you'll realise that those guys pressing pessengers into trians with broom-like stikes from reports of China or Japan aren't just a east-asian thing. Ok, that guys in Stuttgart don't use sticks, but there are workers of the public transport system trying to fit more people into already overcrowded S-Bahns. And still, you'll get into Stuttgart by far more comfortable and by far faster on rush hour if you use a train. I'd be rather pressed in an overcrowded S-Bahn for 10 minutes then to spend two and a half hour for only three kilometers in the daily traffic jam on Stuttgart Pragsattel...
ThamiorSilberdrache I personally like moving through Berlin on my scooter the most. Yes, you could also end up in a jam, but you could just as well just drive by and pass it (illegally, I know, but who cares - it's one vehicle less that's jammed up there). But actually, I would recommend a bike for most ways you have to make inside a city. OK, since Stuttgart is quite hilly, maybe an e-bike so you don't have to exhaust yourself.
Zu den Einzelfahrkarten (ich hole mir inzwischen meist Tagestickets, weil das für mich günstiger ist): Mit den Fahrtunterbrechungen sehen die Kontrolleure das nicht so, bzw. können es gar nicht feststellen. Als Beispiel: Ich möchte von Kronberg zur Nordweststadt! Welche Möglichkeiten gibt es für mich? 1. Busverbindung von Kronberg zur Nordweststadt 2. S-Bahn bis Rödelheim, dann Umsteigen in einen Bus zur Nordweststadt 3. S-Bahn bis Frankfurt West. Fußweg bis zur Haltestelle Juliusstraße (Straßenbahn). Ginnheim Endstation. Umsteigen in die U1 zur Nordweststadt. 4. Mit der S4 nach Frankfurt, Hauptwache. Umsteigen in die U1 zur Nordweststadt. 5. Mit dem Bus in Richtung Bad Homburg, bis Oberursel Bahnhof fahren. Umsteigen in die U3 in Richtung Südbahnhof, Umsteigen in Niederursel, Wiesenau oder Zeilweg in die U9 oder U1 zur Nordweststadt. Ich wette es gibt noch mehr Variationen, abder die aufgeführten habe ich alle ausprobiert. Es ist mehr oder weniger unmöglich festzustellen, ob eine Fahrtunterbrechung durchgeführt worden ist!
Just in case if you plan to leave Frankfurt you can get a Hessenticket. You can go to Kassel (NVV) then, Worms (VRN) and Mainz (also in the RMV system - historical reasons, Mainz joined the FVV, thus now part of the RMV). For students in Middle/southern hessen, it can happen that your Student ID is already your ticket to all three systems (most cases)... Unfortunately, the Hessenticket costs about 34 Euros...
Zeemon OK, that makes sense somewhat, but isn't that obvious when looking at the platforms and tracks? I thought along the lines of "this is a stop for two different means of public transport", like tram and bus...
+rewboss I think they are all pretty much similar in principle, only the details will vary (like which means of public transport there are and what tickets are available). I think I remember you made a similar video about Berlin, although it may be that this was back in the days when your videos included a more pronounced bit of humor, and so it may not have been as informative. Still, with the knowledge of this video, it is also possible to find your way in Berlin's public transport system, as long as you have the map, which should be self-explanatory. Or you get the "Öffi" app on your smartphone, which does show you all the maps and helps you plan your route from station A to station B (or from any address within a city to another address within the same city).
I visited Frankfurt less than a month ago and the public transport there is amazing. One thing that could be fixed is the utter barbarity that is: "Ausstieg auf der Straße, bitte Sie Verkehr beachten!" I'm glad that there is at least one way in which my city, Zagreb, is beating a city of similar size with a dozen skyscrapers and a lot of underground lines.
Maybe it should have also been worth mentioning the "Gruppentageskarte" which, as the name suggests, is valid for one day and for a group of up to five. In my experience, it often saves money when travelling in a group of two or maybee three.
Will you make a video about the differences between tram, streetcar, light rail, U-Bahn, Stadtbahn and Straßenbahn? All describe a form of public transit on rails but the terms seem to be assigned at random
Is very simple : Light Rail =Tram=Straßenbahn. S Bahn (Schnellbahn) Without rail road cross Is it a synonym for some System For regio Trains or/and for U Bahn ( rail wide are 1435mm) They are faster than light Rail and more room between the station. U Bahn : Here are give two systems : The original U Bahn system have 4 City's in Germany not more! The original U Bahn have: Berlin Frankfurt Munich* Hamburg Some another German City's have a underground train system, but this is a underground Light Rail! The different: U Bahn=1435mm and the Energie for the elektric Motor came from a System behind the rail, not from a wire over the Rail. Bus, here give 2 systems : The noraly with Diesel Bus and with a elektrik wire (alias light Rail)
Are there posters/enamel signs on the platform walls, or by staircases, escalators, lifts etc., that show each station that U- and S-Bahn trains stop at?
Wieder ein schönes Video. Mache doch mal Urlaub auf Rügen oder im Harz und berichte über die Schmalspurdampfeisenbahnen dort. Die HSB und den rasenden Roland. Oder die Bäderbahn Molli, welche auf der Straße mitten durch eine Stadt dampft. Nur mal so als Vorschlag. Daumen hoch und Grüße Mega
I wish I'd seen this video before I flew in to Frankfurt last March, on my way to Bad Homburg. I assumed S-Bahn was Straßenbahn (tram), and knowing I wanted a train via Frankfurt Hauptbahnhof (central station), I looked elsewhere. I ended up asking a (very helpful) cleaner, who kindly directed me to the platforms I had assumed weren't for me. One thing not mentioned in the video: you can go from the airport to the Hauptbahnhof by ICE, but if you do, you can't use the standard ticket; it costs more. Just one more thing to add to the confusion!
This is due to the fact ice (inter city express) are part of the Deutsche Bahn railway system meanwhile S, U, tram and Busses are part of the VGF two almost completely seperate systems
Because the Inter-City and the Inter-City-Express (ICE) are solely operated by the Deutsche Bahn (DB), the national railway company. All the other trains/trams/busses are operated by the by the RMV, a joint-venture between the transport authorities of several municipalities in the Rhein-Main area, including Frankfurt's own public transport authority (the VGF), and DB Regio Rhein-Main, a regional subsidiary of Deutsche Bahn, which operates the S-Bahn and regional trains. The rolling-stock of the S-Bahn Rhein-Main and the regional trains have the RMV logo at the side of the driver's cabin, and a a sleeve in the colours of the RMV running along the top of their trains. You can use one ticket for everything (depending on destination) on the RMV network, but not on the IC and ICE, because those are DB only.
You forgot the most important thing, how to buy the right ticket on a "Fahrkartenautomat". 20 years ago, the last time i use the public transport, it was very complicatet.
Well, things are much less complicated now. Ticket machines have multi-lingual touch-screen displays: select your language, and it walks you through the process of selecting your ticket.
I find it still complicated. If you want to have a bike ticket in Westphalia, you have to choose "Enschede" as destination since bike tickets to Münster are not available. But the price is the same. Many people complain about that. The train company (Eurobahn) wants to make you pay for a bike month ticket. So you cannot get a bike single ride ticket at the ticket machine inside of the train anymore. Ticket machines at the stations are rare here, they don't exist in every town or village. So one must buy the ticket in the train.
Have they stopped selling those rush hour tickets which are more expensive ? Is there still no mark on the line map (S-Bahn/UBahn) where the Frankfurt zone ends ?
@@---zx9zf It's actually the U2, which drives to Bad Homburg, and U3, which drives to Oberusel, which leave Frankfurt. No other rail line outside of the S-Bahn leave the city, not even to Offenbach. To the OP (should you be able to read it): The transit map (at least for 2022) shows where the Frankfurt fare zone starts and ends. In addition, there is an announcement at the stations of Nieder-Eschbach and Niederursel that these are the last stations of the U-Bahn. There is none for the S-Bahn, though, primarily because of the more regional service (i.e. it serves more cities than just Frankfurt and its satellite towns).
no need to 'entwerten' the tickets? so frankfurt dont have "Streifenkarte" tickets then? and how does the inspector know the validity and the travel origin?
studiosnch Yes, I imagine the date and time must be printed on the ticket, but with the Entwerter machine they also stamp some codes that indicate the station/stop and the direction of travel so that one can work out whether you're taking a round trip (since that's officially not allowed for single trip tickets), but I guess nobody's got time to care about that anyway. All the inspector sees is only the date & time. :) I reckon the only downside of the Frankfurt system is that you cannot buy blank tickets in advance and use it later, and without Entwerter machines, there can't be sth like Streifenkarte (which is quite convenient).
The ticket has also printed the starting station on it, so if you try to do a roundtrip and after 2 hours you get controlled close to your starting station, I would like to hear that excuse,lol
So you did not cover a topic. Are there special fares for transiting special zones in Frankfurt ?... like how much cost a ticket from Frankfurt for Offenbach .... is the same way a round ? Or the prices are separate for zones ?
Do tickets in Frankfurt aM have the purchase time printed already, therefore negating the need for stamping it on a validation machine? AFAIK Hannover also has an almost similar system.
Yes! Tickets of the RMV have the time and date of purchase printed. They have printed the place where they was bought too. And they have printed the fare zones where the ticket is valid.
The system in Hanover is slightly different. The tickets you get on buses and at üstra ticket machines are valid immediately, while those you get at kiosks and normal ticket machines need to be stamped for validation. If the ticket you get is more like a strip of paper, you need to stamp it. The other ones are slightly bigger. Source: I live nearby.
Ach yes now I remember. We usually bought our tickets from the üstra machines, hence no need for the stamping. Danke! Ich habe es fast alles vergessen, hab ich aber nur in Dezember letztes Jahr die Stadt besucht.
I'm pretty sure back when I used to visit my mother in the Berufsgenossenschaftliche Unfallklinik, they didn't have that vaguely unpleasant color. On the other hand, that was something like twenty years ago ...
Yes, RMV started coming into existence back in those days. The blue-ish green is the color of RMV (Rhein-Main-Verkehrsverbund), now all over the southern half of Hesse. They've had a different color before.
Achtung Andrew: Für die Wochenkarte in Frankfurt ist der Besitz eines dieser komischen Chipkarten vom E-Ticket voraussetzung ... ohne die verkauft der Automat keine. Solltest du vielleicht noch irgendwo einbauen. Meineserachtens kannst du nämlich am Flughafen keine Wochenkarte als ankommender bekommen - oder gibt es da irgendwo einen RMV/DB-Stand in Terminal 1 ... im Fernbahnhof das Reisezentrum ist nämlich glaube ich ohne RMV-Verkauf
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Der ÖPNV der Stadt Hamburg ist ganz iteressant, da neben U- und S-Bahn und Bussen (Straßenbahnen hat Hamburg nicht (mehr), noch Schiffs- respektive Fährverkehr gibt. Im Ausland fand ich Kopenhagen und Göteborg ganz interessant. Göteborg hat kontaktlose RFID-Fahrkarten und auch Fährverkehr.
Yes and no. In some cities like Munich and central Berlin it's hard to find a place to life, but not because of the refugees. In some other cities - especially in former east Germany - there are even to much empty flats/houses.
Berlin and Munich rental prices are some of the highest in Germany, to add. 500€ can only get you a really small flat with nothing on it, unless you find one in the suburbs or be really lucky.
Has nothing to do with refugees, Frankfurt is a booming city. The city adds over 12000 new citizens every year and of course you can not build apt buildings this fast to keep up with demand. Hence, higher rent prices
you live in German most RUclipsrs I find live in Japan America but I didn't know I would find a RUclipsr that lives in German oh I forgot to tell you Spanish counts too but I'm mostly skip their videos I don't want to learn Spanish so I thought the video so much
Cash should be the norm everwhere in this world. You want the digital currency? Have you started thinking already. In general people stopped being reasonable some time ago, but I don''t know exactly when that happened. I was just surprised and perplexed when I noticed it. Now crayziness and stupidity (not thinking whatsoever) is the norm. That's the essential reason why cashlessness is favoured these days. And people even want to be enslaved. After the last three years I lost the last vestige of hope for this godless and declining western society that's being destroyed right now (while they are trying to find out what "gender" they are).
I remember when I lived in this shit city, that the bus drive who worked for a sub sub sub sub sub company for 4,50 Euro an hour, gave always fullgas. He hammered the gas pedal of the Daimler bus to the floor when the traffic light switched to Green. He was a muslim and frustrated that he must work for such a low wage ! It was funny to drive with the bus, when he was sitting behind the wheel : D i enjoyed it when I heard the screaming boiling engine in the back and the other passengers looked worried, when we have accelerated from 0 to 80km/h in 5 seconds :D!
This is an excellent explanation for a vast transportation network. I lived in Frankfurt for eleven years and found the system to be wonderful to get to any destination with ease.
This video seems very useful for people who are foreign to German public transport. Well done.
Just what I needed! Short, clear, and to the points
This guy is awesome (I've been subbed for mouths now).
I've been subbed for several years, and I still concur that rewboss's videos are always worth looking forward to.
Public transportation is very good here in Germany. You can get everywhere for most of the day no problem in any city. Only small villages might have problems with one Bus comming 4 times a day or so. Even bigger villages often have an S-Bahn station with trains comming every 20 minutes. Only in the middle of the night, for a few lonely hours, they trains don't move.
I live in North Rhine-Westphalia close to the Ruhrgebiet so public transportation is pretty much amazing here. Sure, it might be a bit confusing for non-locals at first. Here in Düsseldorf the U-Bahn sometimes has has longer parts above the ground than the Sraßenbahn (our term for "Stadtbahn"), so try expaining why we call it subway. On the other hand, I had no problem getting around in Lonon with public transportation, the subway was my best friend over there. It wasn't really any more difficult compared to Germany. You only need to know 1) where you are 2) where you need to go and 3) in which direction your train is moving.
I'm 28 years old and I don't have a driver's licence. I simply never felt the need to get one. The only times I wish I had one, is when the Deutsche Bahn is on strike again, but even then I usually come around pretty good with alternative regional public transportation.
I guess you grew up in a more urban area? I know many people that grew up in Berlin (where I currently live) and feel the same way about driving. I however grew up in a small village in Hesse, and without a driver's license, you were pretty much helpless there. And I'm only 8 years older than you.
And while I could get a monthly ticket for Berlin's public transport at a strongly reduced price, I still like moving about the city on my scooter more than I do on trains and busses. Recently, I even bought a car again (although it isn't fully operational yet) in order to be able to travel outside the city without so much stress, in order to visit friends and family in Hesse, because it's just so much more convenient if you go somewhere to stay for a couple of weeks, so you have a bit of luggage, which makes using trains or coaches for travelling a real pain. Somehow, owning a car gives me a feeling of freedom, even if it's just a small, old one.
Very nice. There is one thing to add. In case you have an Android phone, you want to install the Öffi app. It works in most German cities and provides address to address search all well tailored to correspond with signs usually found around public transport stations.
Actually, to get to Merianplatz, your U-Bahn is the U4 either with the final destination "Enkheim" OR "Seckbacher Landstraße", as every other U4 train only travels up to that station. It's printed in bold on the map. So sometimes one line may have several possible final destinations.
To make things more confusion, the trains going to Seckbacher Landstraße will have "Bornheim" written in the first line on their front, followed by a smaller "Seckbacher Landstraße", because that station is within the district of Bornheim. Whereas Enkheim is the name both of the station and the district it is in.
I was specifically talking about how to find the right platform.
No objection. It is just a question tourists asked me very often once they arrived at the platform, so I thought sharing this information might help someone. I semi-regularly was asked on that very platform by travellers who wondered whether they were on the right one because the sign on the U-Bahn confused them. It's also a somewhat recent change, so maybe some people who haven't visited in a while might be puzzled.
Hey, ich wusste zwar schon einiges über Frankfurt uns seinen ÖPNV, aber das hat mich echt nochmal ein Stückchen weiter gebracht. Ich mache am übernächsten Samstag nämlich einen sehr kurzen Ausflug nach Frankfurt. Keep it up. :D
Great video and fully correct (I'm a Frankfurt resident). I add that the stop announcements in the U-Bahn (subway) and Straßenbahn (tram) via loudspeaker will be first spoken in German and then repeated in English (and not the worst!).
They announce every little stop in both languages? Wow, that's quite the advancement over here in Berlin, where in the U-Bahn you're lucky if you understand the announcement in the first place over the noise the train makes, and in general (S-Bahn, U-Bahn, Tram and bus) only certain parts of certain stops are repeated in English, i.e. "change here for bus service to Tegel airport", but not the name of the stop itself, because it often is just that: A name, which can't be translated.
Only trains and buses passing/going through the Messe, Berlin Hbf, Berlin-Tegel, and Berlin-Schönefeld airports have the English sentences.
I do like the English voice of the S-Bahn when it says "Passengers travelling to Schönefeld airport, please change here." Sounds like a proper British guy.
studiosnch Oh yes, I know exactly what you mean. Sounds like "someone should maybe pull the stick out of the rear of this poor guy", LOL.
That's mostly how public transport works in almost every big city in Germany although construction works are no nasty surprises but very common in the city of Stuttgart. (And will be for at least -and that is the most optimistic guess- five more years. Most likely it will rather last for twenty years.)
Ahh Frankfurt Hbf, I had an overnight stay there earlier this year due to a Belgian strike delaying my incoming train and making me miss a connection. That wasn't a fun night.
Das Video hätt' mir vor zwei Jahren geholfen, als ich eine Woche in einem Hotel am Frankfurter Ostbahnhof war. In der Woche bin ich aber nur einmal Taxi und sonst mit der Tram gefahren.
While U-Bahn and S-Bahn are distinguished by the letters in front of the numbers, trams and busses are not told apart in that way. They both just have a two digit number in most cases. Trams range from 11 to 21 and busses start at 30.
Cologne makes a small adjustment to the number system by giving buses a three digit number, while trams (which all go by the term "Bahn" in common parlance) have a two digit number. Cologne has a so-called "Stadt-Bahn", meaning trams and subway trains are the same. Lots of lines go partly above and partly below ground between start and finish.
Since trams and buses are operated by the local transport organisation/union/federation, they will have their own identification system. However, most German cities use a numerical system for both.
For instance here in Dessau,
- trams use single digits (Line 1 and Line 3);
- buses travelling within Dessau use 10-19, and those going to Roßlau and the northern "Randzone" use 20;
- night buses use the letter N with a number (N1-N5)
- and buses going out of Dessau-Roßlau, like buses to Aken, Lutherstadt Wittenberg, or Köthen, use triple digits
Nah und Fernverkehr Hessen You‘ve forgot the bus lines 24, 25
I lived in Frankfurt am Main the summers of 1993 and 1994. There used to be a very "simple" fare scheme called "Fahr Bunt" until it was changed in 1995 to allow for adding zones past the "blue zone" as the yellow was the city zone, then there was green, red and blue. I would buy a Monatskarte for about DM 93, valid only in the yellow zone, just fine up to and including Frankfurt's Nieder-Eschbach where I worked, or even as far as Fechenheim, no need to buy yet another ticket.
Frankfurt Airport had an interesting situation for day passes, between the airport and the city, you would be entirely in the yellow zone, but for a single ticket you had to buy a ticket for the green and the yellow zones, two in total.
I drive from Willy-Brandt-Platz to Merianplatz everyday to work, yaaaay now I finally learned how to :D
Wow Laura you are beautiful :) Marry me please so that I can easily get citizenship or shorten the period needed to get it :p I will love you I promise
Isnt it funny that ,that guy just asked a girl to marry him on a youtube comment ...
With the U4
You are the best, thanks a million, we are visiting this summer. 👍👍
And if your disabled or pushing a pram or walking with a walking frame/Zimmer, Frankfurt is a good place to be. It’s not perfect, but there are lifts or slopes up to the platform levels, The trains and trams all stop at platform level. Amazingly even the busses lean over at the bus stops (tilt) to make the step into the bus as low as possible.
You haven't seen the tram stops which drop you right in the middle of the street then. :)
Well done. Concise and highly informative
Thank you so much!
Deine Videos gefallen mir alle sehr gut, nicht nur die, die etwas mit der Bahn zu tun haben :-) Hier möchte ich mich ausnahmsweise auch einmal äußern: Die Tageskarten kosten seit etwa 1-2 Jahren in den meisten Fällen sogar weniger als zwei Einzelfahrkarten. Ansonsten sehr schön recherchiert und erklärt, wie immer!
5,35€ für eine Tageskarte. Stand 2021
Woohoo first like :D I was shopping in Frankfurt just today. In case a person doesn't know which line they have to take they can in most cases just ask in english, most people in Frankfurt are actually capable of speaking english :)
I might controversially argue that in frankfurt chances are higher a person speaks english than that person speaking german :P
Well I never declined a person being able to speak german if they can speak english ;) actually chances are pretty high that they can speak german :D
+Benjamin Eßer In some parts of Berlin, I think the same thing. It freaks me out, because in others, you're lucky if you can understand the German they're speaking.
In one video (can´t remember which) you said you aren´t a public transport enthusiast. The amount of videos you made on this topic tells me that this is a lie. (And I love you for that)
Somehow I'm not sure what kind of transport +rewboss enjoys the most. If he isn't a public transport enthusiast, he still uses it a lot for that, and only seems to do very little traveling by car. The problem with any means of transportation is that it costs money, maybe that's the reason?
Plus the fact that it is suicide to enter a big german city by car at rush hour, if you don't really need it. You will be starved to death in your car before you get out of the traffic jam...
So even if you aren't a public transport enthusiast, it is just common sense to switch to trains and busses.
ThamiorSilberdrache But, really, do you know rush hour in other big cities over the world? I think Germany is among the least bad in comparison. Or at least, most German cities are. And that is probably due to the fact that we usually do have rather acceptable public transport systems so many people don't take the car.
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Well, I didn't state it is less suicidal to enter Shanghai or Manhattan by car on rush hour, did I? Maybe "entering the city by car on rush hour is suicide" is just a statemnt that holds for almost every big city in the world.
And yes, we have an acceptable public transport system in most big cities (although the prices sometimes aren't. Stuttgart has the most expensive public transport system in Europe...). Doesn't mean it's always sufficient to transport all the masses it needs to. If you, for example, enter a S-Bahn from Stuttgart Haupbahnhof to the University at around 9:15am you'll realise that those guys pressing pessengers into trians with broom-like stikes from reports of China or Japan aren't just a east-asian thing. Ok, that guys in Stuttgart don't use sticks, but there are workers of the public transport system trying to fit more people into already overcrowded S-Bahns. And still, you'll get into Stuttgart by far more comfortable and by far faster on rush hour if you use a train. I'd be rather pressed in an overcrowded S-Bahn for 10 minutes then to spend two and a half hour for only three kilometers in the daily traffic jam on Stuttgart Pragsattel...
ThamiorSilberdrache I personally like moving through Berlin on my scooter the most. Yes, you could also end up in a jam, but you could just as well just drive by and pass it (illegally, I know, but who cares - it's one vehicle less that's jammed up there). But actually, I would recommend a bike for most ways you have to make inside a city. OK, since Stuttgart is quite hilly, maybe an e-bike so you don't have to exhaust yourself.
I was riding the bus 72 &73 in Niederursel after I got off on Industriehoff train station
Zu den Einzelfahrkarten (ich hole mir inzwischen meist Tagestickets, weil das für mich günstiger ist):
Mit den Fahrtunterbrechungen sehen die Kontrolleure das nicht so, bzw. können es gar nicht feststellen.
Als Beispiel: Ich möchte von Kronberg zur Nordweststadt! Welche Möglichkeiten gibt es für mich?
1. Busverbindung von Kronberg zur Nordweststadt
2. S-Bahn bis Rödelheim, dann Umsteigen in einen Bus zur Nordweststadt
3. S-Bahn bis Frankfurt West. Fußweg bis zur Haltestelle Juliusstraße (Straßenbahn). Ginnheim Endstation. Umsteigen in die U1 zur Nordweststadt.
4. Mit der S4 nach Frankfurt, Hauptwache. Umsteigen in die U1 zur Nordweststadt.
5. Mit dem Bus in Richtung Bad Homburg, bis Oberursel Bahnhof fahren. Umsteigen in die U3 in Richtung Südbahnhof, Umsteigen in Niederursel, Wiesenau oder Zeilweg in die U9 oder U1 zur Nordweststadt.
Ich wette es gibt noch mehr Variationen, abder die aufgeführten habe ich alle ausprobiert. Es ist mehr oder weniger unmöglich festzustellen, ob eine Fahrtunterbrechung durchgeführt worden ist!
Another fine educational video Rewboss!
Just in case if you plan to leave Frankfurt you can get a Hessenticket. You can go to Kassel (NVV) then, Worms (VRN) and Mainz (also in the RMV system - historical reasons, Mainz joined the FVV, thus now part of the RMV). For students in Middle/southern hessen, it can happen that your Student ID is already your ticket to all three systems (most cases)... Unfortunately, the Hessenticket costs about 34 Euros...
1:10 Perhaps not the best sign to put up all over a city in Germany.
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Holy shit, why did they double that H? A single H for "Haltestelle" would really have sufficed...
The double H means that two trams fit there and will be able to open doors at the same time.
Zeemon OK, that makes sense somewhat, but isn't that obvious when looking at the platforms and tracks?
I thought along the lines of "this is a stop for two different means of public transport", like tram and bus...
Very nice video, what about making a similar one for other German cities too? (Berlin, Munich, Hamburg, Cologne, the Ruhr etc)
If you're paying...
Bis auf die Namen hätte das jetzt auch Köln sein können ;-)
+rewboss I think they are all pretty much similar in principle, only the details will vary (like which means of public transport there are and what tickets are available). I think I remember you made a similar video about Berlin, although it may be that this was back in the days when your videos included a more pronounced bit of humor, and so it may not have been as informative. Still, with the knowledge of this video, it is also possible to find your way in Berlin's public transport system, as long as you have the map, which should be self-explanatory. Or you get the "Öffi" app on your smartphone, which does show you all the maps and helps you plan your route from station A to station B (or from any address within a city to another address within the same city).
The Ruhr is a River Not a City
Auf Englisch nennt man das Ruhrgebiet "the Ruhr"
I visited Frankfurt less than a month ago and the public transport there is amazing. One thing that could be fixed is the utter barbarity that is: "Ausstieg auf der Straße, bitte Sie Verkehr beachten!" I'm glad that there is at least one way in which my city, Zagreb, is beating a city of similar size with a dozen skyscrapers and a lot of underground lines.
Maybe it should have also been worth mentioning the "Gruppentageskarte" which, as the name suggests, is valid for one day and for a group of up to five. In my experience, it often saves money when travelling in a group of two or maybee three.
To add, you can also let other people ride for you aka mitfahren, for a fee that you will ask them.
willy brandt platz zum merian platz? Also vom Euro zu mir.
Will you make a video about the differences between tram, streetcar, light rail, U-Bahn, Stadtbahn and Straßenbahn? All describe a form of public transit on rails but the terms seem to be assigned at random
Is very simple :
Light Rail =Tram=Straßenbahn.
S Bahn (Schnellbahn)
Without rail road cross
Is it a synonym for some System
For regio Trains or/and for U Bahn
( rail wide are 1435mm)
They are faster than light Rail and more room between the station.
U Bahn :
Here are give two systems :
The original U Bahn system have 4 City's in Germany not more!
The original U Bahn have:
Berlin
Frankfurt
Munich*
Hamburg
Some another German City's have a underground train system, but this is a underground Light Rail!
The different:
U Bahn=1435mm and the Energie for the elektric Motor came from a System behind the rail, not from a wire over the Rail.
Bus, here give 2 systems :
The noraly with Diesel Bus and with a elektrik wire (alias light Rail)
Are there posters/enamel signs on the platform walls, or by staircases, escalators, lifts etc., that show each station that U- and S-Bahn trains stop at?
U-Bahn, yes. S-Bahn, no. There are, though, maps of the system posted everywhere.
Wieder ein schönes Video. Mache doch mal Urlaub auf Rügen oder im Harz und berichte über die Schmalspurdampfeisenbahnen dort. Die HSB und den rasenden Roland. Oder die Bäderbahn Molli, welche auf der Straße mitten durch eine Stadt dampft.
Nur mal so als Vorschlag.
Daumen hoch und Grüße
Mega
I wish I'd seen this video before I flew in to Frankfurt last March, on my way to Bad Homburg. I assumed S-Bahn was Straßenbahn (tram), and knowing I wanted a train via Frankfurt Hauptbahnhof (central station), I looked elsewhere. I ended up asking a (very helpful) cleaner, who kindly directed me to the platforms I had assumed weren't for me.
One thing not mentioned in the video: you can go from the airport to the Hauptbahnhof by ICE, but if you do, you can't use the standard ticket; it costs more. Just one more thing to add to the confusion!
This is due to the fact ice (inter city express) are part of the Deutsche Bahn railway system meanwhile S, U, tram and Busses are part of the VGF two almost completely seperate systems
Because the Inter-City and the Inter-City-Express (ICE) are solely operated by the Deutsche Bahn (DB), the national railway company. All the other trains/trams/busses are operated by the by the RMV, a joint-venture between the transport authorities of several municipalities in the Rhein-Main area, including Frankfurt's own public transport authority (the VGF), and DB Regio Rhein-Main, a regional subsidiary of Deutsche Bahn, which operates the S-Bahn and regional trains. The rolling-stock of the S-Bahn Rhein-Main and the regional trains have the RMV logo at the side of the driver's cabin, and a a sleeve in the colours of the RMV running along the top of their trains. You can use one ticket for everything (depending on destination) on the RMV network, but not on the IC and ICE, because those are DB only.
What is the name of that train that runs in the air (that does hang on in germany)
Schwebebahn. In Wuppertal for example
@@---zx9zf Yes, that one
You forgot the most important thing, how to buy the right ticket on a "Fahrkartenautomat".
20 years ago, the last time i use the public transport, it was very complicatet.
Well, things are much less complicated now. Ticket machines have multi-lingual touch-screen displays: select your language, and it walks you through the process of selecting your ticket.
I find it still complicated.
If you want to have a bike ticket in Westphalia, you have to choose "Enschede" as destination since bike tickets to Münster are not available. But the price is the same.
Many people complain about that. The train company (Eurobahn) wants to make you pay for a bike month ticket. So you cannot get a bike single ride ticket at the ticket machine inside of the train anymore. Ticket machines at the stations are rare here, they don't exist in every town or village. So one must buy the ticket in the train.
Have they stopped selling those rush hour tickets which are more expensive ?
Is there still no mark on the line map (S-Bahn/UBahn) where the Frankfurt zone ends ?
U-Bahn does not leave Frankfurt, exept for some stops in Offenbach
There never were such things as rush our tickets
I think you confused Frankfurt with a different city
@@---zx9zf It's actually the U2, which drives to Bad Homburg, and U3, which drives to Oberusel, which leave Frankfurt. No other rail line outside of the S-Bahn leave the city, not even to Offenbach.
To the OP (should you be able to read it): The transit map (at least for 2022) shows where the Frankfurt fare zone starts and ends. In addition, there is an announcement at the stations of Nieder-Eschbach and Niederursel that these are the last stations of the U-Bahn. There is none for the S-Bahn, though, primarily because of the more regional service (i.e. it serves more cities than just Frankfurt and its satellite towns).
Can I use Day Pass to travel from Frankfurt airport to Rodermark?
no need to 'entwerten' the tickets?
so frankfurt dont have "Streifenkarte" tickets then? and how does the inspector know the validity and the travel origin?
Probably the tickets have the validity and travel origin printed on the ticket itself?
studiosnch Yes, I imagine the date and time must be printed on the ticket, but with the Entwerter machine they also stamp some codes that indicate the station/stop and the direction of travel so that one can work out whether you're taking a round trip (since that's officially not allowed for single trip tickets), but I guess nobody's got time to care about that anyway. All the inspector sees is only the date & time. :)
I reckon the only downside of the Frankfurt system is that you cannot buy blank tickets in advance and use it later, and without Entwerter machines, there can't be sth like Streifenkarte (which is quite convenient).
The ticket has also printed the starting station on it, so if you try to do a roundtrip and after 2 hours you get controlled close to your starting station, I would like to hear that excuse,lol
So you did not cover a topic. Are there special fares for transiting special zones in Frankfurt ?... like how much cost a ticket from Frankfurt for Offenbach .... is the same way a round ? Or the prices are separate for zones ?
As he said, there is one tarif zone covering the entire city and sorounding areas. Offenbach aswell
Do tickets in Frankfurt aM have the purchase time printed already, therefore negating the need for stamping it on a validation machine? AFAIK Hannover also has an almost similar system.
Yes! Tickets of the RMV have the time and date of purchase printed. They have printed the place where they was bought too. And they have printed the fare zones where the ticket is valid.
The system in Hanover is slightly different.
The tickets you get on buses and at üstra ticket machines are valid immediately, while those you get at kiosks and normal ticket machines need to be stamped for validation.
If the ticket you get is more like a strip of paper, you need to stamp it.
The other ones are slightly bigger.
Source: I live nearby.
Ach yes now I remember. We usually bought our tickets from the üstra machines, hence no need for the stamping. Danke! Ich habe es fast alles vergessen, hab ich aber nur in Dezember letztes Jahr die Stadt besucht.
I'm pretty sure back when I used to visit my mother in the Berufsgenossenschaftliche Unfallklinik, they didn't have that vaguely unpleasant color. On the other hand, that was something like twenty years ago ...
Yes, RMV started coming into existence back in those days. The blue-ish green is the color of RMV (Rhein-Main-Verkehrsverbund), now all over the southern half of Hesse. They've had a different color before.
Achtung Andrew: Für die Wochenkarte in Frankfurt ist der Besitz eines dieser komischen Chipkarten vom E-Ticket voraussetzung ... ohne die verkauft der Automat keine. Solltest du vielleicht noch irgendwo einbauen. Meineserachtens kannst du nämlich am Flughafen keine Wochenkarte als ankommender bekommen - oder gibt es da irgendwo einen RMV/DB-Stand in Terminal 1 ... im Fernbahnhof das Reisezentrum ist nämlich glaube ich ohne RMV-Verkauf
Why would you ever travel on any other route in Frankfurt, than between the airport and the train station?
Eventuell könntest Du Dich in Zukunft für solche Videos sponsern lassen? S-Bahn Berlin und Busse & Bahnen NRW haben in letzter Zeit RUclips-Videos gesponsert.
Das ist wirklich eine gute Idee.
I live in Frankfurt. Awesome City. Liebe Grüße :)
Super helpful. Thanks.
how much is the ticket??
thank you so much, the video is very helpful
Der ÖPNV der Stadt Hamburg ist ganz iteressant, da neben U- und S-Bahn und Bussen (Straßenbahnen hat Hamburg nicht (mehr), noch Schiffs- respektive Fährverkehr gibt.
Im Ausland fand ich Kopenhagen und Göteborg ganz interessant. Göteborg hat kontaktlose RFID-Fahrkarten und auch Fährverkehr.
Gilt ja die RFID-Ticketkarte auch in Stockholm (SL-biljett).
Ich denke nicht, das die RFID-Fahrkarten von Goeteborg in Stockholm gültig sind.
Ach. Ich meine, das SL-Fahrkarten RFID-Karte auch sind. Entschuldigung.
Das weiß ich nicht! Ich war noch nicht in Stockholm!
damn it!! i want to live in europe!
rodrigo guzman I do live in Frankfurt☺
Luckimation me too!
Mood
Hey man, I heard it's extremely hard to find a rental in Germany now because of the refugees. Do you know if this is true?
Yes and no. In some cities like Munich and central Berlin it's hard to find a place to life, but not because of the refugees. In some other cities - especially in former east Germany - there are even to much empty flats/houses.
Berlin and Munich rental prices are some of the highest in Germany, to add. 500€ can only get you a really small flat with nothing on it, unless you find one in the suburbs or be really lucky.
Has nothing to do with refugees, Frankfurt is a booming city. The city adds over 12000 new citizens every year and of course you can not build apt buildings this fast to keep up with demand. Hence, higher rent prices
Thanks for this.
Danke!
did't mention price for all type of tickets
you not need a seat reservation in germany I heard
Old Frankfurt metro tickets for sale (1980)
Thx , this is very useful
Tres belle Frankfurt
That's also in berlin
Very similar to Berlin :)
If i dont have a ticket in the Netherlands i get an ticket of 150...
da hat man sich einiges bei London Underground abgeschaut... ;-)
Zum Beispiel? :-)
you live in German most RUclipsrs I find live in Japan America but I didn't know I would find a RUclipsr that lives in German oh I forgot to tell you Spanish counts too but I'm mostly skip their videos I don't want to learn Spanish so I thought the video so much
Don't tell pospls to go hauptwache. It's one of the worst and most dangerous stations
Only at night tho. And VGF is imporving security there.
No,the Hauptbahnhof is very dangerous,many. Drugspeople,People without Home.
I Ned 1 thing in my life..visit the Frankfurt..this is end
I want to live there.
The S Bahn drive all 15 Minutes
Im Herzen von Europa
Cash should be the norm everwhere in this world. You want the digital currency? Have you started thinking already. In general people stopped being reasonable some time ago, but I don''t know exactly when that happened. I was just surprised and perplexed when I noticed it.
Now crayziness and stupidity (not thinking whatsoever) is the norm. That's the essential reason why cashlessness is favoured these days. And people even want to be enslaved. After the last three years I lost the last vestige of hope for this godless and declining western society that's being destroyed right now (while they are trying to find out what "gender" they are).
I remember when I lived in this shit city, that the bus drive who worked for a sub sub sub sub sub company for 4,50 Euro an hour, gave always fullgas. He hammered the gas pedal of the Daimler bus to the floor when the traffic light switched to Green. He was a muslim and frustrated that he must work for such a low wage ! It was funny to drive with the bus, when he was sitting behind the wheel : D i enjoyed it when I heard the screaming boiling engine in the back and the other passengers looked worried, when we have accelerated from 0 to 80km/h in 5 seconds :D!
Thank you very much for your high intelligent reply ! Very appreciated ! Have a nice evening in frankfurt :)!
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