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The in is fun when one lives on the edge of the city and is mainly dependent on the . Especially on the weekends when they choose to do construction work on the and the S-Bahn line count reduces from 7 down to 1. Thus as an alternative is to use the regional trains, especially when traveling between the main train station and .

If all goes to plan, the typical weekday trip of 40 min, can be achieved in 70 min during the night on the weekends. This is due to the less frequent occurrence of connection options and that the final two kilometers need to be walked.


Let’s add more distance between the main train station and home: tonight I started about 4km away from the train station. I just missed the , which would have taken about 10min for the distance. By missing it, I also missed the connection train, thereby opening the option of walking the distance within 50 min.

At the same time the option of directly came up, which is about 20km and typically takes less than 3.5h.

So the options exist of walking directly home in 3.5h or taking public transit and hoping everything runs as scheduled in 2h.

I chose the latter option, because I didn’t have any water on me making a bit too risky for my taste as a night walk, although the train schedule was delayed by 20min.

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