[slow_typist]

It is fine as long as you have or can make enough trains, busses and people who staff them. Those are finite resources. Since the external costs of car traffic are so high, even free public transport would probably make sense from the societal perspective.

[yenda]

I think it's actually brilliant. People aren't going to leisure trip at commuting hours, so it allows to keep a schedule outside of busy hours when you are normally way under capacity.

[Gravityloss]

This particular country is probably way oversufficient in all these. Oil they need to import.

[someweirdperson]

Not only oil, also short on people to drive all those trains and busses (people who accept low wages, of course).

[Gravityloss]

I meant that driving trains doesn't require oil, while people driving cars does. Hence your country is bleeding capital every time somebody drives.

The whole train infrastructure is very self sufficient in Germany and they indeed export trains and tracks and all associated technology all over the place too, hence the term "oversufficient".

[yenda]

Wages are quite good especially for the low skills/paid training

[slow_typist]

Bus drivers are not paid very well in Germany. Especially those who work for relatively small private companies.