I’d add that riding a bike is also quite stressful at times.
I’d add that riding a bike is also quite stressful at times.
And yet I routinely see morons here and on r/de + r/Munich advocate to build even more housing for people in Munich... I mean, obviously, more housing is good, but as there is no way to meaningfully expand the capacity of public transport it's frankly useless.
The problem is, Munich got lots of new real estate around the city, but especially the public transport system wasn't expanded anywhere near close enough to what's needed. There hasn't been an actual new rail laid for the S-Bahn or the regional trains in decades (in fact, if you go to Mühldorf near Munich, the railway dispatch tech dates back to the era of the Kaiser, so even before Hitler and the Weimar Republic), the U-Bahn hasn't seen meaningful expansion in the core grid as well (only the leaves were expanded, in the late 90s to Messestadt, in the late 00s to Moosach).
And now, the road and public transport networks are at capacity. Munich physically cannot support more people moving here.
Source: my daily driver for the last 7 years has been a Nihola and now a HNF Nicola (hey, hamburg!) and drivers rarely come close.