The Germans used to be much more organized about such things.
The Germans also used to use box cars as public transportation for their undesirable residents. I guess they don’t do that anymore.
Freeper pepsionice has a blog titled "Schnitzel Republic". wherein he describes life in Germany from an American's point of view.
He destroyed some stereotype of mine, mostly about German efficiency, i.e. trains running late, four cars out of six have non-working toilets, A/C on the Fritz (pun not intended) more times than not (95 deg F in cars in summer), Berlin airport construction running YEARS and money over budget, immigration mishandling, etc., etc.
Then he gets into the crack-brained (my term) Climate Change tactics they have embraced to save the world. Quite a letdown for this first-generation Kraut.