Transportation

As stated earlier cars are smaller in Germany then in America, and the streets are narrower. Many people use public transportation to get around, such as the bus or subway, while others take bikes. Public transportation is easier to use, cleaner, and safer then in America. Children learn when they are younger how to take the public bus, because school buses are used only for the special children and in expensive private schools. I have seen 6 year olds riding the bus alone on their way to school with their packpacks and no parents. Instead of getting rides from your parents to and from places, which is commen in the U.S., in Germany you take the bus wherever you need to go or ride your bike. Exchange students that have come from Germany to America told me that on of the hardest thing to get used to was asking their host parents for a ride to their friends or other places.