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‘It’s the same daily misery’: Germany’s terrible trains are no joke for a nation built on efficiency (www.theguardian.com)

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[-] Esqplorer@lemmy.zip 147 points 1 year ago

As an American who used DB for the first time, their shitty transit blows the best travel experiences here out of the water. I'd rather use German trains than fly first class in the US. Not even close TBH.

[-] DickFiasco@lemm.ee 42 points 1 year ago

I kept reading the article trying to find the reason why DB is so crappy now, only to realize that a 10 minute delay is catastrophic by German standards. I'd love to just have any kind of public transit near me.

[-] barsoap@lemm.ee 35 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It is if it makes you miss a connecting train.

Also, those delays aren't the biggest problem, there's areas of the network which are completely messed up with hour-long delays and trains being skipped. That's a thing that's tolerable to commuters if it happens once a year, but not three days a week.

Not enough tracks, not enough cars, not enough reserve capacity, not enough fallbacks, and not even close to enough political will to fix the situation. Oh, yes, politicians agreed to introduce a swiss-style synchronised timetable by 2030, and that's definitely doable... but it has been postponed to 2070, or, in other words, never.

And then you hear bullshit like "we can't burden the coming generations with debt to build infrastructure" -- motherfucker how about not burdening future generations by having them drive horse buggies over gravel roads?