ICE is 30 minutes late again. I'm really pissed about that.
Also, has not enough carriages, so journey will probably be cramped...
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Also, has not enough carriages, so journey will probably be cramped...
Hmm. Maybe ICE deserves to be in Nuremberg right now
It certainly should be here by now.
But I still value the work ethics of the ICE personal very much.
It's not their fault that their employer isn't able to coordinate procedures efficiently...
Indeed, the lack of spending on the rail infrastructure in the last few decades has probably more to do with politics (cough cough car lobby cough cough) than the Deutsche Bahn's personal. I always like how the personal has a humorous and chill way of announcing the delays.
Hey, you try to be effective while taking the worst possible decision every time! Those poor managers! 😭
Nice joke, love it.
For the non German people: ICE here is intercity express. Our cops are somewhat more tolerable than yours.
Also German Rail is always late.
And for the people that don't get the Nuremberg part: that's where the Nazi trials were held.
Only 30 minutes? That's cute.
I am confident that there is still growth potential along the remaining route!
Let me tell you about me once trying to get from Mainz to Nürnberg some time...
fuck ice.
worst train experience of my life.
Let me tell you about the wonders of DSB. You expect a train and lo and behold, it's a "train bus"!
If I have to take the "train" anywhere the next 4 months I need to take one of those infamous "train busses"
But hey, at least the trains are working and on time when there's not construction work? Think again! That is the time for signaling errors, brakes that fall off the trains, or leaves on the track! And guess what that means? More train busses!!
There was a bus substitute on one of my routes some time ago.
Turned out it was faster than the train because it took the Autobahn.
First time in my life arriving 20 mins early at that destination...
Was it a proper travel bus with seatbelts and everything? I've once been in a bus meant for inside cities that went on the Autobahn, that was pretty scary
Yes, seatbelts and comfortable seats.
Definitely an improvement to the Regionalexpress!
at least the toilets were working on dsb. last time i was on an ice every toilet except one was out of order. on a full night train from münchen to hamburg.
meanwhile, die Züge in Polen:
Dear DB. That's not a challenge, don't you dare to accept it!
So we are still not worst?
I guess that's... uplifting?
Oh my god +161m what the fuck
Or the Swiss.
If I don't survive, tell my wife "Hello".
Indeed! For example, the Tōkaidō high speed line between Tokyo and Osaka runs almost 400 trains every day with an average delay of about 12 seconds 🤯
Bear in mind that this is just the high speed service (Shinkansen). There is also a parallel line for local trains.
As a foreigner, ICE was so great a decade ago when I went to Germany regularly. What happened to destroy this beacon of fine travel?
The long term effects of privatization and decades of car centric politics.
That sucks. I saw the DB as a model of envy.
The DB was great (albeit a little bureaucratic), while it still was the Bundesbahn, a public institution, run by public servants like every other government office. But when they became the DB AG, a shares based for profit company (still held by 100% by the government), they became a shitshow, because now their mission of providing reliable public transportation changed to making maximum profit and paying their C-suite (typically former politicians or their buddies) ever increasing bonuses for doing fuck all or even less than that.
That's the way many German public institutions went thanks to rampant privatisation caused by all mainstream parties adopting the neoliberal agenda. They are now a shadow of their former self, delivering sub par service for outrageous prices while making a few individuals very rich.
Sad, but unsurprising, that right-wing grift is universal.
Sadly a thing of the past...
The CDU never invested in the necessary maintenance, so from 2022 to 2025, SPD, Grüne and FDP had to push through funding all the necessary repairs and modernizations at once, crippling the whole network for the next 10-20 years. Part of it is beeing modernized while the rest now has a higher demand than what its capable of. Since the network is already very tightly packed, one small incident can cause a domino effect of trains beeing late throughout Germany.
Return voyage working out much better, so l am happy again! :-)
Casually flexing on americans about chilling and drinking coffee while running at 300kph on green electricity as well as being comfortable
The green electricity part is debatable. From my balcony I have a very nice view of the giant smoke stack from the coal power plant and on the other direction the giant smoke stack from the sewage treatment plant where they burn solid wastes, I hope to recover some energy, although I am not sure about that.
Yeah, German rail makes the math look good. On paper, the fast passenger trains run on renewable energy. But then there's cargo trains on the same tracks, which do not.
It's PR no doubt, but they've been promoting that for some time now without reports that indicate otherwise, which make me believe it's true. And yes it's only for long-distance trains
Bro be happy it was only 30 mins. I have travelled with db to munich once. It got delayed 2 hours to munich and then 2 hours back as well. Always take flixbus if going to munich from west side
In Italy, our train system is notorious for being always late... They actually celebrate when they are on time, no joke
Celebrating sounds very Italian... We Germans just share some sarcastic comments with our fellow travellers. :-)
Internal Combustion Engine? Maybe you should try the train.
The other day I was supposed to take an ICE, which was canceled, and all the next ones as well for that day. So they had replacement buses. 4 per train... which means that when i arrived at 11.30 for my "train-bus" replacement, the 4 buses that left were from the 9.30 slot. By the time the buses for the 10.30 slot arrived, there were people from the 12.30 train there. You can imagine I gave up and did not go.
Not an option for me, mandatory appointment.
But something similar happened for as with your buses, but fortunately in a good way:
The preceding ICE was even more delayed, so I was able to catch that one instead. :-)
At least it arrives. Not like in Siegburg/Bonn where they just pass through if they are late.
Wow, that must be the most frustrating feeling ever.
"Your halt has been canceled today..."
I went there for my train, and there was a large amount of people waiting for the late previous ICE. Suddenly, the display showing the late train switched to the train I was waiting for, and a moment later, an ICE rushed through on the center track.
I've rarely seen a more pissed off group of people.
Come on, if you were in Minneapolis, you'd be happy about that.
Ok, ok, I'll let myself out.
The virgin DB ICE vs the gigachad ÖBB Railjet.
Read up on your passenger rights! With more than 20mins (projected) delay, your "Zugbindung" ends and you can take any other ICE to your destination. If your delay is more than an hour, you get a 25% refund, if it's over 2 hours the refund is 50%. If you miss any following trains, need to take a taxi or need to stay in a hotel because of the delay, DB will refund you the cost of that as well. You're also entitled to a free drink in the train at some point, I don't know the specifics of that off the top of my head though
This is solid advice, although in my case it has been a ticket without Zugbindung, as it has been for a work trip.
I got reimbursed 25% one time last year, but had several trips where the delay annoyingly just stayed a few minutes below the magic 1hr mark. :-)
German qfality The downfall of germany should be studied. Ice are cool, sad it's shit like anything in that country anymore