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I'll take it to all 2 place it goes! (lemmy.world)
submitted 3 months ago by to c/lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world
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[–] 60 points 3 months ago (12 children)

clearly never been in a German train

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  • [–] 33 points 3 months ago (6 children)

    fuck DB man 🫩

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  • [–] 36 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Public services need to be publicly owned.

    Politicians are corrupt, but business people are corruption embodied.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 months ago

    DB is publically owned. Just in a very stupid way. They made it a stock company cause they planed to privatise it, and then didn't cause of the 2008 financial crisis. So it's a stock company with a board and a CEO, that is supposed to make a profit, but all the stock is owned by the state.

    In my eyes, they should reform it into something more sensible that is still publically owned, but the current government is more likely to go through with privatisation than do that.

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  • [–] 14 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    As an American living in Germany ❤️ DB

    I know it used to be better, and compared to neighboring nations its bad, but I've never had access to a better transit system.

    Plus I do feel like DB is not given enough credit for its volume of trains. No other country in Europe is running so many trains so frequently. You have several hourly train routes that would be a bus ride every 3 hours in other European nations

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    The only neighbouring country with certainly better train travelling imo is Switzerland.

    French tgv is fucking expensive and trains are a lot less comfortable.

    Dutch has great trains but it's basically all intercity/regional/local. It's more like a very large S-Bahn Network, Not comparable to ice experience.

    Belgian trains are just shit often and just as much delayed, also no real long distance trains.

    Luxembourg is free but the trains are also very unreliable...

    Is it really that great in Poland, Czechia, Austria? I don't know.

    It could be better, but DB Long Distance travel is really not that bad. It's mainly the infrastructure that's lagging behind

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago

    It depends how you define “better”, but in terms of punctuality Germany consistently ranks near the bottom. Bottom 3 of the EU for high speed or international trains, bottom 6 for local trains.

    So yes all neighbouring countries may have their own issues with trains, but regarding punctuality they’re consistently better.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago

    Austria is doing lretty well, spain is killing it with HSR, Italy also has great high speed services, but on a smaller network.

    Overall, the big problem is reliability, the DB is basically never punctual, and almost all the others are better than them at that aspect.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago* (2 children)

    I've been in a German train. Was a while ago, though.

    It seemed like the people running both the machines and system actually knew what they were doing and cared about doing it well.

    As a latin american this was unfathomable to me and it broke my brain.

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