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As a DB user: “ha!”
American here - I recently started taking the train to go to work! Previously I couldn’t due to no trains scheduled for the return home trip after my shift was over, but after getting a new schedule, I got on board the train! So far in the past two months, I’ve already had a few instances of the train being delayed or missing it entirely. One day, the train was delayed by 30 minutes and stated they would be held for an unknown amount of time to put out a fire on the tracks at a station ahead - drove into work that day. Another day, the train was delayed by 5 minutes. Outside of that, I was late to the train by like 5 minutes and it left without me (still adjusting to early morning schedule).
So far, I like taking the train much more than driving the car.
I owned a car in Toronto. I still took the train DT. Driving DT literally was longer then the train.
Meanwhile in Japan: Train is 30 seconds late “here’s a letter for your employer explaining why you were only 29 minutes and 30 seconds early for your 8 hour shift that will inevitably have an additional 8 hours of unpaid overtime tacked on to it.”
American public transit varies widely, ranging from better than driving to comically horrible.
Trains specifically are bad on shared lielnes because passenger trains are lowest-priority rail traffic, so you can get delayed for days at a time.
Where is this magical European place with trains that are only .5sec delayed? Our public transit authority considers train “on time” if they’re no more than 20min late…and still, less than 80% of trains are “on time”…
You clearly havent heard of swedish trains.
The railroad here is a bad joke at this point, mainly due to shutting down the organization that was responsible for maintainence and shoving it into another agency that has no clue. As a bonus the new agency doesn’t even do the repair work themselves but hires contractors at the lowest bidder. So stuff breaks constantly, which causes delays.
At this point just getting the rail network to “normal” standards would cost billions. Let alone expanding it to cope with current traffic levels.
[cries in Swedish]
Scandinavia has more in common with Canada when it comes to public transportation
So that’s what a train looks like
It’s funny, but after traveling around Europe, I’ve learned one important lesson: avoid booking flights with short layovers! If the transfer time is less than 3-4 hours, you’re playing a risky game. Delays happen more often than you’d think, and in some cases, flights get pushed to the next day due to ‘bad weather’ (or other mysterious reasons). Better to have a buffer than to get stuck at the airport overnight!
Germany’s known for having terrible rail. Probably on account of BMW lobbying.
Really? As an American who had never ridden a train before, I was impressed by Germany’s public transit. I remember wishing we had such systems everywhere over here.
Honestly though, I’d prefer high speed mag-lev systems that run like clockwork.
Germany’s known for poor rail, America’s known for no rail.
San Francisco Bay Area resident checking in. I think we have some of the best public transit in the US, which is pretty shit compared to most urban areas in Europe and Asia. Our trains come frequently enough and are generally on-time but the coverage is pretty bad. Public transit in SF can be pretty unpleasant though.
I’m literally riding the Shinkansen in Japan right now as I come across this meme.
Is that the one known for its reliability and stuff? Like, seconds-granularity reliability?
That very same one. It is also very fast and covers vast distances, yet the ride is smooth and comfortable.
Awesome, would love to try it sometime in my life. I live very far away unfortunately.
Same here; I live across the world. Usually, I mean. As a visitor in Japan however, I can confirm that their public transit system is every bit as convenient and efficient as we’ve been lead to believe internationally. Believe the hype.
🥹 Really is one of my bucket list items, to travel to the far east one day. Preferably Japan. Seems very beautiful.
I sincerely wish you good luck and hope you can make the trip someday! Visiting Japan has been a life long dream for my wife and I, and we are having an amazing time here. I only wish we could stay.
Thank you kind stranger. You deserve the indulgence!
american trains look better and nobody will ever pry that fact from my cold dead hands.
You clearly need to look at more train pictures
I am sure there are magnificent american trains but some american trains are probably ugly too
My point is: beauty is not bound by borders and there is so much out thereall the euro trains look like futuristic renders of trains, american trains make me feel happy.
euro trains will simply never compare, also the E bell goes hard, and you will never take that away from me.
You haven’t seen Croatian rail then ;)
Nice the train is only 15 minutes late? That’s awesome - me riding any train in the US
American here: yeah, not far off.
