The situation with DB has gotten so bad that we are even hearing broadcasts about it on US Public Radio. Obviously, we should not throw rocks at European transit systems from America, since ours are generally bad outside of a few key cities, but it was still quite interesting to hear this today randomly.
by blbd
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Yeah, maybe they should sweep in front of their own door first.
Also this claim is just too wide: For example I had a multi hour trip last week and I had basically no delays, same for my trains to work the last couple of weeks, even with construction going on on our line.
Something tells me it was only mentioned to miss direct from an US issue.
DB is a wierd mix of private and state ownership
their ceos have goals to reach for boni, improving the situation with the delays is always one but they get very creative to with the other goals so they dont have to fix this one
The US doesn’t know how trains work. So they have the right to remain silent…
Deutsche Bahn [has ~40% of long trips delayed](https://de.statista.com/infografik/15656/puenktlichkeit-der-deutschen-bahn/) by 6 min or more. American airlines (not the company) had [24% of their trips delayed](https://travelfreak.com/airline-delay-statistics/) (or cancelled) in 2023, with an average delay of 72 minutes.
If we could find statistics of being late than more than 15 minutes instead I bet **DB would be below 20%**.
Well from what I‘ve read Amtrak often has massive delays and they’re system is not nearly as dense or far reaching as the German railways
The premiere episode of the US reality competition series The Amazing Race (it aired last month) made it perfectly clear the DB trains in Germany not only don’t often run on time they are sometimes outright cancelled. Several contestants learned this the hard way. I had to chuckle at their predicament.
Yes, we Germans love to complain about DB.
We do it, because we want it to become better.
But compared to international train systems, the German trains are within the top 5.
Long distance ICE have the most obvious issues.
But we still have a decent to good mid range inter city trains and the more local S-Bahn trains. They are a bit more reliable and “cheap”.
Then every mid to big size city has their local tram and bus system. These are, under normal circumstances really reliable and very frequently used to get from A to B within the city.
Soo, I believe that the US media does not understand the slightest about European Trains.
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