Some jerk blocking the door because he wants to enjoy his cigarette. Addingen another 4 min to the delay (imagine this every second station)
Its not always the DB’s fault. Sometimes its just acts of stupid.
by Rude-Brief-3502
Some jerk blocking the door because he wants to enjoy his cigarette. Addingen another 4 min to the delay (imagine this every second station)
Its not always the DB’s fault. Sometimes its just acts of stupid.
by Rude-Brief-3502
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A few months ago I witnessed (I was platform-side) a guy holding the doors open for a whole 4 minutes and delaying an S-Bahn train like that. He was keeping them open until a person he knew could catch the train.
That delayed at the very least 3 other S-Bahns behind it.
Talking about it as “DB’s fault” or “not DB’s fault” is a pointless framing though. We can and should be more specific. “Ugh, DB sucks” gets us nowhere, but we can also ask “why is DB letting a misbehaving guest delay a train like this”?
I don’t shy away from criticising the Dutch Railways for stuff I think they do wrong, but there’s one thing they do amazingly well: active crowd management. I think DB should go for a semester in the Netherlands and study how NS handles events like this (I can already hear the loud whistles).
If we want things to improve, we need to move beyond venting or justifying, and think about solutions.
Probably the driver…