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A collection of some classic Lemmy memes for your enjoyment
Me, an American: “You guys have public transportation?”
DB trains made me appreciate the reliability and punctuality of air planes ...
The expected delayed effect of austerity politics that were so successfully exported throughout the European Union with great efficiency and cruelty.
but it worked on the spreadsheet where the lack of maintenance in the lines doesn't cause issues, no personnel is ever sick, and people deboard and board the train in a microsecond
Iirc for the DB a train is considered on time when it's not later than 7 min on arrival. Which is a joke if you miss your following connection.
A train that doesn't arrive at all is also not considered late.
they abuse this mechanic to catch up on late trains, by stopping their trains a couple stops before the end stop and turning them around to drive the other direction, now not late anymore.
I have this same argument with my spouse. If fifteen minutes late is "on time", then change the arrival time and just be on time.
Luckily the next train you have to take is also late, so nothing really changes. A system so broken that it works "perfectly".
3rd biggest country by GDP btw. I guess that' what you get for voting conservatives for 20+ years.
I am terrorised by the Deutsche Bahn so much, when I first visited GB I thought their rail service is amazing.
They figured out a loophole to improve the statistics: a train can't be late if it never arrives.
He means the forms you have to fill out to get your compensation rejected.
Sitting in a train right now. It started half an hour late and on top of that we have to drive a detour because of an accident on the tracks. Ah well.
In Slovenia, our trains are 4 hours late and we're grateful for it!
It’s a friendly rivalry among many European countries to boast about how shitty their railway companies are.
Americans are not invited to this conversation.
USAians have functioning railways? Before Turamp became president, I wanted to visit and looked up whether there were any trains to the places I wanted to go - it was abysmal. If there was a train, it was once a week or something, slow af and stopped very far from wherever I would've wanted to visit.
Their railway system was a joke back then and probably is even worse by now. Last I read about any improvements to it was some highspeed train planned to be built between San Francisco and Los Angeles (or something) and it being delayed by NIMBYs and unwilling governors paid off by the car lobbies. I fully expect it to be (or have been) cancelled.
I think they were making the same point
Good point
But but America!
The fuck are you on about?
India: rookie numbers.
Anyway, are those long distance/intercity trains or local/metro/intracity trains?
More often long distance. If your train starts to run late, you lose priority to other trains in time and it spirals. 20->30->60->… 5 hours and transferring to other trains. Its cooked
Long distance is worse then regional lines iirc.
Regional is mostly okay, but every now and then there is one not arriving at all
I’d rank it long distance, regional, then s-Bahn in terms of least to most reliable. But when s-Bahn shits itself, it takes the whole system down (in Munich at least).
Probably everything. For local trains, even Berlin is at above 90% reliability.
I understand the whole “it has to get worse before it gets better” angle when some railway sections have to be closed for a complete overhaul, but I feel like there’s an infrastructure equivalent to refeeding syndrome.
When your body has to make do with little-to-no food, it restructures its metabolism to deal with that. When you suddenly increase your food intake again, it can’t deal with that and you die. Instead, food intake must be slowly ramped up.
When an infrastructure provider has little money for repairs, they tend to take their most urgent “cannot be postponed” repairs, rank them, and do the absolutely most urgent “cannot be postponed” ones first. When they suddenly receive more money, there is a tendency to abandon this ranking system because all of these repairs are urgent “cannot be postponed” repairs and they no longer need to be ranked… which leads to collapse because of course the primary, the backup and the other backup route are being repaired at the same time, all three are in need of urgent “cannot be postponed” repairs!
I think the management structures of infrastructure providers should take this into account when a budget increase comes their way.
Their strategy so far is to close and overhaul lines completely. I think it is somewhat fair to expect that's cheaper and faster than overhauling one side at a time. They prioritize by traffic and urgency of overhauls. It is a solid strategy - but it comes with major disruptions of long distance travel