Germany is worse than that. For the German statistic 5 minutes and 59 seconds delayed counts as punctual, and if the train doesn't arrive at all it is not counted. So delyed trains often skip the last station and just turn around so they can start the next trip punctual, but that doesn't count as unpunctuality.

Also the statistic is only for single trains. So if you miss your connection because over one third of the trains is delayed by more than 6 minutes and the next train runs every hour, then that counts as being 8 minutes delayed and punctual even if the customer arrived 1 hour after their planned arrival.

[–] Blaze@discuss.online 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

And I guess congratulations to Luxembourg for covering the 105 km between Schmett and Schengen

[–] gaael@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Idk how it is elsewhere, but in France long distance trains are on time most of the time (as shown on the graph) but short distance ones suffer lots of problems daily. Guess which ones the working class uses the most btw ?

So using only the metric of long distance trains feels a little biased.

That being said, I'm all for train regardless of the distance, and most of these issues would be mostly fixed with more infrastructure investment.

[–] turbowafflz@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Interesting, that's pretty much the inverse of the US. Here the long distance Amatrak trains are often hours late because of freight companies not usually letting them by when they're supposed to but the short distance trains like the DC Metro are pretty good

[–] muse@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

Fun fact: Mussolini was an early proponent of sustainable and green renewable energies for transportation.

He made the trains run on thyme