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German travel chaos blamed on lack of investment in railways
(www.theguardian.com)
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this post was submitted on 04 Dec 2023
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Well, since misery loves company, i feel a bit better about the Netherlands now. Our railways have sucked for ages. But its good to see its not just ours :)
I'm sorry, what? It may feel like they suck when there is a 10 minute delay on the train you wanted to take, but the Dutch railway system is one of the most reliable in Europe.
We're not talking ten minute delays ๐ if only it was that good!
No. Ever since COVID came around things have gone down hill. And as a Dutch man who travels by train a lot, i can say in al honesty, reliable is not what i would call it.
And as i am typing this im in a train thats filled from top to bottom because the train before this one failed. So we're having twice as many people in the train. And oh, there's a whole bunch of trains that can't move because power failures someone down the line.
10 minutes you say.. ๐๐๐ well at least you made me smile :)
Dude. We had a friend on holiday in northern Germany who wanted to visit us in Maastricht. Even though she was in fucking Germany, it was twice as fast to get to the border, take a bus to Groningen and then cross the Netherlands than to use the DB to Aachen.
Another thing. The Dutch trains that are known to have many transfer passengers stop on the same platform, so you only need to cross the platform. In Germany your train arrives on Gleis 5, your next train on Gleis 16. Oh no, 13. Woops we changed it again haha.
You are right it went downhill, but DB is on another level of skullfuckery.