• CrazyLikeGollum@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    54 minutes ago

    Meanwhile in Japan: Train is 30 seconds late “here’s a letter for your employer explaining why you were only 29 minutes and 30 seconds early for your 8 hour shift that will inevitably have an additional 8 hours of unpaid overtime tacked on to it.”

  • Bloomcole@lemmy.world
    12·
    11 minutes ago

    Some infantile meme about public transport while his regime has been helping genocide in Palestine and Syria for years.
    This lib has got his priorities straight.
    Also you’ve misspelled ‘fakely left-wing’ in your bio.
    And, can you ban me here too fash?

  • gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de
    261·
    17 hours ago

    funny but inaccurate

    i live in vienna. the train comes so often, nobody bothers to check the schedule anymore. just wait 2 mins, enter, go.

    • turmoil@feddit.org
      1·
      36 minutes ago

      Same in Paris.

      “What do you mean I have to wait 4 minutes for the next metro?”

      • ℍ𝕂-𝟞𝟝@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        1·
        13 minutes ago

        Meanwhile in Belgium,

        “I don’t know where or when will I end up after I board the bus back home from work”

    • NewDay@feddit.org
      2·
      4 hours ago

      BMW, VW and Mercedes. The German Bundesbahn was perfect then the CDU, CSU and FDP killed it due to lobbyism. Now, the politicians suck the cocks of the CEOs of the mentioned companies. SPD and Grüne always say that the Deutsche Bahn needs more money, but they had the chance between 98 and 05. Did they change something? No there was not enough money according to them.

      • ℍ𝕂-𝟞𝟝@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        1·
        10 minutes ago

        Not even the biggest thing that beautiful trio ruined. Their lobbying and Mutti Merkel’s politics were the main contributors to the Hungary problem. So if you want to know why common defense policies get vetoed or why is the Ukraine response is a shitshow, the root cause is that VW needed cheap exploitable workers.

  • JargonWagon@lemmy.world
    27·
    21 hours ago

    American here - I recently started taking the train to go to work! Previously I couldn’t due to no trains scheduled for the return home trip after my shift was over, but after getting a new schedule, I got on board the train! So far in the past two months, I’ve already had a few instances of the train being delayed or missing it entirely. One day, the train was delayed by 30 minutes and stated they would be held for an unknown amount of time to put out a fire on the tracks at a station ahead - drove into work that day. Another day, the train was delayed by 5 minutes. Outside of that, I was late to the train by like 5 minutes and it left without me (still adjusting to early morning schedule).

    So far, I like taking the train much more than driving the car.

    • lud@lemm.ee
      92·
      18 hours ago

      Of course the trains leave without you if you are 5 min late.

      It will leave without you if you are 30 seconds late. Hell, it will even leave if you are 5 seconds late unless they see you running and are feeling extra nice.

      • JargonWagon@lemmy.world
        3·
        15 hours ago

        Never said it shouldn’t! Just means it’s running on time. Like I said, I’m still adjusting to the early schedule.

  • Grizzlyboy@lemm.eeEnglish
    5·
    15 hours ago

    Most of my country doesn’t have trains. The only train on time goes to the airport, yes THE airport. Everything else is buss for train. And I purposely didn’t mention the country but everyone from here knows it when they read buss for train.

  • Vahenir@lemmy.world
    19·
    23 hours ago

    You clearly havent heard of swedish trains.

    The railroad here is a bad joke at this point, mainly due to shutting down the organization that was responsible for maintainence and shoving it into another agency that has no clue. As a bonus the new agency doesn’t even do the repair work themselves but hires contractors at the lowest bidder. So stuff breaks constantly, which causes delays.

    At this point just getting the rail network to “normal” standards would cost billions. Let alone expanding it to cope with current traffic levels.

    • enumerator4829@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      3·
      16 hours ago

      To be fair, most higher density areas in Sweden have fairly good infrastructure for public transit. The national railways are a disgrace, but that mostly affects long distance travel. Mostly. Short to medium distance commute works fairly well everywhere I’ve tried it.

    • LeninOnAPrayer@lemm.eeEnglish
      2·
      20 hours ago

      From my small experience as an a American. Netherlands had some really reliable transit. Never had a problem in France though definitely not as nice as Netherlands. Italy was definitely hit and miss depending on the city but loved the high speed rail from Naples to Rome. Germany was reliable during October Fest so I assume at least Munich is reliable if it was good at that time. Though I wouldn’t say I used much in Germany.

      Other countries I’ve been to but I’ll just list cities for these because I didn’t go much anyone else for them: Prague, Budapest, Vienna

      I can’t say there was a single country/city here that had transit that was worse than the best transit in the US. Was it all perfect? No. But compared to fucking Amtrak that literally has to stop for hours at a time while we wait for other freight trains to pass. Literally multiple times during a single train ride.

      Some countries may not be the first meme. But what major city in Europe has worse local transit than say Chicago or New York? Or worse heavy rail than Amtrak? Just honestly asking.

      I don’t think anything could be worse than Amtrak.

  • randombullet@programming.dev
    162·
    1 day ago

    Deutsch Bahn would like a word.

    I often take my car because it’s so damn unreliable.

    Not once, not twice, but three times I’ve sat on a train for 2+ hours without moving within the past 2 years.