Good news. If the trains would be reliable instead.
Meanwhile in Canada, trains are not only etwas spät, they are extra spät.
Lack of food, water and toilets: Via Rail passengers fume after being stranded 10 hours
As a Canadian, I’m envious. We have 11 daily flights between our two biggest cities, taking 1,5 hour. Or we have 6 daily trains that takes 5 to 6 hours. And freight has priority.
I know Germans like to whine about their trains being late, and AFAIK it’s deteriorating, so they are right to expect better. However, they still have the option and that must help in reducing the number of internal flights.
It sure is complaining on a high level. But not complaining would mean to accept it.
It’s also symptomatic for all the other deteriorating infrastructure and services (streets, bridges, power lines, non existing high speed internet, schools / equipment, public agencies, and so on and so on). All due to cost cutting, while at the same time taxes and prices increased. Those 16 years of Merkel (conservatives) ruined so much and left us completely unprepared for modern problems. And now the same geniuses blame the greens for not fixing it all in three and a half years.
Conservatives are horrible. The Netherlands has had 14 years of Rutte. All public services have gone to shit in that time and it all costs a fortune. Now we have the far right to finish the public services once and for all.
What clown decided that freight has priority? They clog up the rail for hours sometimes.
Unfortunately 97% of the tracks used by federal trains (VIA Rail) in Canada are owned by private freight companies, and thus passengers will wait for the cash cow to pass them.
In fact, 97% of the tracks Via runs on are owned by CN, which Via has to pay to use. Consequently, Canada is one of the only nations in the world where passenger trains yield to freight trains rather than the other way around, leading to frequent and significant delays— Via’s on-time performance was just 57% in 2022.
Just swap the managers of the airlines with he Bahn, and soon there will be cheap connections all across Europe 4 times a day for 20 euros with competing train lines.
The problem is not the price or lack of service, but the trains being on time, so you do actually make connections. The only way to fix that is to improve infrastructure and that takes time.
It doens’t take that much time. It takes money, and that money is currently being used to pay the weapon industry so they send guns to kill palestinians.
That‘s true. Last government (Ampel coalition) gave some money. Visible in some bigger railroad construction sites.
That’s not how it work at all omg.
Trains needs tracks, which needs to be publically owned because it doesn’t make sense to have different competing networks per companies.
That is why we nationalized them in the first place.
Also trains pay taxes on the electricity they consume. Planes kerosen is untaxed.
I’ve read that as “domestic fights” and thought “good for them”.
How is it even still allowed ffs. Germans really don’t care about anything but themselves. Fucking planet destroyers.