Comment by i_am_a_peasant
1 day ago
Ugh. don’t remind me. my fiancée and I live in different cities in Germany. the train ride is 5 hours. but it has been 15h in the past just because DB is DB. and the only thing we got for it was like a 10 eur discount voucher. 10 hours of my life partner’s time is worth a lot more than 10 eur. i have cussed them and their mothers countless times, DB is a garbage transportation company owned and ran by garbage people.
Sounds like Amtrak in the US, except here you get no compensation at all. And I've always been told how great the European railroads are.
in switzerland it’s amazing. france is way more efficient too because the low and high speed rails are largely physically separated. in germany everything shares everything and they rely on proper scheduling to make it work. which is never proper
In some places, European trains are decent. I don't have much experience with US trains other than them having very high steps to get onto.
Europe is a big place