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Comment by fxwin

5 days ago

fyi regional trains (which the deutschlandticket is valid for) are very punctual, it is the long distance/ICE trains that are always late/broken, and you cannot ride those with thw deutschlandticket anyways.

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bajinga  5 days ago

no they are not. source: i am german and i use regional trains occasionally

  • fxwin  5 days ago

    thats great, but they are on time 85% of the time vs long distance trains' 62%

    https://www.deutschebahn.com/de/konzern/konzernprofil/zahlen...

    see my other comment too

    • yorwba  4 days ago

      If you take a train to work five days a week and it's "on time" (not delayed by 6 minutes or more) 85% of the time, you'll be late on at least one day most weeks. Hardly very punctual.

      Personally, I think they should just abandon timetables, run trains as fast as they can, and if you need to be somewhere by a certain time, you give the planner a target reliability and it uses a probabilistic model of the entire system to tell you when to leave so you can arrive on time (0 minutes delay, or earlier) with that given probability.

  • panick21_  5 days ago

    Most local and S-Bahn trains in Germany are pretty decent, data is pretty clear on this. Its not Swiss level but still pretty good. Nothing compare to ICE.

mdavid626  5 days ago

Are you crazy? I use local trains daily and they are everything, but punctual. Also, S-Bahn? Worst service ever.