Before starting my record attempt between Kemijärvi, Finland and Lagos, Portugal, people told me over and over it would break down in Germany. So much so that I even tried to re-but (pre-but?) some of the likely critique.
Now, having made the trip, and none of the total
For the past 7 years using DB. I can probably count on one hand if I was delayed more then 2 hours.
However being delayed between 30 mins to 1 hour is extremely common. Often half my trips.
For every important trips, we do go the night before and then stay local.
Worst I’ve been delayed was 5 hours, that’s because a signal between Frankfurt and Köln failed
On the other hand, the amount of times I was delayed by car because of traffic is much higher… but nobody complains about that
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Yep, exactly
Say what now?
Compared to the shit DB nobody complains about streets.
Dunno about that. The eternal roadworks on the motorways always elicit a tirade or two everytime I ride along. Lindau-München is a three-Kruzifix drive, depending on the Bavarianness of the driver.
I regularly hear people complain, that they’ll never use a train again and will now go by car, because of delays (last time I had that conversation was yesterday). I never heard anyone say they will switch to public transport because of roadworks or traffic. People may complain about it, but never see it as an argument against using the car
On how many of those trips did you have to switch trains?
I used to take only regional trains due to the D ticket.
For long distance it’s usually 2 ICE trains max.
Now it’s mostly just 1 train with regionals on each side