• iii@mander.xyz
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    12 hours ago

    Tokyo I’ve heard. For sure not Europe. Halve of the scheduled trains didn’t run today in Belgium.

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        I heard they are so good that they point it out in announcements when a delay was caused by foreign trains (Looking at you Deutsche Bahn)

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          Haha, DB also does this with foreign delays. I’ve been in a German train starting in Amsterdam that left 5 mins late - they mentioned it at every stop until Munich.

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        A swiss train operator excused the 30 sec delay

        The german trains measure delays in 5 minutes intervals, everything under 5 minutes in punctual.

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        It’s a problem of reliability. If you need to be at work at 08:00 and your train is regularly late or getting cancelled, you can’t take the train to work.

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          Not to mention even a small delay could mess up the timing of taking the next bus/train. For not too busy routes it could mean waiting in the cold for half an hour… If that next bus has a good delay you could be there for almost an hour. (Totally not speaking from personal experience)

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            When I lived in New York there was a place I’d go sometimes that required 2 trains and a bus. On the weekdays it took about 40 minutes, but on weekends with the cumulative effect of less frequent service it was typically 2 hours, or longer depending on how quickly the first train came.

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      8 hours ago

      Halve of the scheduled trains didn’t run today in Belgium.

      Only half were cancelled? Man, that sounds nice.