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That's because DB is really bad. Everyone in Europe knows how bad DB is. It has nothing to do with high speed trains.
by theyinwhy 7y ago
That's because DB is really bad. Everyone in Europe knows how bad DB is. It has nothing to do with high speed trains.
- ben_w 7y agoI didn’t know that. But then again, I only moved to Berlin late last year and I came from the UK, which is much much worse.
- theyinwhy 7y agoTrue
- TotempaaltJ 7y agoI still cannot believe how bad British trains are. They seem to ignore that functioning train systems exist, and just do it their own (broken) way.
- inferiorhuman 7y agoYeah I'm trying to get Great Western Rail to honor a delay compensation claim. What an awful company.
- endoftime5 7y agoI always hear my German colleagues complain about DB but having taken UK trains for a few years I can’t fault DB.
- anoncake 7y agoComplaining is just something Germans do though. We have a saying: "Not complaining is enough praise."
- mlang23 7y agoOh yeah, DB is indeed extremely bad. Not really related to high speed trains, but I was relying on assistance to switch trains in germany three times (I am blind), and in all cases, nobody showed up despite me registering a day in advance. In Austria, where I come from, I have been forgotten about exactly once in my whole life. Does tell you something about how well organized the germans apparently are.
- flatfilefan 7y agoGerman native population is decreasing e.g. here https://www.destatis.de/GPStatistik/servlets/MCRFileNodeServlet/DEMonografie_derivate_00000605/5124204099004.pdf https://www.destatis.de/GPStatistik/servlets/MCRFileNodeServ... So what you deal with is really the business culture or the integration culture in general, not necessarily German culture per se.
- mlang23 7y agoSorry, I shouldnt have implied this has anything to do with the culture in the country. However, it still baffles me that the system in a country which is generally thought of as being very correct would fail so consistently to provide a service they advertise as being functional and well.
- anoncake 7y agoYou can't just say DB is really bad without putting it in relation to their prices. That would let them get away too easily.