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Their way of calculating punctuality is pretty misleading. It takes into account the predicted arrival at the final destination, without taking into account whe
by elric 5y ago
Their way of calculating punctuality is pretty misleading. It takes into account the predicted arrival at the final destination, without taking into account where passengers actually go. Delays along the route are hidden that way, even though most passengers don't go from origin to terminus, i.e. hardly anyone travels from Liège to Ostend, but the start & end of that 2hour+ journey are what's used to compute delays.
If they were to count what percentage of passengers arrived on time, things would look radically different.
Adding to that: a 5 minute delay on a 2hr journey is fine, but a 5 minute delay on a 12 minute journey is awful.
As for cheap .. I wouldn't exactly call trains cheap in Belgium. Especially if you factor in how uncomfortable they are, how most stations have zero accessibility options, how frequently things go terribly wrong, and how nonexistently awful their customer support is.
- stdbrouw 5y agoThis is the kind of talk I often hear from people who never take public transport. The question then arises: do they not take public transport because it really is that awful, or do they actually have no idea whether it's truly awful because they don't take it? Or a little of both? :-) One thing you ought to know, though, if you often travel by train, is that trains in Belgium almost never make up for lost time, that's just wishful thinking on the part of the conductor and instead delays just seem to cause more delays, so arrival time at the final destination (together with delays to/from Brussels, which is where most people go) is not a perfect metric but not all that bad. Anyway, just joking around, public transport in Belgium could be better, that's for sure.