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From Zürich to Munich by direct train is now 221 minutes instead of 245 minutes. It'z faster, but I wouldn't call it way faster. By bus it's 225 minutes, but t
by ptspts 4y ago
From Zürich to Munich by direct train is now 221 minutes instead of 245 minutes. It'z faster, but I wouldn't call it way faster.
By bus it's 225 minutes, but the bus is often up to 30 minutes late.
- 2143 4y ago(I haven't yet had the good fortune of visiting Europe). I can see why you said the train takes 221 minutes. However, "225 minutes" for bus? I know y'all are known for punctuality, but are buses in Switzerland/Germany that precise?! Also, is it customary to tell such durations in minutes, as opposed to something like "4 hour 45 minutes" or "4 and 3-quarter hours"? Where I'm at, nothing runs on time unfortunately. Over here I sometimes feel arrival times of trains should just say "morning" instead of showing an actual time like 8:20 am.
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- rootsandstones 4y agoIn 2021 91.9 percent of the trains in Switzerland were on time (tolerance is 3 minutes) Source: https://news.sbb.ch/artikel/109510/puenktlichkeit-2021-zweitbestes-resultat-in-der-geschichte-der-sbb https://news.sbb.ch/artikel/109510/puenktlichkeit-2021-zweit...
- 2143 4y agoWhat about buses? Are they also super-punctual?
- jyounker 4y agoYes. All jokes about Swiss punctuality are true. I say this as someone who lived in Zurich for two years.
- grp 4y agoIn cities, there are many bus lanes to bypass traffic. And they circulate several times per hour, 6 or more. Even if sometimes they are not punctual, the density saves you and you rarely think about it.
- johannes1234321 4y agoNot only are there lanes to bypass traffic, almost more important is that the traffic lights are controlled to prioritize the busses. Thus if a bus comes the traffic lights turn and hold green so that the cars in front of the bus can clear the crossing for the bus. And there are dense schedules, so that if one bus is delayed to some problem the next one is close by, thus gap is little.
- johannes1234321 4y agoThat was the integration into the Swiss train schedule. They improved the line (electrification which allows better trains, moving tran station in Lindau from the island with old town to the shore etc.) in the first year they went from 4h30 to 4h. Where the trains were standing for about half an hour at St. Magrethen at the Austrian-Swiss border. In 2021 they improved signalling and adjusted schedules and got rid of that half an hour wait, so it's now at 3h35.