It's well deserved, though. Those who take trains only occasionally don't notice, but once you depend on them it's a whole different story. I spend so much tim

It's well deserved, though. Those who take trains only occasionally don't notice, but once you depend on them it's a whole different story. I spend so much time waiting for delayed trains that I made a social media account to keep track of them. In June alone I experienced 15 days with delays - shortest I keep record of is 10 minutes, longest in June was 43 minutes. And I have a friend whose weekly delays are hours long. If I commuted daily (and I don't) my own stats mean I have a 50/50 chance of missing a connection. For my regional trains that means I need to buffer at least half an hour for a 45 minutes trip. Factor in the lack of benches (God forbid the homeless sit on them), the dirty stations, the drug users living in them, the broken equipment... Two trivia points: the "Deutschlandtakt" program will supposedly bring the trains back to their former 90s glory. It is scheduled to be finished in 2070. And the government is reportedly planning to redirect train repair funds to repairing highways instead [1]. The train situation is bad and they deserve every critic they get. [1] https://archive.is/LsMab https://archive.is/LsMab, in German