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PugJesus@lemmy.world to memes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months ago

We live in a public transit hell

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We live in a public transit hell

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PugJesus@lemmy.world to memes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months ago
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    Tokyo I’ve heard. For sure not Europe. Halve of the scheduled trains didn’t run today in Belgium.

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      Switzerland is pretty good at well with trains.

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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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            They were just happy it wasn’t them for once.

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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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          And if a train is canceled, it doesn’t go into the delayed train statistics as delayed.

          https://media.tenor.com/qRq6uenJInkAAAAM/think-smart-meme.gif

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            Oh true, I forgot that. Nice little talk by David Kriesel on that topic: https://media.ccc.de/v/36c3-10652-bahnmining_-_punktlichkeit_ist_eine_zier

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      That’s still more trains than in the US

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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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      To be fair they’re striking because checks notes their special treatment is ending.

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

      Only half were cancelled? Man, that sounds nice.

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      “Halve” isn’t a word.

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        To “halve” something is a real thing. But I think the word wasn’t used exactly right here…

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        Multilingual Belgian makes a mistake in English. I think we can give them a pass on this one.

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