Only 51.5% of long-distance trains were on time last month, Germany’s Süddeutsche Zeitung reported, and state-owned railway company Deutsche Bahn later confirmed the figures to dpa.

  • A_norny_mousse@feddit.org
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    4 days ago

    state-owned railway company

    Just to clarify: DB is a (stock) company foremost, partially privatised, i.e. they need to make revenue. The process of making it competitive has been ongoing since at least the 1990s and most people agree that’s the reason for DB being such a constant fuck-up.

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      Yeah, just look where the post comes from. The headline (followed once again by just a few lines of content) helps to let Germany or Europe look bad, that’s all what OP aims at.

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        Yeah, just look where the post comes from.

        Let other people have agendas, too.

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      No - because the do not count trains that either never started their journey, or that stopped midway through and turned around. It’s a really sorry trick to make the statistic look “better”.

      “It’s not delayed, it just… Jever got there!”