• CrazyLikeGollum@lemmy.worldEnglish
    19·
    6 days ago

    Meanwhile in Japan: Train is 30 seconds late “here’s a letter for your employer explaining why you were only 29 minutes and 30 seconds early for your 8 hour shift that will inevitably have an additional 8 hours of unpaid overtime tacked on to it.”

  • gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de
    311·
    7 days ago

    funny but inaccurate

    i live in vienna. the train comes so often, nobody bothers to check the schedule anymore. just wait 2 mins, enter, go.

  • JargonWagon@lemmy.world
    30·
    7 days ago

    American here - I recently started taking the train to go to work! Previously I couldn’t due to no trains scheduled for the return home trip after my shift was over, but after getting a new schedule, I got on board the train! So far in the past two months, I’ve already had a few instances of the train being delayed or missing it entirely. One day, the train was delayed by 30 minutes and stated they would be held for an unknown amount of time to put out a fire on the tracks at a station ahead - drove into work that day. Another day, the train was delayed by 5 minutes. Outside of that, I was late to the train by like 5 minutes and it left without me (still adjusting to early morning schedule).

    So far, I like taking the train much more than driving the car.

    • lud@lemm.ee
      102·
      7 days ago

      Of course the trains leave without you if you are 5 min late.

      It will leave without you if you are 30 seconds late. Hell, it will even leave if you are 5 seconds late unless they see you running and are feeling extra nice.

      • JargonWagon@lemmy.world
        5·
        7 days ago

        Never said it shouldn’t! Just means it’s running on time. Like I said, I’m still adjusting to the early schedule.

    • przemek@lemm.ee
      2·
      6 days ago

      I’m Polish but I also made the switch to use public transport instead of my car, even though it’s not the cheapest once you’re not a student anymore. I feel better though knowing how much fuel I save by not driving in traffic for 1.5h 4 days a week. The other thing is that the money goes to the city so I will likely benefit from it in some way

        • przemek@lemm.ee
          1·
          4 days ago

          True, although this aspect is actually an area where I prefer driving. I find it relaxing to zone out my thoughts and just focus on what’s ahead of me with my favorite music. Depending on time of day, trains here are a bit tough to study in due to how many people there are

    • NewDay@feddit.org
      3·
      6 days ago

      BMW, VW and Mercedes. The German Bundesbahn was perfect then the CDU, CSU and FDP killed it due to lobbyism. Now, the politicians suck the cocks of the CEOs of the mentioned companies. SPD and Grüne always say that the Deutsche Bahn needs more money, but they had the chance between 98 and 05. Did they change something? No there was not enough money according to them.

      • ℍ𝕂-𝟞𝟝@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        3·
        6 days ago

        Not even the biggest thing that beautiful trio ruined. Their lobbying and Mutti Merkel’s politics were the main contributors to the Hungary problem. So if you want to know why common defense policies get vetoed or why is the Ukraine response is a shitshow, the root cause is that VW needed cheap exploitable workers.

    • Olhonestjim@lemmy.world
      1·
      6 days ago

      Really? As an American who had never ridden a train before, I was impressed by Germany’s public transit. I remember wishing we had such systems everywhere over here.

      Honestly though, I’d prefer high speed mag-lev systems that run like clockwork.

  • Grizzlyboy@lemm.eeEnglish
    6·
    7 days ago

    Most of my country doesn’t have trains. The only train on time goes to the airport, yes THE airport. Everything else is buss for train. And I purposely didn’t mention the country but everyone from here knows it when they read buss for train.

      • Bloomcole@lemmy.world
        26·
        6 days ago

        OP is a mod banning anyone opposing his regime appologetics.
        And I think your german fascist US bootlicking warmongering government is irresponsible. Worry about that

        • tetris11@feddit.ukEnglish
          2·
          6 days ago

          I don’t know this mod but I do know that I have PugJesus blocked on my other accounts for some reason. I guess I’ll block him on this one too

          • Bloomcole@lemmy.world
            21·
            6 days ago

            Maybe it’s best I do too, he spouts so much BS I’m getting tired of countering it all the time.

  • zout@fedia.io
    214·
    8 days ago

    As a European I have to say, you are very optimistic about our train schedules.

    • Bilb!@lem.monsterEnglish
      2·
      6 days ago

      Not to downplay any of the myriad problems here in the USA, but I think many of us are trying to believe that a better world is possible and this sometimes leads to unrealistic views of how much better things are abroad. Sometimes.

      But I am hopeful that this country is increasingly humiliated for at least a couple of decades.

    • PugJesus@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      962·
      8 days ago

      The blind hope that somewhere in this world there is a functioning public transit system is all that keep me going some days. Let me have this

      • rafagnious@lemmy.world
        3·
        6 days ago

        Honestly, the perspective of what constitutes a functioning public transit system depends a lot on what you have as a point of reference.

        I’m portuguese but I lived in Germany for 5 months during which I used exclusively public transports and bikes. Central Europeans complain a lot about Deutsche Bahn and indeed during this time I saw a few strikes, delays and suppressions. However, transports were still much more reliable and much more frequent than I’m used too so I could never really consider it problematic, although my Central European friends complained a lot.

      • fishy@lemmy.todayEnglish
        2·
        7 days ago

        I take the light rail into work from the suburbs of Seattle into downtown. Trains run every 7-8 minutes. They’re expanding it in all directions now. Only downside is that a lot of homeless ride the train because it’s cold as heck on the streets. That’s a societal problem though, not an issue with the train.

      • iii@mander.xyzEnglish
        641·
        8 days ago

        Tokyo I’ve heard. For sure not Europe. Halve of the scheduled trains didn’t run today in Belgium.

      • NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io
        9·
        8 days ago

        Japan is the MVP here. I live there and I literally have never seen a train not arrive exactly at the scheduled time. However “public” transport is privately owned so… Uh… Yeah, tradeoffs.

          • NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io
            9·
            8 days ago

            Is it expensive to ride?

            Yeah. It also stops running at around 11 or 12 so if you stay out late you just might find you can’t get back home.

            • AA5B@lemmy.world
              1·
              7 days ago

              Must pe nice. Here I was about to add that you can’t take a train to work if you might have to stay a bit late, but trains outside rush hour are one hour, then two hours apart, and stop way too early

      • isolatedscotch@discuss.tchncs.de
        6·
        8 days ago

        I’ve been in Vienna from time to time, and it’s pretty good, 365€/year for the pass that gets you buses, trams and subways with unlimited access and no turnstiles anywhere, you just go and enter

        Schedules follow work hours and go from a subway every 2 minutes during peak hours to one every 15mins late at night

        You have night line buses for weekdays and on Saturday night public transport doesn’t shut down

        Coverage is good, you almost always have a bus or tram line less then 5 minutes of walking

        There are bike sharing places with 20 bikes each ~1km apart and they cost 60 cents for half an hour, or e-scooters in the designed locations which are basically everywhere (but being owned by companies they cost so much more then everything else)

      • criss_cross@lemmy.world
        11·
        8 days ago

        A German intern came to our american city and was flabbergasted that the trains here ran consistently.

        I had a laugh since I always assumed it’d be the opposite.

    • ultranaut@lemmy.world
      14·
      8 days ago

      As an American, this is exactly correct. The last time I tried to take Amtrak the train literally did not show up and they told us they had no way to contact it and didn’t know where it was. After waiting many hours with no change in status I finally gave up. The last time I actually rode Amtrak it was multiple hours late and cost about the same as a plane ticket.

    • Cethin@lemmy.zipEnglish
      7·
      7 days ago

      I think watching Jet Lag let’s you see the full breadth of transit systems pretty well, because the whole game relies on it. Japan is amazing. A lot of Europe is good enough that you can get around, some great and some not so great. The US is so bad I don’t think either team bothered taking a train when they did the show there.

      • horse@feddit.org
        6·
        7 days ago

        It’s funny (and accurate) that they keep getting fucked over by Deutsche Bahn.

    • Artyom@lemm.ee
      2·
      7 days ago

      As an American, I would say the same…except about the American train schedules.