ICE is 30 minutes late again. I'm really pissed about that.

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• idiomaddict@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I can’t wait until ICE goes to Nuremberg

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  • Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    It certainly should.

    But I still value the work ethics of the ICE personal very much.

    It’s not their fault that their employer isn’t able to coordinate procedures efficiently…

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    • ShouldIHaveFun@sh.itjust.works ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Indeed, the lack of spending on the rail infrastructure in the last few decades has probably more to do with politics (cough cough car lobby cough cough) than the Deutsche Bahn’s personal. I always like how the personal has a humorous and chill way of announcing the delays.

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    • SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Hey, you try to be effective while taking the worst possible decision every time! Those poor manages! 😭

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  • Nomad@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Nice joke, love it.

    For the non German people: ICE here is intercity express. Our cops are somewhat more tolerable than yours.

    Also German Rail is always late.

    And for the people that don’t get the Nuremberg part: that’s where the Nazi trials were held.

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• python@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Read up on your passenger rights! With more than 20mins (projected) delay, your “Zugbindung” ends and you can take any other ICE to your destination. If your delay is more than an hour, you get a 25% refund, if it’s over 2 hours the refund is 50%. If you miss any following trains, need to take a taxi or need to stay in a hotel because of the delay, DB will refund you the cost of that as well. You’re also entitled to a free drink in the train at some point, I don’t know the specifics of that off the top of my head though

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  • Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    This is solid advice, although in my case it has been a ticket without Zugbindung, as it has been for a work trip.

    I got reimbursed one time last year, but had several trips where the delay annoyingly just stayed a few minutes below the magic 1hr mark. :-)

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• KyuubiNoKitsune@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Internal Combustion Engine? Maybe you should try the train.

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• DmMacniel@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Only 30 minutes? That’s cute.

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  • Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I am confident that there is still growth potential along the remaining route!

    Let me tell you about me once trying to get from Mainz to Nürnberg some time…

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• Treczoks@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  At least it arrives. Not like in Siegburg/Bonn where they just pass through if they are late.

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  • Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Wow, that must be the most frustrating feeling ever.
    “Your halt has been canceled today…”

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    • Treczoks@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I went there for my train, and there was a large amount of people waiting for the late previous ICE. Suddenly, the display showing the late train switched to the train I was waiting for, and a moment later, an ICE rushed through on the center track.

      I’ve rarely seen a more pissed off group of people.

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• lime@feddit.nu ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  fuck ice.

  worst train experience of my life.

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  • VonReposti@feddit.dk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Let me tell you about the wonders of DSB. You expect a train and lo and behold, it’s a “train bus”!

    If I have to take the “train” anywhere the next 4 months I need to take one of those infamous “train busses”

    But hey, at least the trains are working and on time when there’s not construction work? Think again! That is the time for signaling errors, brakes that fall off the trains, or leaves on the track! And guess what that means? More train busses!!

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    • Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      There was a bus substitute on one of my routes some time ago.
      Turned out it was faster than the train because it took the Autobahn.
      First time in my life arriving 20 mins early at that destination…

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    • lime@feddit.nu ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      at least the toilets were working on dsb. last time i was on an ice every toilet except one was out of order. on a full night train from münchen to hamburg.

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• baggachipz@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  As a foreigner, ICE was so great a decade ago when I went to Germany regularly. What happened to destroy this beacon of fine travel?

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  • Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    What happened […]?

    The long term effects of privatization and decades of car centric politics.

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    • baggachipz@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      That sucks. I saw the DB as a model of envy.

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  • Spezi@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    The CDU never invested in the necessary maintenance, so from 2022 to 2025, SPD, Grüne and FDP had to push through funding all the necessary repairs and modernizations at once, crippling the whole network for the next 10-20 years. Part of it is beeing modernized while the rest now has a higher demand than what its capable of. Since the network is already very tightly packed, one small incident can cause a domino effect of trains beeing late throughout Germany.

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• TheBat@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Honestly, all countries should handover train management to Japan.

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  • Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Or the Swiss.

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    • TheBat@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I don’t trust their ‘neutrality’

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  • f314@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Indeed! For example, the Tōkaidō high speed line between Tokyo and Osaka runs almost 400 trains every day with an average delay of about 12 seconds 🤯

    Bear in mind that this is just the high speed service (Shinkansen). There is also a parallel line for local trains.

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• renzhexiangjiao@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  meanwhile, die Züge in Polen:

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  • SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Dear DB. That’s not a challenge, don’t you dare to accept it!

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  • Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    So we are still not worst?
    I guess that’s… uplifting?

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  • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Oh my god +161m what the fuck

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• Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

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  Return voyage working out much better, so l am happy again! :-)

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  • RidderSport@feddit.org ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Casually flexing on americans about chilling and drinking coffee while running at 300kph on green electricity as well as being comfortable

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    • synapse1278@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      The green electricity part is debatable. From my balcony I have a very nice view of the giant smoke stack from the coal power plant and on the other direction the giant smoke stack from the sewage treatment plant where they burn solid wastes, I hope to recover some energy, although I am not sure about that.

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  • just_an_average_joe@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Bro be happy it was only 30 mins. I have travelled with db to munich once. It got delayed 2 hours to munich and then 2 hours back as well. Always take flixbus if going to munich from west side

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• pewpew@feddit.it ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  In Italy, our train system is notorious for being always late… They actually celebrate when they are on time, no joke

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  • Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Celebrating sounds very Italian… We Germans just share some sarcastic comments with our fellow travellers. :-)

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• Evolushan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  The other day I was supposed to take an ICE, which was canceled, and all the next ones as well for that day. So they had replacement buses. 4 per train… which means that when i arrived at 11.30 for my “train-bus” replacement, the 4 buses that left were from the 9.30 slot. By the time the buses for the 10.30 slot arrived, there were people from the 12.30 train there. You can imagine I gave up and did not go.

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  • Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    You can imagine I gave up and did not go.

    Not an option for me, mandatory appointment.

    But something similar happened for as with your buses, but fortunately in a good way:
    The preceding ICE was even more delayed, so I was able to catch that one instead. :-)

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• froh42@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Come on, if you were in Minneapolis, you’d be happy about that.

  Ok, ok, I’ll let myself out.

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• ZkhqrD5o@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  The virgin DB ICE vs the gigachad ÖBB Railjet.

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• xodasu@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Ugh, been there. Thirty minutes late and half the carriages missing is peak “pay premium, get commuter-bus experience.” Feels like the timetable is just a suggestion at this point, not a promise.

  Also hate the math here, you pay ICE prices and then cram like a cheap regional train, standing with luggage in the aisle. Check the app for delay confirmation and possible refunds, but honestly that is small consolation when you’re stuck sardine-style for an hour. Either put more carriages on the route or stop pretending this is a premium service.

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• bigmamoth@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  German qfality The downfall of germany should be studied. Ice are cool, sad it’s shit like anything in that country anymore

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