I recently traveled from my small town to Cologne - it is such a shit show, I cannot imagine how people cope with it for years. I took more or less a direct connection, but trains would be late (30 min or even 2h late), skipped parts of the route, 1st class is a joke (it is like in a tram, people with flat-rate tickets can run there without a reservation and occupy free places) - it is certainly a very bad deal if you already own a car, since even not considering that every journey with DB is an adventure, is pretty expensive, even with discounted tickets. If you travel with a family, it is a terrible and very expensive choice overall.
In my bubble even people who where holding out for decades are giving up and getting a car. DB is falling apart and needs to scale down the number of trains until the network can manage it, from this point on it is about investments.
I am not even that bullish on rail network, since I mostly drive from one small town to another one and public transport does nothing for me. But at least big town to big town connection should work like a clock.
In my bubble even people who where holding out for decades are giving up and getting a car. DB is falling apart and needs to scale down the number of trains until the network can manage it, from this point on it is about investments.
I am not even that bullish on rail network, since I mostly drive from one small town to another one and public transport does nothing for me. But at least big town to big town connection should work like a clock.