Die Situation mit der DB ist so schlimm geworden, dass wir sogar Sendungen darüber im öffentlichen US-Radio hören. Natürlich sollten wir von Amerika aus keine Steine auf die europäischen Verkehrssysteme werfen, da unsere außerhalb einiger wichtiger Städte im Allgemeinen schlecht sind, aber es war trotzdem recht interessant, dies heute zufällig zu hören.
https://theworld.org/segments/2025/10/13/the-trains-in-germany-dont-run-on-time
Von blbd
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Yeah, maybe they should sweep in front of their own door first.
Also this claim is just too wide: For example I had a multi hour trip last week and I had basically no delays, same for my trains to work the last couple of weeks, even with construction going on on our line.
Something tells me it was only mentioned to miss direct from an US issue.
DB is a wierd mix of private and state ownership
their ceos have goals to reach for boni, improving the situation with the delays is always one but they get very creative to with the other goals so they dont have to fix this one
The US doesn’t know how trains work. So they have the right to remain silent…
Deutsche Bahn [has ~40% of long trips delayed](https://de.statista.com/infografik/15656/puenktlichkeit-der-deutschen-bahn/) by 6 min or more. American airlines (not the company) had [24% of their trips delayed](https://travelfreak.com/airline-delay-statistics/) (or cancelled) in 2023, with an average delay of 72 minutes.
If we could find statistics of being late than more than 15 minutes instead I bet **DB would be below 20%**.
Well from what I‘ve read Amtrak often has massive delays and they’re system is not nearly as dense or far reaching as the German railways
The premiere episode of the US reality competition series The Amazing Race (it aired last month) made it perfectly clear the trains in Germany not only don’t run on time they are sometimes outright cancelled. Several contestants learned this the hard way.