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The state of the rail system the most reliable measure of how civilized a country really is
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this post was submitted on 16 Sep 2024
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If that is the case then Germany is currently backsliding hard on the civilization scale. The state of the German railways seems to get worse by the day. Feels like every other train is either delayed or cancelled these days. And they don't even announce the cancellation ahead of time, if you go online they have the train as on time and supposedly running according to schedule until 10 min before it was supposed to come and then it's suddenly "never mind, it's not coming after all". And by then it's too late to look for alternative connections, you just gotta wait for the next one and hope that one comes. Makes getting anywhere on time impossible.
Sorry i know this was barely related to the topic of the post, i just needed to get that rant off my chest.
A few years ago, the cargo trains stopped running on a few of the tracks that go through one of our bigger cities and down into many smaller ones nearby. It would be really helpful to put a passenger line going down these tracks. There are ridiculous waves of traffic throughout this area and it's quite a dangerous road due to the speed and volume of cars, particularly in the winter. Much of this could be relieved by a passenger train and the tracks are already there!
In the last two years, every city has paved over these railway crossings. I guess all we get is cars.
nice pipeline, it'd be a shame if something happened to it
Germany is absolutely backsliding.
That is worrying for a lot of reasons lol