Why Europe’s Trains Are So Much Better Than America's

Re:Why Europe’s Trains Are So Much Better Than America's by hannob on Thursday September 10, 2015 @06:46PM (#10201023)

As someone from Germany I find the description in the first chapter a bit idealized.

The truth is: Trains in Germany are also notoriously late. And the Wifi quite often doesn't work as another commenter already mentioned.

(that doesn't change the fact that of course the German rail system is much better than the one in the US - but one shouldn't overidealize it, it has lots of problems itself)

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Re:Why Europe’s Trains Are So Much Better Than America's by ahh on Thursday September 10, 2015 @07:08PM (#10201118)

I don't have data on this, but I am willing to bet your German definition of "notoriously late" is much more stringent than an American's. (Not that you're wrong to think that: we've just gotten used to extremely low standards in America because all of our public projects are run incompetently.)

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