Germany's 49-euro ticket resulted in significant modal shift from road to rail

Re:Germany's 49-euro ticket resulted in significant modal sh... by currymj on Saturday October 12, 2024 @04:47PM (#41822420)

among intercity trains run by Deutsche Bahn, the on-time rate hovers around 2/3. it's technically true that "most were on time", but one third being late is really terrible, especially since you often need to make a tight connection.

even if your family has no justifiable basis for believing what they do about DB, they happen to be correct by luck.

https://ibir.deutschebahn.com/2023/en/combined-management-re...

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Re:Germany's 49-euro ticket resulted in significant modal sh... by n_plus_1_acc on Saturday October 12, 2024 @05:06PM (#41822594)

Long-distance trains are worse statistically because they travel longer Router and therefore have more opportubities to gain delay. Across all trains, puncuality is like 95%.

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Re:Germany's 49-euro ticket resulted in significant modal sh... by currymj on Saturday October 12, 2024 @05:11PM (#41822648)

that is true, but tons of highly frequent on-time commuter trains doesn't help anyone who wants to travel long distances.

right now if you want to go between two cities you always have to plan on missing your connection.

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Re:Germany's 49-euro ticket resulted in significant modal sh... by sadcherry on Sunday October 13, 2024 @01:19AM (#41825364)

I wouldn't call a 7 minutes delay "terrible".

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Re:Germany's 49-euro ticket resulted in significant modal sh... by iggldiggl on Sunday October 13, 2024 @02:11PM (#41830158)

It is if you miss a connection that only runs hourly or so. (Even with a half-hourly connection it'd be annoying.)

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