Why German trains are never on time any more.
The German rail network has deteriorated over the past 20 years, to the point that Deutsche Bahn has become a source of national embarrassment.
In 2025, only 60% of Deutsche Bahn’s long-distance trains arrived less than five minutes late.
That was one of the worst performances in Europe, where, on average, 80% of such trains were on time.
#DeutscheBahn #Germany #Rail #Trains #Infrastructure #Politics
Reserving a space for my bike on InterCity #trains is hard. It's easy if I only want to book a ticket that's only for the InterCity portion (in this case, #Avanti). Adding on my source (#SWR) and destination (#NorthernRailway) stations, and it says I can't book a space on the outbound service (as far as I can tell, neither provider has reservations or restrictions on bikes).
I will go to my local station tomorrow to see if they can sort it all out.
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I am not entirely in agreement with why it has failed to happen.
The [Darién Gap](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dari%C3%A9n_Gap) is a clear and obvious example of geopolitical interference (though for racist motivations.)
But the benefits you mention - #ZeroEmissions, no #FossilFuel cost so shipping could be cheap enough to pay for it - have direct, immediate #economic impact.
Xi's [Belt & Road Initiative](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belt_and_Road_Initiative) #BRI intends to break the #energy industy's ability to block #rail.
And no, I'm not the only one who has ever thought about it....
But as the https://www.intercontinentalrailway.com railway webpage states:
"technological, geopolitical, and financial challenges thwarted its construction time and time again”
the tech and the finances are available. What still eludes us are the geopolitical conditions.
#Rail #theWorld #Canada #USA #Alaska #Siberia #Russia #Ukraine #ClimateChange #EndFossilFuels #HighSpeed
If the world wasn't so full of greedy, idiotic, assholes we could have ultra high speed zero-emission electric trains connecting North America and Asia and we wouldn't need to pollute the skies or the seas.
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We probably burn more fuel in a day with all the air traffic in the world than it would take to build the entire railway from Prince George or Edmonton through Fairbanks, across the Bering Sea/Land Bridge and on to Yakutsk, Moscow, and Beijing.
It's such a shame, you know?
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Lightning damage causes rush hour train delays on major route into London
A number of the big projects on this Newsweek list are atrocious for air quality (data centers, fossil fuel processing...) but here are two that I feel excited about.
Who here is from California, Las Vegas, or the U.S. east coast? Is America about to get it's first high speed rail?!
#airQuality #Amtrak #rail #transportation #California #LasVegas #Maryland
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