March 17: chaos in Köln Hbf even though the strike hasn't technically started yet. In my platform alone, ...
... the ICE to München announced itself on time, then 20 minutes late, then 33 and it finally settled on 66 minutes delay,
... the regional train to Aachen departs 90 minutes late and from a different platform,
... a train from Berlin arrives 40 minutes late, and
... an ICE from Hamburg arrives 20 minutes late.
And all of this after midnight, when things should have already calmed down.
Update: I should have learned by now not to publish updates when I board the train and to only do it once I arrive. Currently 24 minutes late.
March 12: 14 minutes delay on my way to Düsseldorf and 13 minutes delay on my way from Düsseldorf. Say what you will but at least they are consistent.
March 5: I try to take the 17:04 train in Bonn Hbf but it's 23 minutes late so I try the 17:10 RB48 instead. Then the RB48 suffers a technical malfunction and cannot leave the station, meaning we now have two trains worth of travelers for a single, delayed one. The doors cannot close due to the amount of passengers, adding another minute to the delay.
It's that time of the year again when the
#kvbkoeln reminds us that they forbade electric scooters on their trains to ensure we're helpless whenever they decide to strike.
If you depend on public transport next Friday... try not to?
https://www.kvb.koeln/fahrtinfo/streik.htmlSaw this sign on my way today. My reading: if you're one of the more than 2.5 million people living in this area there will be so much noise, cancellations and deviations in the next five months that we couldn't fit them in this poster. For more info here's a URL that doesn't work and a second one telling you not to trust the plan and to check daily instead (no, really).
Of course, I wrote this post while arriving 26 minutes late.
February 26: my Tram was canceled and I missed my RE, turning a 10 minutes delay into 20. My VRS app doesn't really know what to suggest to me because, deep down, it knows there's no good alternative suggestion.
Correction: instead of taking the half-an-hour-late RE I ended up taking a third train that canceled its further trip due to delays and departed back from Bonn with "only" 15 minutes delay.
The Sun is still not out.
February 24: woke up at 4am to join a friend who tried to reach Frankfurt from Köln via Regional trains. Our very first RE collected so much delay out of Köln Hbf that we wouldn't make it on time, meaning my friend had to buy an ICE ticket for a train that's 25 minutes late while I go back on an RE that's half an hour late.
People, IT'S NOT EVEN 7! THE SUN IS NOT EVEN OUT YET! If 5 in the morning is not safe from delays, then really, what's left?
February 20: almost 15 minutes delay on the RE9.
