Emeritus Prof Christopher May on Nostr: #schadenfreude klaxon: In complaints about UK's #railways, our rail service is often ...
#schadenfreude klaxon:
In complaints about UK's #railways, our rail service is often compared to that available to our neighbours in #Europe.... unfortunately it seems that in #Germany at least, the railways are beset by a series of similar problems to our own (not least due to a vibrant & politically well connected German automotive sector);
the problem of devaluing #publictransport would seem not to be a problem limited to these shores.
(tbf, I never thought it was)
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/oct/14/its-the-same-daily-misery-germanys-terrible-trains-are-no-joke-for-a-nation-built-on-efficiency
In complaints about UK's #railways, our rail service is often compared to that available to our neighbours in #Europe.... unfortunately it seems that in #Germany at least, the railways are beset by a series of similar problems to our own (not least due to a vibrant & politically well connected German automotive sector);
the problem of devaluing #publictransport would seem not to be a problem limited to these shores.
(tbf, I never thought it was)
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/oct/14/its-the-same-daily-misery-germanys-terrible-trains-are-no-joke-for-a-nation-built-on-efficiency