Idk how it is elsewhere, but in France long distance trains are on time most of the time (as shown on the graph) but short distance ones suffer lots of problems daily. Guess which ones the working class uses the most btw ?

So using only the metric of long distance trains feels a little biased.

That being said, I'm all for train regardless of the distance, and most of these issues would be mostly fixed with more infrastructure investment.

[–] turbowafflz@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Interesting, that's pretty much the inverse of the US. Here the long distance Amatrak trains are often hours late because of freight companies not usually letting them by when they're supposed to but the short distance trains like the DC Metro are pretty good

[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 2 points 11 months ago

US passenger rail is a step above cartoon hobos sneaking onto boxcars.