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If it's always delayed, why not just plan to take an earlier route?
If you leave work at 6pm and want to take the train at 6:15 to get home at 7, including one change of trains, and your train has 15 minutes delay, you miss the connection. Then you have to wait for the next train, which might be an hour wait. Then that train is delayed by 20 minutes and you get home at 8:30. That's the real problem of the delays.
Right, so my point is that it's actually a 6:30 train now.
That doesn't help because the connections are planned to be meeting this train at the planned time. They plan the trains so that you can move from one to the next to reach your destination. And they know who is on which train and sometimes they'll delay a connected train to get everyone aboard. But that's rare and you can't plan for shit like that. And if your plan is to count it as a 6:30 train, your 45 minute commute turns into a 2h+ commute. At that point, I'd buy a car.
What if you need to get the last train of the day or there are just two or something trains a day in total?
That doesn’t fix the issue. No food? Why not eat less.
I value my time and time with my family. By car my work commute (only one way) was 30min long. By train, if it would be on time 50min - in reality more like 1.15-1.45h, and like I said sometimes the trains would not go for an hour (especially on the way home). I am willing to make a sacrifice of 30 minutes but losing about 1-1.30 hours a day because of delays, I would rather drive by car if I really need to go to work. Thankfully I work Homeoffice most times now so I don’t need to take either one.
I would be more than happy to take public transportation more often again when needed, but like I mentioned - I think that Deutsche Bahn has a lot of work to put in.
I never said to use less transit ...