Попалась тут на реддите статья про Deutsche Bah. Англоязычная, т.к. в The Guardian, но от немецкого автора из Süddeutsche Zeitung.
Erratic Deutsche Bahn services make our commutes a misery. Luckily, their meaningless announcements are an art form, says German journalist Jens Schneider
www.theguardian.com
Ну и немного цитат:
when 200 musicians had to delay the start of a prestigious concert in Berlin recently because their train was late, I, along with many other longsuffering German rail travellers, reacted by thinking: “Typical, welcome to the club.”
The Munich Philharmonic was on tour and due to perform Mahler’s Second Symphony.
But at Cologne, their connecting train did not show, nor did the one after that, nor the next one either. The exhausted musicians arrived in the capital more than four hours after they had planned.
this September only 58.4% of Deutsche Bahn’s long-distance trains ran on time.
the Swiss refusing to allow late-running German trains on to their network.
Verzögerungen im Betriebsablauf is the magic phrase for not getting anywhere fast while also suggesting everything is full steam ahead. It is sinister in a beautiful way. It is a phrase Kafka might use if he were writing today, a perfect description of a situation where no one can do anything but everyone is busy.
Ну а кто-то (кто не увидит это сообщение) сказал бы, что никаких проблем с поездами не испытывает и они всегда по расписанию ходят
