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ICE test train reaches speeds of up to 405.0 km/h

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113 points doener | 1 comments | 29 Jun 25 22:43 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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fjfaase ◴[30 Jun 25 04:24 UTC] No.44419355[source]▶
I fear that the general public in Germany will not be praising this achievement. The once efficient and punctional trains in Germany have deteriorated severely in the past years due to lots of delayed maintenance causing lots of delays and even regular cancelations of trains. Also the road infrastructure is suffering from delayed maintenance.
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1. pjmlp ◴[30 Jun 25 06:31 UTC] No.44420115[source]▶
Agreed, nowadays I have to schedule train exchanges to have at least 30 m between them, and even so, I managed to miss connections.

DB is doing their best work for having people reaching out for cars.

While you might get stuck in traffic on the motorway, there are usually workarounds as soon as you get the next exit point, while being stuck on an train stopped in the middle of nowehere with a full train excedding passanger capacity because "pick random excuse", and reservations being optional, isn't really motivating to keep traveling by train.