Deutsche Bahn’s Meltdown and High-Speed Rail
It&#x27;s actually absurd that it costs me ~£15-25 to fly from London Stansted to Hamburg (1 hr flight), but 145 euros (one way) to get the high speed train to Munich (6 hours).<p>The regional trains are absurd. The platforms are completely congested with human bodies, and even the long double decker trains are often totally full. To me it seems that there simply aren&#x27;t enough services every day to carry the capacity of people who want to use the trains. Even before the 9 euro ticket it was borderline unusable. I did a midday Monday journey last September from Hamburg -&gt; Lübeck -&gt; Stralsund -&gt; Samtens and each part of the journey apart from the last was totally full. Lübeck -&gt; Stralsund was ran by nah.sh but it was an absolutely tiny train with even barely any standing room, let alone seating. Germans just accept it and groan, in classic German fashion: this is how it is, it&#x27;s not going to change, just accept it.