Germans are having a cultural crisis over the fact that their trains are now chronically late.

“This is an embarrassment, it is a cultural crisis for the German people,” said Andreas Knie, a professor of transport policy at the Berlin Social Science Center. “We love to brag about how we are the best, we are the most efficient, but the late Deutsche Bahn, and our failing football team, are proof that we aren’t making great things anymore.”

https://www.wsj.com/articles/germany-late-trains-national-psyche-7d84166f

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