03-07-2016, 07:52 PM
(03-07-2016, 06:59 PM)plam Wrote: More than a handful; I have been on a number of late Swiss trains, including one that was 15 minutes late on Friday and one that was 4 minutes late on Sunday. The linked article said 15% of trains were more than 3 minutes late. But it's actually not a disaster for a train to be late, since at worst you wait for the next train an hour later.
I've seen the data for 2008 or so from friends who work at SBB. It was really a handful, though when there is a problem, such as construction, there tends to be a cascading effect with a run of late trains (each instance is still counted individually). From the article posted here by tomh009 it seems that things have gotten much worse as of late, and people are upset since they are not used to it.