Yesterday morning, it seems that there was, once again, total chaos at the Munich MVV. I read about traffic hold-ups at Marienplatz.
Allegedly, the S-Bahn trains only came at irregular intervals and late until noontime. And thousands of commuters experienced massive delays.
In the AZ , you can read all about the reasons. It is an absolutely readable article, even though from a ”tabloid paper“.
The tiniest reasons are enough to cause a delay. For instance, an underground train signal that kept signalling “RED”. And at the S-Bahn trains, someone collapsed on the main line. Both incidents were enough to cause a public transport infarct.
Tonight, Germany will play against Belgium. A soccer game. If one of the players gets hurt – even if seriously – he will be carried from the playground on a stretcher. The match will continue.
Why is something similar not possible in Germany, where, after all, we have an excellent emergency service? Wouldn’t it be nice if we organized the emergency doctor in such a way that the S-Bahn trains could continue? After all, it is not such a rare occasion for someone in the S-Bahn train to have a health problem.
At least, the fact that there will always be defunct signals is something that justifies the used technology. But here, too, it should be possible to find solutions, shouldn’t it? This kind of blockage should be something you can repair in no time – or else at least keep up some reduced sort of “emergency service”.
As it is, taking the MVV to go places really no longer makes sense. Whenever I need to catch a train, I take an earlier S-Bahn train than the connection plan suggests as a matter of principle. And still I often have to worry about my connection at Munich Central Station.
Consequently, I am glad about nowadays going most of my ways by bike. The worst that can happen is a flat tyre, and that is a problem you can easily solve.
So I now mount my Roadster and am on my way to the M,O,C, München to the COMMUNICATIONWORLD in the North of Munich. Regardless of the fact that it is quite close to the U6 stop at Kieferngarten.
I look forward to a nice bike ride.
RMD
(Translated by EG)
P.S.
I took the picture from the media archive Wikimedia Commons. The author is Maximilian Dörrbecker (Chumwa).
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