DB wants ICE running from Cologne to London via the Chunnel | 30 comments (30 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)

DB is trying to buy Arriva, the British transport operator, for €2.7 billion.

Oh, please do.

(Arriva runs a lot of trains and buses in Denmark - on those occasions when they actually run...)

- Jake

Friends come and go. Enemies accumulate.

by JakeS (JangoSierra 'at' gmail 'dot' com) on Fri May 28th, 2010 at 04:01:42 PM EST

Then you'll get to hear DB personal trying to speak Danish. Good luck: the takeover by DB of the EC trains to Italy has resulted in the most atrocious Italian I've ever heard....

by gk (gk (gk quattro due due sette @gmail.com)) on Fri May 28th, 2010 at 04:07:23 PM EST
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Re: Buying Arriva (4.00 / 3)

Trains in Denmark have automated announcement systems - the driver can speak Klingon for all the passengers will normally care.

- Jake

Friends come and go. Enemies accumulate.

by JakeS (JangoSierra 'at' gmail 'dot' com) on Fri May 28th, 2010 at 04:10:03 PM EST
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Re: Buying Arriva (none / 1)

Dn't Arriva?

by njh on Fri May 28th, 2010 at 07:44:42 PM EST
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Re: Buying Arriva (4.00 / 4)

Initially they didn't. They got better on the whole actually sticking to a time table thing, but we still have to put up with the fact that they treat their drivers like shit - which means that the drivers will, at regular intervals, flat out refuse to pilot the buses, on account of it being unsafe to do so with the rest periods allotted to them.

- Jake

Friends come and go. Enemies accumulate.

by JakeS (JangoSierra 'at' gmail 'dot' com) on Fri May 28th, 2010 at 07:47:35 PM EST
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DB wants ICE running from Cologne to London via the Chunnel | 30 comments (30 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

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