SBB was having a bad day
Published by marco on
Today was not a great day for the SBB.
I took three trains to get where I was going and each of them was 3-4 minutes late. The Swiss pack their schedules pretty tightly, so 4 minutes late at the end meant that the SBB had eaten up the two-minute buffer between the train’s arrival in Dietikon and the departure of the 301 bus I was meant to catch.
It was only a 1km walk, so no big deal, but it might have sucked more had it been raining even harder than it was—or had it been as windy as it has been lately.
Here’s the KIS—Kunden Information System—on the final train.
- It always shows the planned departure time, never the actual departure time.
- It never indicates that it’s going to arrive late. Instead, it always shows the hopeful ETA from the schedule.
- The little clock on the right shows 08:25:25, which would mean that the train was leaving after it was scheduled to arrive.
- However, the clock was wrong too! It was actually 08:20 at the time.
- The train ended up leaving at 08:23 and getting to Dietikon at 08:29, long after the bus had left.
In the SBB App on my phone, it wrote “The connection cannot be guaranteed” for the bus. No 💩.