Wednesday, December 2, 2020

A German Coronabsurdity on the railway

Deutsche Bahn, German Rail has announced that it is only selling reservations for seats diagonally opposite on its trains - but it will not block off other seats for passengers.

This story of Deutsche Bahn, which in so many ways represents much of what Germany stands for, certainly tells a tale about the current DB and indeed Germany, when it makes such an arrangement as this.

Then again, it's in the time on the Coronavirus and it was after all reported by the tabloid Bild Zeitung.

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