Post #2209172
2026-04-25 04:01 UTC
@odoruhako@mastodon.social France is less centralized than one might think. Since the early 1980s four waves of so-called decentralisation laws have shaped a quite different set, and since 2003 Article 1 of the Constitution of the French Fifth Republic even states that "its organisation is decentralised". The growing complexity of the railway reservation system lies rather with SNCF which gets more and more bureaucratic in many fields - for instance also in refunding tickets for trains running late.
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@KlausGerdGiesen@chaos.social 2026-04-25 06:34
@odoruhako@mastodon.social P.S.: The ultimate explanation is, of course, political: limited ressources, i.e. lack of state subsidies, have forced national railways companies to prioritize. SNCF clearly did not modernize enough its online system, it's even getting worse and more bureaucratic.In Germany, the online system of Deutsche Bahn is much better,but trains are running late more often than not because of a lack of investment in infrastructure.Small countries (Switzerland, Austria, Netherland...) do better.