one cannot help but notice the number of complaints,
about bus and particularly train services receive, about late running or even none existent trains, well take heart British commuters, you are not alone! German commuter and knitter Claudia Weber travels regularly
from her town Moosburg in the Bavarian countryside to Munich,
due to track repairs which began last year, her train commute was replaced with a bus service that would often be delayed for up to 30 minutes or longer, Weber decided to start detailing her daily travel troubles by translating the delays into a wool scarf, each evening after she returned home she would add two new rows to her textile work,
gray for any delay under five minutes, pink for when she had to wait up to 30 minutes, and bright red for a delay that lasted more than a half hour or was in both directions, She titled her four-foot-long finished
work “Bahn-Verspätungsschal,” or “rail delay scarf,” which went viral
after it was posted
by her daughter Sara on Twitter, after becoming a hit, she decided to
auction it off on eBay to raise money for Bahnhofs
Mission, a charity that provides assistance at train stations, the scarf
sold to an undisclosed buyer for 7,550 euros or $8,650, that was the good news, the bad news? nothing has improved, she has started another scarf! via The New York Times.
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