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German travel chaos blamed on lack of investment in railways (www.theguardian.com)
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[โ€“] Krzd@lemmy.world 41 points 10 months ago (3 children)

It's because after privatization the DB (Deutsche Bahn) figured out that neglecting their infrastructure until it causes a crisis, causing the government to step in and pay for repairs is much cheaper (for them) than maintaining it properly in the first place.
Seriously, fuck the DB.

[โ€“] Domkat@feddit.de 20 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Fuck the idiots that had the idea that the DB should be run like a private profitoriented company. Nurture, embrace, rebuild and improve the DB.

[โ€“] Opafi@feddit.de 7 points 10 months ago

But the first few people that could say that their quaterly numbers were so much better argued that their quaterly numbers were so much better! How could you argue with capitalism?

[โ€“] Unsaved5831@lemm.ee 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I read somewhere that they prioritised cargo trains over passenger trains anyway when it comes to delays and service reliability.

Besides, what else? There is only one railway network and you gotta use it anyway no matter how trashy it gets.

They don't even need to compete for passengers.

[โ€“] Krzd@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I think passenger trains generally have priority over cargo, but on the main "paths" they have a separate set of rails anyway.

[โ€“] freebee@sh.itjust.works 1 points 10 months ago

Depends per line and train I think, some tiny local passenger train is always last in line.