> The German rail infrastructure is so outdated ... If DB updates infrastructure, that's on their budget (and while 100% publicly held and lots of politicians

> The German rail infrastructure is so outdated ... If DB updates infrastructure, that's on their budget (and while 100% publicly held and lots of politicians involved, it's nominally private). If it breaks down so much that it needs to be repeated, that's coming from federal funds. We have some perverse incentives in infrastructure maintenance.