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Trusting German rail companies to do anything sane or agreed upon is a fool's errand. Their leadership and structures are so brittle, things just don't get done
by meibo 5y ago
Trusting German rail companies to do anything sane or agreed upon is a fool's errand. Their leadership and structures are so brittle, things just don't get done.
I say companies, because DB is split into 500 sub-companies that have their own infrastructure and seemingly don't work together very effectively.
- mschuster91 5y agoThe problem in that specific case is not the Bahn organization itself, but politics. On one hand you have a lot of regional NIMBYs, and on the other hand we have had 16 years of Conservative government which was wholly bought off by the car lobby which meant that there was no interest in solving the issues (even if, need be, by drowning the NIMBYs in money). Only thing that got done railway-wise is the start of Stuttgart 21 (which is mostly a prestige project, not something that actually makes sense) and the start of the 2nd Munich S-Bahn tunnel.