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I think current gas prices will help shift that a bit. I don't think they are coming down anytime soon.

• andix 5y ago
  Building new train tracks still takes at least a decade. Usually you need one decade to properly plan the route (it's hugely political were the track runs exactly, next to village A or village B? get all the legal stuff done, move a few people out of their houses and find replacements for them, dispossess the fields from farmers, geological examination, drawing the plans, and much more). And then you need another decade to actually build it. Germany is highly populated, so you need to build a lot of tunnels under or close to villages to protect them of the train noise. For this tunnel planning was started in 1996, construction started in 2008, and it will be finished in 2032. So 36 years in total.