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‘It’s the same daily misery’: Germany’s terrible trains are no joke for a nation built on efficiency
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 15 Oct 2023
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Former managers of Deutsche Bahn did not care to invest into modernization. Managers get money for showing and keeping plus in their Excel sheets. They leave the company with all kinds of bonuses for that and risk no repercussions.
The next generation of managers are simply fucked. They inherit all the neglected infrastructure and bad processes.
Additionally politics made it even worse. They told the managers that repairs are not a matter of subsidies. Only new infrastructure is supported. So Deutsche Bahn literally let the tracks and stations rot until they need to be totally renewed.
This all based on absolute greed. And the best is you can harm Germany for free without any risks and keep all your money. No one here would get the idea to jail the responsible people who let it happen.
Ah the British plan of a greedy corrupt right wing government that refuses to invest in the future and instead takes from it. We have shit trains too. I'd imagine much worse trains.
Gernans make many jokes about British trains being much more reliable in their schedule than Deutsche Bahn.
Well our time zone is one hour behind, so if the train is an hour late you can say "at least it's on time in the UK" and you'd be right twice, because all ours are an hour late 😅
Lol, they're really fucking not.
That's a big problem. If you incentivize a company to not maintain the infrastructure because you will pay for it once it's completely broken it will be completely broken.
The company should still maintain the infrastructure, or pay back their consumers for every missed train. They've been making profit year-in year-out, the least they could do is throw some of their pocket change at the repair crew.
But most of those profits are coming from (or at least came from) DB Schenker, the trucking branch of the Deutsche Bahn. So they made their profits on the roads, not the tracks.
Ah I see, thanks for the context. Nonetheless, can't DB take the profits from the Trucks and invest it in the Trains?