Why does the German railway function so poorly?
Why does the German railway work so badly? Why are there so many cancellations, so many delays? You might think the probability is higher that you get stuck somewhere than get to your destination. What is the reason?
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These are different problems
Regional
too few tracks. So traffic jams
Here, a state capital where, in 1993, a new station was built in the middle of the Altmark region to accommodate long-distance traffic due to the dilapidated east-west tracks to Berlin. Traffic jams are a foreign concept. Of our 13 tracks, at most half are in regular use. They built our station, and they recently rebuilt the dilapidated bridges. But the track still only has a speed of 160 km/h. You rarely see an ICE here, and only on a detour.
Construction sites
The staff
Sickness among locomotive and train drivers and service personnel. Job refugees.
It's strange that the entire public transport system has to go on strike. Management should know that they'll only get new staff if they offer new conditions.
Then worldwide
passengers .
An IC train to Dresden stops in Leipzig. The ICE train is waiting on the same platform opposite. Re-stamping tickets isn't necessary. This continued for over half an hour, and was announced every five minutes, which was getting a bit annoying.
I was sitting two minutes later. Two 16- or 17-year-olds had lifted the heavy rehabilitation suitcase out of the way. Security guards had blocked the stairs. They were mercilessly overrun. Meanwhile, on the other side, they were clearing out the train. Then, one by one, the last sleepyheads—no, not true, cell phone junkies—crawled out.
And they complained that the train was full….
We drove out and the next ICE train arrived.
In the meantime, I had transferred the two of them as railway apprentices and we had a wonderful conversation, especially since I had once started a career changer training course to become a train driver.
Accidents
suicides
and all those who decide that a locomotive is perfect for… that the person sitting in the front who has to watch everything doesn't matter to them at all.
Please jump off the skyscraper.
If politicians invested even close to as much money in railways as, for example, in Switzerland, things would look different here. But Germans value highways more.
The infrastructure has been run down for decades and only functions thanks to the superhuman performance of the experienced and (still) motivated staff. But that will soon come to an end, because no one in management could have foreseen (/irony) that railway workers would also retire one day. But the money is still being squandered on projects like Stuttgart21 rather than providing for the next generation.
https://www.allianz-pro-schiene.de/presse/pressemitigungen/eu-ranking-deutschland-knausert-beim-schienennetz/
Railway workers used to be proud of their profession. Today, they're the nation's whipping boys and simply don't care anymore. In stark contrast to this are the exorbitant salaries of railway managers, who essentially view the company as a self-service store without being required to deliver any services.
Because the railway is still suffering from Mehdorn's stock market madness today. In the context of its unconditional capital market capability, DB AG has literally rationalized itself to death. Unfortunately, this ghost still haunts the railway today.
There are simply too many trains running, the routes are dilapidated and overloaded, and the CDU has driven this into the ground during its time.
We want to come back soon and therefore, no improvement is to be expected.
Deutsche Bahn was cut to pieces for its IPO.
Now the system is taking revenge.
The employees have reached their limits.
And the Christians who messed this up want to get back into power, so nothing will get better.
It was Gas Gerd from the Socialists who gave Määäähdorn the task of getting the railway ready for its IPO!
The state saves money (because it prefers to sponsor armaments) and the railway saves money (because its board members receive multi-million bonuses).
Nobody knows.
The German railway network is more complicated than the Internet.