[codemusings]

Now could Deutsche Bahn please also invest in some actual infrastructure, trains and make them go on time?

That‘d be great! Thanks.

[flohofwoe]

> Now could Deutsche Bahn please also invest in some actual infrastructure

The main "problem" currently is not that they modernise too little, but too much.

For the last 5 years or so, during the summer months I need to add one or two hours to nearly all my connections because of construction work that slowly seems to move from cities into the rural regions (I'm not complaining though, no matter what the Bahn does, travellers will be affected one way or another, and I bet most of the delays you are seeing are caused by construction work somewhere at the 'leaf nodes' of the network).

Of course a couple of decades of the "kaputtsparen" mentality didn't help, it would obviously have been better to spread out the required maintenance work and modernization over those decades of infrastructure negligence.

[codemusings]

Yes that’s why track redundancies are important. And not just for construction. Local and Intercity connections would benefit as well.

[locallost]

Deutsche Bahn pays for the usage of the infrastructure just like any other company using it (e.g. Flix or any of the regional carriers). The infrastructure is the responsibility of DV InfraGO (formerly DB Netz).

[codemusings]

What are you talking about? DB Infrago is a subsidiary of DB and is as such governed by the board. The fact that they are separate entities has purely corporate legal reasons.

[eigenspace]

In the article they say that one of their main motivations for this is that they hope it will speed up the approval times for train routes, because it'll lessen the noise and visual complaints.