Being a victim (some say: customer) of the Deutsche Bahn (with bahn.comfort black status): I sincerely believe they can not. After 40 years of ignoring maintenance, never setting up the East-German rail system for success, I honestly believe the system is broken beyond repair. What is indicative of that is that they believe they can make the Deutschlandtakt work by (no typo!) 2070.
There was a time when there was no railway and a time were we had a good railway. That is not out-of-reach, but it is mostly a political problem, not a technical one.
Unfortunately, they realistically cannot. Basically every major infrastructure project gets loads of local opposition which would require substantial political will. However, the currently elected government is the government that let the rail infrastructure get that bad in the first place
DocTomoe|4 months ago
We get what we have, and that's it.
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YeahThisIsMe|4 months ago
Rail is a lost cause in Germany.
shafyy|4 months ago
That does not mean that we shouldn't invest more money into improving it. But I would not count it as a lost cause.
Hopefully, when the current government is replaced by a more progressive one at some point (let a man dream), we see more political will.
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