• taladar@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    Last I checked there were also some important connections that had been damaged by trucks this year, e.g. the one in Frankfurt between the south and the main station.

  • Microw@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    It’s not just the railway. Munich Airport canceled all flights because of an ice storm. Roads throughout Bavaria are blocked due to fallen trees as well as snow/ice that hasn’t been removed yet.

    Bavaria’s infrastructure as a whole clearly isnt prepared to deal with such weather events.

  • Krzd@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    It’s because after privatization the DB (Deutsche Bahn) figured out that neglecting their infrastructure until it causes a crisis, causing the government to step in and pay for repairs is much cheaper (for them) than maintaining it properly in the first place.
    Seriously, fuck the DB.

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      11 months ago

      Are you seriously arguing that infrastructure shouldn’t be privatised while usage of said infrastructure could very well be?

      Butterfly meme: is this socialism?

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      11 months ago

      Fuck the idiots that had the idea that the DB should be run like a private profitoriented company. Nurture, embrace, rebuild and improve the DB.

      • Opafi@feddit.de
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        11 months ago

        But the first few people that could say that their quaterly numbers were so much better argued that their quaterly numbers were so much better! How could you argue with capitalism?