It feels like the German railroad system is being actively sabotaged with bureaucratic obstacles and legislative nonsense, like lobbyists are actively lining the pockets of politicians to make the Deutsche Bahn (German Rail) worse.
On top of that the statements of politicians, promising to make the trains come on time by 2070(!), it feels like they are not even trying to do stuff. Now Merz said the 58€ ticket (which was already raised from 49) should cost 90€ because it “costs the state too much”.
When I look at chinese railroads, what type of rail infrastucture they can build in 10-15 years, I wonder what is going on in Germany.
I had this idea since corruption is basically legal, masked as lobbyism and because german bureaucracy is basically one of the worst in the whole of Europe if you ask me. Do you think this is too far fetched or could this actually be the case? And are you able to find some sources?
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It is either being sabotaged or criminally neglected. Either way the objective result is the same which is the severe decay of the rail transport system that anyone who lives in Germany can and likely has at some point experienced first hand. To deny that this is happening would simply be gaslighting.
Its no conspiracy theory. You can absolutely prove their intent. The idea is to privatize all transportation (and all infrastructure and basic needs). To do that the people need some convincing since bahn is partially state owned. That of course needs to change. Otherwise profit wont go as high and regulations for passenger safety cant be avoided as easily.
Okay thank you, so I’m not hallucinating. Do you have any idea where I could find evidence on this? I can’t really find any sources exposing this, I want to collect evidence. When I search for “DB sabotage” the only thing that comes up are some fear-articles about supposed future cyberattacks on critical infrastructure.
I think it could be useful in the future. Where could I start the research?
If you can read german: https://www.nachdenkseiten.de/ has articles from time to time regarding the Bahn. Some interesting links should come up.
In my opinion, the modus operandi of these people (lobbyist politicians) is always the same. Defund, destabilize and disable.
You can look at the legislation and apply normal due diligence. Iirc they are also disabling parts of the railway network. You can check the CCCs work on this. They have large groups of people working on this. https://media.ccc.de/ is pretty good for cold analysis of technical stuff. They also unveiled the sabotage of the polish train system.
Trump is doing these things more openly now but I’ll bet anything you can find the pattern, just not as easy.
Furthermore, train infrastructure stands in opposition to car infrastructure. If everything is transported by rail, who needs all those cars to get shit from a to b? Same with private mobility, if a reliable train net would exist, people would be less reliant on cars.
The car industry is one of the ruling factions of germany.
Absolutely. Germany also has huge assets in the car industry. VW, one of the worst offenders ans whose chairmen were recently sentenced to jail for their own mass murder (through exhaust fume manipulation) and still got off easy.
Jup, the car industry is oil golden cow here in germany.
Nah, you’re spot on. It’s been a thing for many years now to sabotage the Bahn in favor of our automobile industry. It got so brazen that most designated heads of the Bahn were from that industry.
