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Reactivation of passenger services on "Tecklenburger Nordbahn" railroad in northwestern Germany is currently being discussed.
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>railroad has only seen freight trains since 1967
>currently only in the off-hours because the relevant track in Rheine train station is reserved for RE 7 passenger train
>busses between Recke, Westerkappeln and Osnabrück are overburdened
>they want to send a DMU down each direction every 30 minutes
>liberals and NIMBYs in Lotte, Büren and Wersen are against it
>somehow the calculated cost-benefit ratio of 1.12 is not valid
A whopping 900 signatures against the reactivation have been collected.
Top arguments include:
>"regional trains are too fast and come too often. My house is gonna slide down into a hole in the ground. I have to refill topsoil every summer as is"
>"passengers will be able to see what we have for lunch"
>"if they relocated the tracks three meters to the other direction, nobody would have a problem with them"
>"glasses will fall from the cupboards"
>"property values will drop 40%"
>"my son will not be able to sell my house"
>"kids late to school will charge through the gates into oncoming trains at the crossing"
>"train between one-horse towns"
>"busses are better because they stop more often"
>"I will not use the train, I'd rather go on foot. All my neighbors are complaining as well"
The article does nothing but quote NIMBY opinions and leaves them uncontested.
