>>1983673>Why the fuck does DB even exist anymore?Because infrastructure (at scale) is almost necessarily operated at a loss. No private operator would ever consider running a dense whole-nation railway network in Germany like DB.
>I'd say we just close it down, or sell it for a symbolic 1€ or something, because it's just a farce.Even if you paid billions on top of giving DB away for free, no private entity would ever consider taking it - especially due to DB Infrago.
At the same time it doesn't particularly help DB, that politicians keep intervening at every single corner, but without politicians agreeing to finance DB, DB can't operate, so it's not like there was an option.
>Not only does it generally not work, even when it works normally, but GDL is just the icing on the cake.The ultimate solution will be to take the engine drivers out of the equation. There is no sugar coating this and they only got themselves to blame.
>And why is the owner of DB (the fucking german state) not stepping in and putting an end to this shitshow?They aren't allowed to change law just to fix the GDL-issue.
It would require a well-phrased generalized solution.
And looking at the current government, I'm not confident, their guys are capable of pulling that one off.
>As said, just sell the whole company to whoever is willing to take it. Can't get any worse.Literally no one is willing to take it. If anyone did, he clearly would have no idea what he is doing, and the result would be worse than what we have.
>Hell, ripping out the tracks and putting highways in instead would be an improvement, even a gridlocked highway has a higher transport capacity and reliability than DB.No, it would mean a significantly lower capacity at useful speeds with massively higher costs. No matter the mode of transport: In general the lower the speed, the higher the capacity, but that's not what you want.
