The railway built billion

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The railway built billion

Travelers of the Deutsche Bahn must be in this year on delays. Reason is the comprehensive redevelopment of the route network. For around 5.5 billion euros will be spent.

The are almost 200 million euros more than last year, as the company in Berlin has communicated. A total of 2016 around 3200 Schienenkilometer, 2000 Soft, and about 150 bridges repaired or replaced. The measures are part of the most comprehensive revitalization program in the railway history. This are by 2019, about 28 billion euros, of which 11.4 billion from the Bahneigentümer waistband. With a length of 61,000 are kilometers of Deutsche Bahn over the largest rail network in Europe.

“I expect that the train is our means of quickly and carefully into the existing network investments and especially the Sanierungsstau at the bridges broken down,” said German transport Minister Alexander Dobrindt (CSU) in this context. With the program, ensures the train is primarily to ensure that in the years of under-funding of accrued renovation need not continue to grow.

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Construction sites should be merged

“We want for our passengers and freight customers, of course, as little restrictions as possible,” said DB network management Board Thomas Schaffer, at the presentation of the plans. This was reinforced in the night built. In addition, the 850 planned construction projects nationwide 76 larger Complex to be summarized to multiple Vollsperrungen on the same route to avoid. Delays caused by construction sites are caused, should also be reduced. Moreover, would the construction sites early in the schedule incorporated in order to avoid Surprises, said Schaffer.

One of the biggest railway construction projects this year is the integration of the high-speed railway line Erfurt-Nuremberg in the rail network. There is, therefore, to a 34-week total closure until the beginning of September. With multiple closures, rehabilitated the railway also, the routes Munich-Rosenheim-Salzburg and Rosenheim-Kufstein. Also on the high-speed rail Hamburg-Hanover-Göttingen by the beginning of may until September, gradually Soft and the track renewed.

Train under pressure

The Deutsche Bahn has been stuck for some time in crisis: competition from The Fernbussen and airlines, the company. In addition, the cheap price of Oil, driving a car attractive. Also in the freight transport business is going bad. As it Konzernkreisen means that the company has in the last year since a long time back a loss to be retracted.

To the investment in the infrastructure to be able to pay, considering the train now investments to sell. Among other things, shares of the logistics subsidiary DB Schenker is to be sold. In addition, the customers through a quality and Pünktlichkeitsoffensive back again.

fro/hb (dpa, rtr,afp)