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construction sites are a funny thing. At least with the Deutsche Bahn. Then the little mole comes into play, Max with first names. For 20 years, the fictional character traipsing with high visibility vest, hard hat and a not very smart look through posters, pamphlets and even comics that has commissioned the German railway. His mission: to customers declare that unfortunately has to be built again, that there is dirt and noise – and that usually also delayed trains.
In the coming years, Max will be intensely strained. Because the train starts “the greatest modernization campaign, which has seen the rail” as formulated Infrastructure Board Volker Kefer in Berlin on Monday.
28 billion euros to 2019 in the maintenance of bridges, tunnels , tracks, signal boxes and switches throughout the country flow. At peak times there could be 850 sites a day. This is essential, finally comes about every third bridge or from the imperial period. The result for the trains. You have to brake, detours or, in the worst case, replaced by buses
ten to twenty minutes extra travel time
Still, should according to the plan of the web possible hardly anyone experienced something of the many construction sites. “Customers are not interested in building should not notice as possible,” said Joerg Sandvoß responsible for the roadmap for the network subsidiary of the Group. How so? The work should optimally take place at night or on weekends – and where this does not go away, the schedule will be adjusted accordingly.
This means that the train is late, in principle, but if it is provided at the same time in the timetable more buffers, delayed it again not. Even with major surgery to the rail network of the award will fail but usually no more than ten to twenty minutes, insured Sandvoß. But at redirects it might be one hour now and then.
The web may suddenly verplanen so much money because she has a new contract with the federal government. The principle here is that the profits distributed by the company to the owner of the federal government, to be completely re-inserted into the infrastructure. In addition, the budget. Thanks to this so-called service and financing agreement, the web can maintain the network, regardless of budget shortages of the covenant, without first obtaining the approval of Parliament again and again. For the web to spend them wisely the money. This will be assessed on the basis of qualitative criteria – & lt; TH & gt; they are missed, the Group must pay millions penalties. The goal is to reduce the backlog of investment on the rail within two decades. Must apply
More patience train travelers, for example, at the closure of the north-south tunnel the train between mid-January and early May. In the summer, the mainline tracks to be shut down between Zoo and Friedrichstrasse temporarily. 850 million euros Bahn want to invest until 2019 in Berlin, which could be added there are further projects. The biggest chunk of the current fixed measures 3.3 billion euros, flows to Bavaria. With the origin of the Federal Minister of Transport have nothing to do, protested DB executive Kefer.
1700 new jobs
Also in other states are in extensive renovations. Opened in 2002, the ICE line from Cologne to Frankfurt am Main is completely blocked in the spring on four weekends in May, the fast line between Hanover and Göttingen. The routes Cologne-Aachen, Cologne-Siegen, Mannheim-Stuttgart, Nuremberg-Ansbach and Munich and Ingolstadt are affected. The state-owned enterprises must adjust 1,700 people to do the extra work on the infrastructure can, it said.
And then? The fresh billions are not at all mean that the trains no longer be delayed, said timetable expert Sandvoß. It was not an “On-time improvement program”. The network is rather a “continuum”. Looks like Max Mole would have to be still quite a long strain – unless the construction planner swing sometime on an ant or a beetle around. But then the sites could be even more unpopular.
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