Two years ago, it could not go Rüdiger Grube fast enough. More than 1,000 railway bridges in Germany were broken and needed to be renewed urgently, warned the head of Deutsche Bahn. His engineers were ready to every year to rehabilitate up to 250 bridges in the country. By the end of the decade, the problem could be largely resolved. The federal government would only finally provide the necessary billions for it.
Grube then apparently promised too much. Although the federal government now puts billions into upgrading the rail network, the urgent rehabilitation of bridges remains sluggish. This is clear from the response of the Federal Government to an inquiry of the Greens, the present ZEIT ONLINE. Accordingly, the web so far this year plans to renew only 78 bridges (see map). This is even less than last year, as the train managed at least 123 bridges. And it is much less than that promised by pit number of 250.
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the years repeated argument of the web that the rehabilitation of the rail network fails alone missing state funds, has proved to be false. Indeed, the German government has never invested so much money to rehabilitate the rail network.
applies since the beginning of 2015, the new so-called service and financing agreement (LuFV), in which the federal government and the railway agreed for the years 2015 to 2019 on a billion deal have. The train invested in this period 1.6 billion euros in the rail network, the federal government sees an average of 3.9 billion euros per year. With part of the money and 875 of the total 1,148 heavily dilapidated bridges to be repaired. It is the largest modernization program in the history of Deutsche Bahn.
This Bahnbrücken to 2016 be rehabilitated
but why even fewer bridges are now rehabilitated – though billions flow into the rail network?
The railway argues that the current list of 78 bridges is only temporary. During the year, more projects would be added. However, it is also in the web does not assume that you will achieve in this and next year, promised by pit number of 250 bridges. One reason may be the long-running approval process. “There is often a huge advance,” says Michael Baufeld, a spokesman for the railway. “The building of bridges is something else to produce a popsicle.” If you believe the web, the program starts slowly and will accelerate in the coming years. In 2018 and 2019, then up to 500 bridges would be repaired.
The ground-policy spokesman of the Greens, Matthias Gastel, however, suspects otherwise. The train coming with their planning just not progressing fast enough. “The Deutsche Bahn currently missing simply the staff and planning capabilities to also obstruct the orderly billionaire investment,” says Gastel. The Green Party therefore believes that the promised bridge renovations are up to 2019 not to provide.
It is certain now: For passengers, the slow restoration will have consequences. Because the web will fix most of the bridges within two years, it will come in this time to more sites on the routes. “This is all for the passenger ugly because his schedules are unreliable, if only because he missed important connections,” says Gastel. According to the Greens that could have been prevented if the train would have been earlier prepared for the refurbishment backlog. “It’s not propaganda of the open, but the Federal Network Agency, the train certifies a poor site management.”
In this state of Germany are railway bridges
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