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Re:More and more German trains are not allowed to enter Swit... by snowpid on Thursday August 08, 2024 @07:39AM (#41190411)
Besides the point that Deutsche Bahn is goverment owned, it is worth pointing out that Western and Eastern German had " to crumbling infrastructure, an insurmountable hardware and technical debt and now to the most complex train system probably in the world. " + much much debts.

Calling the Deutsche Bahn private is a very good indicator that the person isn't able to look up Wikipedia Article and think critically.

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Re:More and more German trains are not allowed to enter Swit... by notTooFarGone on Thursday August 08, 2024 @07:46AM (#41190463)
The process was called Bahnprivatisierung.

See Wikipedia article here. https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bahnprivatisierung

Translating that to english is train privatization. Does this lead to a privately OWNED company? I never said that. The decision to privatize and to make austerity measures instead of investments shows today. In the past 30 years the streets were more important for governments and it shows.

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Re:More and more German trains are not allowed to enter Swit... by snowpid on Thursday August 08, 2024 @07:54AM (#41190508)
It is important to click one more on the header on Wikipedia. https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privatisierung and this is refers to my POV.

In German private means privately owned. It is rare that people out of Germany care about the legal status of Deutsche Bahn thus I used the German meanings and many posters as well.

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Re:More and more German trains are not allowed to enter Swit... by snowpid on Thursday August 08, 2024 @07:57AM (#41190532)
" o make austerity measures instead of investments shows today. In the past 30 years the streets were more important for governments and it shows. " I refer to the time before 30 years. It was a very problematic time in West and East Germany though were a Goverment Agency by legal.
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