A year after 2021 summer floods: DB still carries out reconstruction works
Kaller Tunnel after the floods. Source: Deutsche Bahn.
Deutsche Bahn still cannot run 15 per cent of its routes in the areas damaged by the massive July 2021 floods. It will take another two years to reopen all the affected routes in their entirety.
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Regrettably, it seems, DB did “miss the train”.
(Alternatively, with 15% of DB routes…, timely upgraded should have been the Boost.)
Acc. Goal, existing infrastructure, before 2030, shall prove upgraded, to, or above, 150% of current, capacity and utilisation…
For sake of railways, for all, any reinvestment, now shall be taken advantage of – for the Shift – the needed.
(Low price railway infrastructure has turned high cost – and quality pays.) 32,5 ton, safely allowed, now is min., etc.