On Sun, 1 Jan 2012 14:49:10 +0000 (UTC), Hans-Joachim Zierke
wrote:


Oliver Schnell schrieb:


Please name /any/ foreign investment of DB, which shows a decent ROI.

I have no idea, but this is irrelevant, concerning where the money comes
from.

I think the highest profit margin is achieved in Brandenburg, where all
the traffic went to DB Regio without bidding, and a short while later, DB
gave a nice advisor job to the former transport minister of Brandenburg,
in charge during that decisionmaking.
So the money comes from you, the taxpayer, paid into a corruption scheme,
then used to fulfill manager's dreams of a transport empire.

I'm not against managers trying to build a transport empire, but please,
with legitimate means, asking investors for the money, instead of purging
it from the taxpayers in the grey zone of "as long as we aren't
prosecuted and go into prison, our ways are fine".


We didn't get lower fares or more comfort.

Wochenendticket and Ländertickets meanwhile exist for quite a while

...and might lower the costs for 10% of ones journeys. This doesn't
balance the fare rises.

Without doubt, they have done a useful job of filling empty trains,
though, and admittedly, they really bring down travel costs for the
retired.



and
rotten Silberlinge are out of service or revamped (for the few remaining).

While they have been replaced by better stock at some places, examples
would be Eurobahn FLIRTs or the FLIRTs of DB in Rostock service, there
are also several hundred 425, which are considerably worse than a rotten
Silberling.

Is the problem with the 425 series the seating (or seating
arrangement)? Would it be feasible to change the seating during a
major overhaul and eliminate the problem? If the problems are
elsewhere, are they fixable during a major overhaul at reasonable
cost?

Clark Morris
So I don't see progress at the bottom line.


Hans-Joachim