Monopoly commission: separate Deutsche Bahn’s infrastructure from operation
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The current structure of Deutsche Bahn group is not appropriate for the planned increase of capital with 7.5 billion in favour of DB, says the German monopolies commission. It cannot be guaranteed that this will only benefit the infrastructure and not DB’s operations.
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Penalizing longer trains will reduce the main strength of freight trains. Us experience show that it is the key success factor. Already penalized by a lower priority than passenger trains freight trains will lose their main opportunity to compete with road and the wished European modal shift will suffer.Frequency will come with volume increase. Reliability and cost are key factors and a major move from MS governments and EU would be to share the network capacity between Freight and Passengers.
The DB – Netz AG is a sister company of the DB AG. Investment into the DB – Netz AG for infrastructure cannot easily be used elsewhere in the parent company. Therefore these concerns are unfounded and wrong!!