I sat and watched the early morning commercial German news and they had this piece on.....talking about the national issue of railway problems.
If you've looked around Germany since the early 1990s....a lot of tracks were 'turned-off' (discarded) because of the strategy ahead. Most of the tracks simply remain there....unused.
So there is this chatter of activating (renovating) 3,000 kilometers (1,865 miles) of the retired tracks. Chief reason? Well, the demand for more passengers and lesser car usage....leads to higher demands. Two groups have surveyed this idea (outside of the Bahn circles) and they say around 180 sections of track can be brought back online. Some of them are just a kilometer long.....some are up to sixty kilometers long.
Renovation costs? Well....no one says much over that and the Bahn would have to approach their financial plan and probably find another billion or two....to fund this idea.
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