N-TV brought up an interesting topic this morning....the Bahn folks (the national railway of Germany) are under serious pressure to reach a normal state of operations. Part of the worry from the public is over hygiene and the threat of getting the Coronavirus.
Nationally, the Bahn folks have hired a minimum of 2,000 employees to sanitize and clear stations and trains. All of this amounts to a higher cost level for the Bahn to operate.
What the Bahn says is that on the long-distance trains (the ICE)....they have several hundred additional folks who are 'on-the-go' type cleaners within the interior of the trains. They admit that it'll get up to six-hundred folks shortly.
The question is....can you convince the German public to go and travel by train again. For those who live 30 to 50 km away and need the train-access, there is no choice. But for those who used to travel on weekends or take an occasional sight-seeing trip....the question now arises over the risk of the virus.
How long will the increased hygiene effort continue? Unknown. Cost factor for increased tickets in the next year? I'd probably suggest some 2-percent rise is going to occur.
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