Our regional public TV folks (HR) did a report this morning on public buses and trains since the Covid era started, and it's rather bad news.
The Hessen state situation on income from the bus/train business....is missing around half-a-billion Euro (roughly 650 million dollars).
Making this up? Well....you'd assume the state will take some of it's money.
But here's the dilemma.....the rest of 2021, all of 2022, 2023 and 2024? They are suggesting that the normalization business will NOT occur. So to keep the whole mess going at tip-top rate.....the state would have to throw in 300-plus million Euro a year? Yeah, that's the basic suggestion behind the whole story.
What really happened here? A lot of Germans (especially retirees like myself)....used to take frequent trips/excursions, and the train made it very simple (cheap rates were always possible). I would suggest some people have taken back to trips in the past couple of months, but this 'fear' is continually there.
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