German Railways Are so Unreliable that Politicians Call Them a Threat to Democracy, and Passengers Are Betting on Train Delays. German Authorities Are Ready to Spend 100 Billion Euros to Fix This

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Germany has the largest railway network in all of Europe. But they are outdated and overloaded, which is why trains are often delayed and canceled. Even he himself ironized the lack of punctuality of Deutsche Bahn, the country's main railway carrier. But the German authorities have no time to joke: the Minister of Transport believes that the state of the railways is a threat to democracy, because citizens are losing faith in the state's ability …