The state-owned company wants to rehabilitate the ailing network – it is now clear how it will at least partially finance it. It will probably be a long time before rail customers are happy too.
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Kassian Stroh, Berlin
The head of Deutsche Bahn also had a few good numbers with him. One of them: This year, his group is expecting “significantly more than 150 million travelers in long-distance traffic,” Richard Lutz announced on Thursday. That would be a new record, and the long-term growth interrupted by a deep corona dip would continue. What is unfortunate for these many people, however, is that they will have to be prepared for the fact that many trains will continue to arrive late. If it were only a quarter, Lutz would probably be happy. For this year, Deutsche Bahn is aiming for a punctuality value of “well above 70 percent,” he said at the balance sheet press conference. In the past year, this value had plummeted: to 65.2 percent.