The at best friendly reminder that masks are still compulsory on the ICE was just as much a part of the conductor’s announcement during the pandemic as the obligatory thank you for the journey with Deutsche Bahn. Now it is passé: This Thursday, the nationwide obligation to wear a corona protective mask on long-distance trains will no longer apply. In local public transport, passengers in Berlin, Brandenburg and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania can now decide for themselves whether they want to get...
comment by Dominik FurstThe obligation to wear a mask, one of the last major measures in the fight against the corona virus, also falls on long-distance trains and buses this Thursday. It's an encouraging development. It manifests the end of the pandemic that has restricted and dominated our lives for three years. Responsibility and risk assessment are now back with each and every individual because society is largely in agreement that they no longer want to live in fear of...
In some districts of Hamburg, it has long been possible to use an app to order something that should be commonplace for millions of people in Germany in a few years: a local transport shuttle that picks up passengers at home or at a bus stop. In this way, the passengers of the HVV transport association can be taken to their destination, for example to the nearest train station, and not at the cost of a taxi, but at a...
In some districts of Hamburg, it has long been possible to use an app to order something that should be commonplace for millions of people in Germany in a few years: a local transport shuttle that picks up passengers at home or at a bus stop. In this way, the passengers of the HVV transport association can be taken to their destination, for example to the nearest train station, and not at the cost of a taxi, but at a...
Two people were killed and seven others injured in a knife attack on a regional train in Schleswig-Holstein. The police confirmed this in the evening. In addition, the alleged perpetrator, who has since been arrested, was "moderately injured," as a police spokeswoman for the SZ said. Nothing can be said about the identity of the victims at this time.How the deed wentThe incident happened in the afternoon on the regional express that runs between Kiel and Hamburg. The first alarm...
Two people were killed and seven others injured in a knife attack on a regional train in Schleswig-Holstein. The police confirmed this in the evening. In addition, the alleged perpetrator, who has since been arrested, was "moderately injured," as a police spokeswoman for the SZ said.How the deed wentThe incident happened in the afternoon on the RE 70 regional express, which runs between Kiel and Hamburg. The first alarm from one of the passengers was received by the police at...
Two people were killed and five injured in a knife attack on a regional train from Kiel to Hamburg. The Interior Minister of Schleswig-Holstein, Sabine Sütterlin-Waack, told the German Press Agency.The incident happened just before 3 p.m. A man attacked passengers on the train with a knife, said a spokesman for the federal police. As the Write Lübeck news is the regional express RE7, which runs between Flensburg and Hamburg. The train came to an unscheduled standstill in the station...
A few days ago, a burning locomotive rolled towards the city of Freilassing without a driver. The sensational incident was not the first of its kind involving vehicles of this series. source site
Until a few days ago, Volker Wissing was optimistic about his prestige project. The start date of the nationwide 49-euro ticket, which was actually planned for the beginning of the year, which has been postponed several times, is now finally fixed, the Federal Minister of Transport, who was involved, made clear ten days ago at the exam of the FDP parliamentary group in Bavaria. It is clear to him that the ticket will not come later than May 1st, said...
Passengers and the environment would benefit from more electrified rail lines. But Germany is only making tiny steps forward here. Why actually? source site
