Because your trains are so late, you must pay the railway, apparently a penalty payment in the amount of 500 million euros to the regional transport associations. The daily mirror reported. The state of the group a lot of money is missing anyway – the penalty would worsen the position of the rail. the
The German railway has to pay the regional traffic, high penalties, because their trains are late or even fail. Since 2017, the criminal should have payments on almost 500 million euros summed up. The daily mirror reported, citing internal documents of the state group. The railway does not want to comment on the report yet.
The high penalty would be the state of the group hard. In order to be in the future, reliable and punctual, must invest the Deutsche Bahn massively in its rail network. Five billion euros will flow in the next five years in personnel, vehicles and the rail network. The Problem: The billions she has. From the Supervisory Board circles, it was the last, only a billion Euro of which was funded. How do the other billion will come from is open.
the liabilities of the group: The train is already sitting on a debt mountain of nearly € 20 billion. That the Federal government is to fill in with the other billion, is currently considered to be unlikely. A penalty payment in the amount of half a billion Euro would worsen the situation of the group.
the regional transport associations, the order in the order of the countries, regional trains and S-Bahn, withheld money from the railway, is not a novelty. If the rail division, DB Regio was not able to deliver due to strikes, bad weather and other problems, the full performance of agreed services, they may impose penalties. It is regulated in the contracts with the Contracting authorities of the Länder and the local authorities. In previous years, the railway had to already make criminal payments in the regional traffic. The sum of these penalties, however, increased significantly: From 2013 to 2015, the railway had to pay about 200 million euros in annual penalties.
