Germany, like America, is operated by and for the benefit of car companies. Their infrastructure difficulties share root causes with America's.

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general1726 7 days ago | parent [-]

Or there is a sane explanation - People drive cars -> People push their politicians to improve road infrastructure -> less money for other infrastructure -> trains are underfunded -> trains and tracks are having maintenance issues a reliability starts to fall apart -> people drive cars even more.

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jeffbee 7 days ago | parent | next [-]

While I agree that fundamentally the issue is that Germans spend more on cars than any other European population (but nowhere near as much as Americans), there is also the detail that a large share of VWAG is owned by a German state.

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DemocracyFTW2 7 days ago | parent | prev [-]

if you judge driving cars as 'sane', sure; I don't

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general1726 7 days ago | parent [-]

I am just opposed to "big auto" idea being responsible for lack of investments in train network.

	▲	DemocracyFTW2 6 days ago \| parent [-]
		it's exactly this