Delays, failures: The performance of Deutsche Bahn have hardly been on rails for years. Ex-federal Chancellor, ex-Oöbb boss and now rail manager Christian Kern also spoke with the misery. A ride across the border is like a trip to the “wild prairie”.
Kern sees a leadership problem with the DB in conversation with the German “Zeit” (Thursday edition). “There are too many levels at Deutsche Bahn, too many managers walking through the area, plus a number of management consultants. It will never be like that, “Kern emphasized.
It was not until Tuesday that ÖBB -Baas Andreas Matthä meant the neighbor’s difficulties at a press conference: “In Germany there is no freight train on time.” Freight trains in Germany. Despite all the criticism of Deutsche Bahn, Kern was protected his boss Richard Lutz: “Lutz is an excellent man. Knowing, he deserves trust. “
Core requires “announcements from above”
For Kern, head of the Austrian Federal Railways from 2010 to 2016, the Deutsche Bahn needs “Announcements from above” and a financing, regardless of the election results. The requirement of politics that Deutsche Bahn has to earn considers Kern as “the greatest life test of the railways”. The railway infrastructure is common goods and state task. “You have to say goodbye that you will someday make a real win,” he said.
“Family member is constantly lost in the vastness of the db”
The poor condition of the DB Damage to his company-the former Chancellor is the director of the Vienna European Locomotive Leasing (Ell) and also private. “A family member is constantly lost in the vastness of the German rail network to the least,” describes the ex-politician of the Republic of Austria’s “care folding”.
Although he has also developed sporting access. “Yes, you know, we in Austria fluctuate between self -transfer and the inferiority complex towards the big neighbor, and if something goes much better with us, then there is a sporting joy,” said Kern compared to the “time”.
Of the sewing cabinet of party politics
And he talked from the sewing cabinet from his time as a train manager in Vienna when he halved the management. I remember that shortly after the start I called the group leader of the ÖVP and said to him: ‘I now throw away 15 people who have been assigned to the conservatives. Of course he didn’t agree, “said the former Spö Chancellor. His answer was: “We are welcome to discuss this on a stage for the public. I will then explain why I think these people are unsuitable for his plush toys, who are unsuitable and only hinder the store. After an hour his resistance had disappeared. I threw out people. “
However, he also had similar conflicts with his party, the Spö. “Party friends and the council council cooked when I put social -democratic people out the door. In such a crisis you have to use the power of the new beginning, “Kern looked back.
“There is only leather pants, no laptop”
Kern also finds critical words around trainrip to Germany. “If you drive from Austria across the German border in Salzburg, then it is as if you are coming from Silicon Valley to the wild prairie, there is only leather pants, no laptop.” Internet along many German railway lines has expired.
Austria is much better here. “With the ÖBB, for example, we always guarantee funds for six years, so not only for a legislative period, and almost three times as much per citizen is invested in the rail. The Germans focus much more on the debt, “said Kern.
Source: Krone
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