On 01/01/2012 19:45, Wolfgang Schwanke wrote:
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On 01/01/2012 17:58, Wolfgang Schwanke wrote:
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Failures in 2009/2010 were caused by lack of maintenance, leading
to shortages in rolling stock. The ultimate cause was the closedown
of a vital workshop due to company policy of channeling money to
the owner company as profits. It remains to be seen if the latest
failure can be ascribed to the same cause.

So, would you say that things on the Berlin S-Bahn are better now or
during the DDR era, when Deutsche Reichsbahn was operating that
system?

Are you Lüko's twin? That's a silly question.

I'm asking purely out of curiosity -- no other reason.

I'll try to reanswer with perspective. You're asking me if the downsides
of communism and the cold war era were worse than the downsides of the
privatisation era. I can't really make up my mind .

No, I was just wondering if operations on the Berlin S-Bahn were
generally better or worse when Deutsche Reichsbahn was operating the
service, all politics aside.