Left Party executive Ates Gürpinar is a rail customer himself and is upset about unreliable trains. His party’s seven-point plan is intended to remedy the situation.
From the Left’s point of view, railway managers should no longer receive bonuses as long as less than 80 percent of trains are on time. A salary cap is necessary, demanded Left Party Federal Director Ates Gürpinar in a seven-point plan for a better railway. In it, he also calls for lower ticket prices for long-distance travel and six free trips a year on long-distance trains for holders of the 49-euro ticket.
Other points of the Left’s “Railway Reform 2.0”: more investment in rail and vehicle expansion and a long-term plan for this; conversion of the railway from a stock corporation into a public company with a non-profit statute; more say and good working conditions for employees.
From the Left’s perspective, the restructuring and expansion of the railway should be financed by cutting subsidies for company cars and for kerosene and diesel. Gürpinar also reiterated the demand for the abolition of the debt brake and for higher taxes on the rich.
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Source: Stern
