On February 12, starting extensive modernization of Deutsche Bahn between Singen and Schaffhausen. Commuters from the circle Waldshut need from March three times for long on the way to work.
Monika Mayer could not believe her eyes when she last few days has called on the online information of the Deutsche Bahn. “I thought you want to kidding me,” she says. The reason for their displeasure: For its pendulum-distance from home singing to Work Waldshut they should require from the end of March just under three hours instead of the usual 39 minutes. Ultimately, it is about one and a half hours, but it was clear only later. As of Friday, 12 February renewed the web to November the distance between Konstanz and Schaffhausen (see chart).
commuters between Hegau and Hochrhein as Monika Mayer are mainly from the fourth phase occurring between 30 March and May 12 affected. Dirk Andres, Subnet Manager at Deutsche Bahn for this section, admits: “This stage is really hard for the passengers because moves between Thayngen and singing no train since both available tracks will be blocked.” The fact that the way to work out Monika Mayer’s vision seemed, however, to accept the absurd, he calls “a misunderstanding that owes much art”
Mayer estimates actually the journey by train. shortly after 6 am it rises in singing to, 39 minutes later in Waldshut again. For comparison: By car you need this more than an hour. Many others do likewise. Only between 6 and 7.30 am, according to estimates Dirk Andres’ up to 45 commuters on the Hochrhein go.
“The route that it indicated to me at first, made my way to work simply impossible”, indignant Monika Mayer. From singing led them the information by bus to Stein am Rhein. Two minutes later by train to Schaffhausen, from where it eventually goes by train to Waldshut. Arrival: 8:41 instead of 6:39. In order to be on time at work, had Mayer and their passengers in singing to alternatively rise at 4.45 am in the bus.
If you sit together daily on the train, people know each other. Mayer made among their fellow commuters mobile, phoned and wrote emails. “It is not that I have no understanding of track renewal, ultimately this is about our security,” she says. This also provides the state chairman of the passenger association Pro Bahn, Stefan Buhl, as stating, “. It is difficult to assess whether it would modernize else can solve, at a full closure is complicated”
Dirk Andres has the numerous angry emails of commuters believed. He attested Monika Mayer great efforts to bring in those fourth construction phase a replacement bus on the legs. That it ever came to flood of complaints in his e-mail inbox, is, according to Andres at a software, not to an organizational problem. “It always takes until the replacement bus service is also fed into the online timetable information,” he explains. Stefan Buhl of Pro Bahn is skeptical: “It is hard to imagine that the road map on the Internet is not technically represent an early stage.” He suspects rather that not all buses and trains and at the same time were organized. Leonie Seger man, spokeswoman for the charge of the software company HaCon, announced: “.Grundsätzlich all stored data can be used to connect computing. That building sites early as possible, the actual drive is available but only later, is a quite common practice. “
Monika Mayer is satisfied in the meantime. “I can use the one and a half instead of feared three hours live.” So is the current state. Because Dirk Andres makes their hopes of further time savings. A morning express bus from Singen to Thayngen, from where it can go on the train to Waldshut, is in view. Dirk Andres on demand this newspaper: “As of 16 February, will then be visible on the Internet.”
The Upper Rhine Railway concern of the nine modernization phases by the end of the first four. In changing sections each have a track is locked in the first three (12 to 22 February, 24 February to 8 March and 14 to 29 March). Too drastic restrictions in railway traffic occurs in the fourth construction phase (30 March to 12 May), because then both will be blocked tracks. Then cover, inter alia, the InterCity trains from Stuttgart via Singen to Zurich and be replaced by an express bus.
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