Construction costs are currently skyrocketing

That was politically intended, because why else would you put people from the automotive industry / lobby in railway management for decades? Any more questions, Mr. Kienzle ... Germany is and will remain (for a few more years) a car country. You can see it in the heated discussions about the speed limit.

And now quite "objectively" on this: we couldn't implement it so far because we didn't have suitable signs and they probably wouldn't be procurable (quote from the Berliner Zeitung: "According to Transport Minister Wissing (FDP), a speed limit would already fail due to the lack of enough traffic signs.") :eek: :eek:

I'll wait a bit longer and then grieve when the German automotive industry has abolished itself. What a pity ...

You only need signs at the borders for the guests and must remove all signs that say more than 130

No, it was not politically intended. It simply became unprofitable to store about 3 wagons somewhere and pick them up at some point. On top of that, the logistics: here for Frankfurt, here for Hamburg, and over there for the plant in Klecksdorf. Klecksdorf is loaded, damn, it’s at the very back, the others have to go first. Then the small branch lines on private land were shut down, everything was transported by truck to the next major station and loaded. Unprofitable, by the time the stuff is transferred, you might as well drive straight to the destination and hooray, just-in-time for small quantities is possible. That was a process long before privatization.

(do I always have to write that when I mean something ironically or does the discerning reader figure that out themselves?)

Actually not. But I took the quote from the newspaper seriously and not as a Postillion article.