There was a big public outcry when that new pricing was presented and introcduced, and it is still problematic after some improvements. But we are now in the era of non-railway railway managers who look for maximised profits not passenger numbers, no surprises here... (Current DB CEO Hartmut Mehdorn was earlier manager for a press-making company and an aerospace company, and sat in the board of software giant SAP and energy giant RWE.)

_{*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.}