Berlin S-Bahn split to go ahead - Railway Gazette

GERMANY: Meeting on June 19, the Berlin Senate voted to push ahead with controversial proposals to split the city's S-Bahn network into three separate businesses in order to introduce competition when tendering the next round of operating concessions.

Bids are expected to be called later this month for a 15-year concession, which will start when DB Regio's current contract ends in 2017.

The Senate backed the proposal put forward by Michael Müller, the SDP Senator responsible for Urban Development, even though the city's parliament had favoured awarding a single €3bn concession to run the 331 km S-Bahn network...

The message of the Berlin SPD leadership to party base: fuck you. (Again, that Michael Müller was just booted from the position of Berlin SPD chairman.)

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One whose delusions are out of fashion.}