Surely not the Greens, who regrettably have been sold the idea that privatisation solves every problem of rail years ago. Whether it influences voters may depend on how much noise a citizens' initiative will make. And not all is lost: the city government bypassed the city parliament in launching the tendering, but it cannot bypass it in the granting of the money to the tender winner, which one can expect to be up for vote in 2014. Though, that may be too long a time for the current Berlin SPD majority to survive...

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