{"id":205431,"date":"2025-08-16T17:56:44","date_gmt":"2025-08-16T15:56:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.voyages-d-affaires.com\/?p=205431"},"modified":"2025-08-16T17:56:45","modified_gmt":"2025-08-16T15:56:45","slug":"deutsche-bahn-richard-lutz-train-punctuality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.voyages-d-affaires.com\/en\/deutsche-bahn-richard-lutz-train-punctuality","title":{"rendered":"Deutsche Bahn boss sacked for lack of train punctuality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Richard Lutz<\/strong>the boss of <strong>Deutsche Bahn (DB)<\/strong>is being pushed out because of recurring problems with <strong>punctuality <\/strong>of the German rail company's trains. The company has come under fire not only from users, but also from the German government, which has opted for this radical decision despite the fact that the head of the company, appointed in 2017, had not reached the end of his term of office. However, Richard Lutz will remain in his post until a successor is found.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<aside class=\"wp-block-varenne-link-block\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.voyages-d-affaires.com\/en\/ponctualite-2024-deutsche-bahn-20250109.html\/\" data-id=\"189043\">Punctuality on Deutsche Bahn trains deteriorated further in 2024<\/a><\/p><\/aside>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-2024-pire-annee-pour-la-ponctualite\">2024 worst year for punctuality<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The head of Germany's equivalent of SNCF is paying for DB's repeated delays with a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.voyages-d-affaires.com\/en\/ponctualite-amelioree-trains-paris-francfort-20241210.html\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">punctuality <\/a>for long-distance trains (ICE and IC), which fell to 62.5% in 2024 compared with 79% in 2016, a score that was already unsatisfactory. 80% of these delays are attributable to the <strong>obsolescence<\/strong> of the German rail network, with 23% of track and 26% of points in poor condition in 2023, according to a DB report. This lack of maintenance could be the cause of the derailment of a regional train on 28 July, which killed 3 people and injured 41 others in Baden-W\u00fcrttemberg.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"720\" height=\"520\" src=\"https:\/\/www.voyages-d-affaires.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/db-ice-cologne.jpg\" alt=\"Deutsche Bahn Cologne\" class=\"wp-image-185589\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.voyages-d-affaires.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/db-ice-cologne.jpg 720w, https:\/\/www.voyages-d-affaires.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/db-ice-cologne-300x217-derived.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.voyages-d-affaires.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/db-ice-cologne-324x235-derived.jpg 324w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A Deutsche Bahn ICE train at Cologne station (Photo: LC)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<aside class=\"wp-block-varenne-link-block\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.voyages-d-affaires.com\/en\/deutsche-bahn-renovation-lignes-20240717.html\/\" data-id=\"178133\">Deutsche Bahn: years of renovation planned on its lines<\/a><\/p><\/aside>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-des-investissements-et-renovations-deja-en-cours\">Investments and renovations already underway<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The German government is due to unveil the <strong>22 September<\/strong> The French Prime Minister has announced a new plan to support rail infrastructure. The French government has already pledged to provide \u20ac20 billion this year (after \u20ac17 billion in 2024) as part of a total budget of \u20ac1 billion. <strong>107 billion to be spent by 2029<\/strong> 500 billion special fund dedicated to transport infrastructure. DB has launched a project to renovate the tracks on around forty of its busiest corridors between now and 2030.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Germany's state-owned railway company is to let go its head because of delays to its trains and the poor state of part of the network, the source of its punctuality problems and accidents.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":71,"featured_media":205437,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[1203,1353,2103],"type-darticle":[52],"n_magazine":[],"class_list":["post-205431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ferroviaire","tag-allemagne","tag-compagnies-ferroviaires","tag-deutsche-bahn","type-darticle-breve","vapo-free"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.9 (Yoast SEO 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