Now lawyers decide. As always, when one thing went wrong. These days, federal administrative Court is advising on a complaint that could bring all public transport in Switzerland out of bar for years. The complaint is directed against temporary operating licence for new double-decker trains of SBB, it has been submitted by umbrella organisation of disabled organisations in Switzerland.
Until 19 February, judges in St. Gallen will not only decide wher handrails during intake and exit are actually too short, wher timetable information on monitors is unreadable and wher slope of ramp from train to Perron a wheelchair driver can be expected.
The judges decide wher new intercity trains are allowed to travel on schedule at all – or wher manufacturer's company is once again bent over plans and SBB has to take compositions already built and delivered by rails at latest in November.
The new Swiss double-decker, designed and built by Canadian railway manufacturer Bombardier, is not spared. In year 2010 ordered, 59 compositions should have actually been driving on schedule since 2013. Now it is clear, before 2019, that will be nothing.
The Twindexx Swiss Express, with 1.9 billion francs most expensive and largest acquisition in history of SBB and with 1,300 seats longest train ever to be in Switzerland, is and will remain a Problemzug.
This article dates back to time No. 08/2018. Here you can read entire output.His story explains what globalised railway business is suffering from. It shows what happens when state railways and ir supervisors do not know how to deal with emerging competition. And it tells what happens to a city, a region in East Germany when an order from Switzerland costs a railway company Zillions.
René Straube has spent his entire working life, it started 1981, in a factory for wagon construction. In Görlitz, a German city with 57,000 inhabitants, directly on border with Poland. First he was a machine worker, n team leader, he has been in works council for four years, he has been chairman for a year. So Straube is close, he knows what has gone wrong with Twindexx order of SBB since 2010 in Bombardier Factory. He experiences rumours that se weeks are increasingly condensed, that his work should not only be restructured, but perhaps even sold.
"This was a huge order, and this is good for first time", Straube recalls billion-order from Switzerland. "But it was clear that it can not only be processed in Görlitz." As always, when Bombardier builds a train, a tram, a subway, several locations are involved. The company has grown rapidly in 1990s with countless acquisitions, and it relies on global division of labour. Also in Switzerland and Germany. Here Bombardier took over Vevey technologies in Villeneuve, re Wagon factory Talbot in Aachen and German wagon building with factories in Berlin, Halle, Bautzen, Vetschau, Niesky – and in Görlitz. In 2001, Bombardier bought DaimlerChrysler rail systems, better known as Adtranz, with locations in Henningsdorf, Mannheim, Kassel, Nuremberg, three-Deep Brook and Braunschweig, in Zurich, Turgi and Pratteln.
Date Of Update: 19 February 2018, 12:03
