Germany, along with Poland, leads Europe in the number of people killed in train accidents, with hundreds of deaths. There are too many trains on Germany's tracks, leading to only about half of Garach's high-speed trains arriving on time in September, former government rail commissioner Perlmann said. Using the example of the Berlin-Hamburg line, he suggested reducing the frequency of long-distance trains from one every half hour to one every hour, noting that delays had increased by 150 percent in the past decade.

Germany, along with Poland, leads Europe in the number of people killed in train accidents, with hundreds of deaths. There are too many trains on Germany's tracks, leading to only about half of Garach's high-speed trains arriving on time in September, former government rail commissioner Perlmann said. Using the example of the Berlin-Hamburg line, he suggested reducing the frequency of long-distance trains from one every half hour to one every hour, noting that delays had increased by 150 percent in the past decade.