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Bundestag Approves New Urban Public Transport Bill

May 5582

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A train in the newly established S-Bahn line of Dunburg.

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BUNDESTAG, DUNBURG - The Bundestag approved with an unanimous vote, a rarity for Dundorf compared to other Terran nations, a piece of legislation that would revolutionize the way rail public transport works in our nation's biggest cities, by establishing a two-face system called S-Bahn and U-Bahn. Basically, thesw two different networks serve the city in two different ways, but they all belong to the city's public transport system, and the cities that are set to establish this service are all the State capitals plus some other major cities (such as Oberegg, Neukirckstadt, Rittersheim), in other words, all cities with a significant surrounding metropolitan and suburban area. This fact is important to understand the difference betweeen S- and U-Bahn, as the latter represents what is generally referred to as a subway or a metro, an underground railway system that connects every corner of a city, while the former, the S-Bahn, is more like a suburban train service that runs in the middle of the city centre, connecting far-away suburbs with places of interest and workplaces in the city proper.

In Dunburg, the city Mayor says the S-Bahn will run through all the main places of interest, especially for tourists, for example the Odervelder Gate, Karlottenberg Schloss, the Bundestag, the Tall Radio Tower, but also faraway places in the outskirts like the "Rudolph Rachenhausen" International Airport and the various suburbs all over the city. Similar projects will be applied in the other major cities, in the home city of the Zeitung, Nordenhaus, the S-Bahn will be connecting the (relatively) new Financial District, located in the outskirts, with the Old Town. The U-Bahn systems will be just an upgrade of the existent subway systems, with a revamp in terms of trains and marketing.

Since both systems will be utilizing existent infrastructure, the costs won't be that high: the Federal Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport will have to buy new trains, and build some new train station, yes, but no new lines will be required for the S-Bahn to function. For the U-Bahn, the main costs will be just about changing the signals to reflect the name change and carry some boosting infrastructural job to make the underground railway system capable of hosting more trains, no major costs for DB, our State Railway company, that will manage these new services.

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