MDoes Deutsche Bahn take climate change particularly seriously? In one way or another, the IT disruption at Lufthansa, triggered by construction work on an S-Bahn in Frankfurt, is discussed with a wink and humor on Twitter. “Deutsche Bahn is now boldly tackling the shift from air traffic to rail,” wrote former left-wing member of the Bundestag Fabio de Masi on Twitter on Wednesday.
“Deutsche Bahn is knocking out Lufthansa” or “Bahn is getting more customers” were similar comments. Other users of the network rated the connection between an airline’s IT problems caused by railway construction work as a symbol for “Germany, somewhere between digitization and traffic change” or jokingly assumed that a climate activist was an excavator driver.
Telekom itself worried on Twitter with a wink that the cables themselves deep underground were not safe. “Even at a depth of 5m, our glass fiber is not safe from concrete drills. After Düsseldorf at the weekend, now also in Frankfurt,” wrote the company.
According to railway information, a cable in a cable bundle from Telekom was severed by a “commissioned construction company” during construction work on the S6 in Frankfurt.