The success of the IC3 from the 1980s lead politicians in the 1990s to decide not to electrify the tracks, but instead count on diesel, and so the IC4 project was initiated. It was a bad decision then, particularly because the IC4 project was vastly different than the IC3 project. So one could not count on it having the same success.
It's a worse decision in retrospect. Fortunately, though, both the former and the current government agree that the tracks need to be electrified along all major routes, and that we should purchase electric locomotives that are already rolling in other European countries.
It's a worse decision in retrospect. Fortunately, though, both the former and the current government agree that the tracks need to be electrified along all major routes, and that we should purchase electric locomotives that are already rolling in other European countries.