Delayed trains, closed bridges, cracked climate targets: A turnaround in mobility is not in sight. And the self-proclaimed progressive coalition has yet to come up with a plan to counteract the standstill. comment by Markus BalserWhat does it mean to be traveling at Germany pace? Millions of commuters know this only too well. The country that invented cars, built the largest railway network in Europe and wants to be a climate pioneer has mutated into a republic of standstill. Trains...
More than 100,000 signatures: The Alliance Radentscheid Bayern submitted the application for a referendum to the Bavarian Ministry of the Interior on Friday. If the application is approved, in a second step at least one million voters would have to sign the "People's petition to strengthen bicycle mobility in Bavaria", or "Radentscheid" for short, the alliance announced on Friday.A Bavarian bike law is necessary because current road traffic laws "prevent a better bike infrastructure and because procedures, responsibilities and standards...
The federal and state governments have agreed to start the 49-euro monthly ticket for local transport on May 1st. What many wish for will become reality on May 1st," said the chairman of the conference of transport ministers, NRW Transport Minister Oliver Krischer (Greens), after a meeting of a federal-state working group.Sales of nationwide tickets for buses and trains in regional transport should therefore start on April 3rd, as Krischer said. Not only has progress been made on these issues,...
The federal and state governments have agreed to start the 49-euro monthly ticket for local transport on May 1st. What many wish for will become reality on May 1st," said the chairman of the conference of transport ministers, NRW Transport Minister Oliver Krischer (Greens), after a meeting of a federal-state working group.Sales of nationwide tickets for buses and trains in regional transport should therefore start on April 3rd, as Krischer said. Not only has progress been made on these issues,...
The federal and state governments have agreed to start the 49-euro monthly ticket for local transport on May 1st. That said NRW Transport Minister Oliver Krischer (Greens) as Chairman of the Transport Ministers' Conference on Friday after the meeting of a federal-state working group. The approval of the EU Commission is still pending.Last summer, millions of passengers used the nine-euro ticket during a three-month discount campaign. As a permanent successor, the nationwide ticket for 49 euros a month for buses...
In some districts of Hamburg, it has long been possible to use an app to order something that should be commonplace for millions of people in Germany in a few years: a local transport shuttle that picks up passengers at home or at a bus stop. In this way, the passengers of the HVV transport association can be taken to their destination, for example to the nearest train station, and not at the cost of a taxi, but at a...
In some districts of Hamburg, it has long been possible to use an app to order something that should be commonplace for millions of people in Germany in a few years: a local transport shuttle that picks up passengers at home or at a bus stop. In this way, the passengers of the HVV transport association can be taken to their destination, for example to the nearest train station, and not at the cost of a taxi, but at a...
The chainsaws have already done a great job in the Fechenheim forest. The route has been cleared, the tree houses are gone. For more than a year, opponents of the Autobahn had prevented clearing here, and with it the expansion of the A 66 near Frankfurt. In the middle of the month, the police cleared the forest. "A bitter defeat," says Alexis Passadakis, one of the organizers of the resistance alliance against the further construction of the Autobahn. "But the...
The launch of the "Deutschlandticket" - also known as the 49-euro ticket - has been delayed several times. Many doubt that it should now be available nationwide by May 1 at the latest, as stated by Transport Minister Volker Wissing (FDP). Rightly so: In order to introduce it, the legal framework must be in place by March, and the transport companies want to start advance sales in April. The industry is still sticking to this date, said Ingo Wortmann, President...
The launch of the "Deutschlandticket" - also known as the 49-euro ticket - has been delayed several times. Many doubt that it should now be available nationwide by May 1 at the latest, as stated by Transport Minister Volker Wissing (FDP). Rightly so: In order to introduce it, the legal framework must be in place by March, and the transport companies want to start advance sales in April. The industry is still sticking to this date, said Ingo Wortmann, President...
