Tag: Ministry of Transport
Readers’ Prize winner Katja Diehl and the compulsion to have a car
Katja Diehl after the award ceremony “I want to show people that the I is not as important as the we,” says the author. Frankfurt The readers of the Handelsblatt…
Readers’ Prize winner Katja Diehl and the compulsion to have a car
Katja Diehl after the award ceremony “I want to show people that the I is not as important as the we,” says the author. Frankfurt The readers of the Handelsblatt…
Union puts rail customers on a hard bargaining round
ICE of the Deutsche Bahn The EVG union wants to negotiate hard on a new collective agreement at the beginning of next year. (Photo: dpa) Frankfurt The newly elected head…
Air traffic fears EU plans – industry asks Habeck for help
Berlin, Frankfort With rare unity, the German aviation industry criticizes Germany’s behavior in the final negotiations for the European climate program “Fit for 55”. In a letter to Federal Minister…
The controversial slit in the road by “Trenching”
Berlin The R2 leaflet reads like a warning for anyone who wants to lay fiber optic cables quickly and cheaply. There is talk of “considerable damage to the road infrastructure”,…
Traffic planning: revolution on the road
Berlin The program for the road and transport congress could hardly be more political: When civil engineers from industry, transport planners from science and experts from the administrations of the…
The federal government is waiving new billions from the toll
Toll bridge on the A3 Why wasn’t the software for the electronic toll collection system added early enough to be ready for use in 2023? (Photo: imago images/Jochen Tack) Berlin…
Deutsche Bahn: Independent quality controls required
train delays In long-distance traffic, 56.8 percent of trains were on time in August. The rate remained below 60 percent for the third month in a row, (Photo: dpa) Berlin…
Katja Diehl on a possible departure from the car
Traffic in Berlin According to the Federal Ministry of Transport, there are around 830,000 kilometers of roads in Germany, but only 38,600 kilometers of rails. (Photo: imago images/photothek) Dusseldorf With…
Deutsche Bahn subsidiary Schenker is apparently to be sold
DB Schenker The logistics company could be separated from Deutsche Bahn. (Photo: dpa) Berlin According to insiders, after a long struggle, the federal government has decided to sell the international…
Minister of Transport Wissing runs out of money
Federal Transport Minister Volker Wissing (FDP) A dispute has already broken out behind the scenes about which transport projects the coalition will forgo in the next few years (Photo: dpa)…
Criticism of too little money for transport, climate & digital
Berlin On Tuesday, the Federal Ministry of Finance presented the budget for 2023 in the Bundestag. Parliamentary State Secretary Florian Toncar (FDP), who represented Finance Minister Christian Lindner (FDP), called…
The federal and state governments are arguing about local transport discounts
Berlin Federal Transport Minister Volker Wissing (FDP) wants to fundamentally modernize local public transport after the experience with the nine-euro ticket. “People voted on buying the ticket that it shouldn’t…
Industry and transporters are critical
The criticism is not only based on the fact that the associations only had 24 hours to evaluate the plans. The Federation of German Industries, for example, describes the lack…
Energy Securing Transport Ordinance – Trains canceled without notice
freight transport Energy sources should be given priority. (Photo: imago images/Arnulf Hettrich) Berlin The Federal Ministry of Economics and Transport have agreed on an ordinance that will allow important transports…
Waterways & Co. challenge logisticians
Berlin. In view of the extreme low water on the Rhine, the federal government is becoming more aware of investing more in the waterways that are central to the economy.…
The low water in the Rhine is also a political failure
Low water in the Rhine In 2018, the company and the Ministry of Transport agreed on a plan against low water. The policy has done little. (Photo: Reuters) The annual…
Wissing wants to extend the 9-euro ticket – at least in the short term
Berlin Federal Transport Minister Volker Wissing (FDP) is basically open to extending the nine-euro monthly ticket for local transport, at least for a short time. “It is now up to…
Wissing wants to extend the 9-euro ticket – at least in the short term
Berlin Federal Transport Minister Volker Wissing (FDP) is basically open to extending the nine-euro monthly ticket for local transport, at least for a short time. “It is now up to…
Wissing wants to extend the 9-euro ticket – at least in the short term
Berlin. Federal Transport Minister Volker Wissing (FDP) is open to extending the nine-euro monthly ticket for local transport, at least for a short time. “It is now up to the…