Tag: Road planning
Telekom wants to improve cell phone network on highways
Freeway With the agreement, Telekom goes beyond state expansion obligations. (Photo: IMAGO/HEN-FOTO) Bonn Deutsche Telekom wants to significantly improve its cell phone network on the Autobahn. The Bonn-based company announced…
Telekom wants to improve cell phone network on highways
Freeway With the agreement, Telekom goes beyond state expansion obligations. (Photo: IMAGO/HEN-FOTO) Bonn Deutsche Telekom wants to significantly improve its cell phone network on the Autobahn. The Bonn-based company announced…
Supervisory Board of the Autobahn slows down Minister Wissing
Federal Transport Minister Volker Wissing (FDP) Wissing miscalculated with his replacement of the Autobahn GmbH. (Photo: IMAGO/Achille Abboud) Berlin The supervisory board of the federal Autobahn GmbH rejects the plan…
The supervisory board and staff oppose Wissing
Volker Wissing The Federal Transport Minister took the Autobahn company by surprise with his personnel decisions. (Photo: dpa) Berlin The news hit the approximately 11,000 employees of the motorway company…
Federal government builds freeways without priority
Construction work on the A40 in NRW The federal government is apparently not only implementing particularly urgent projects in highway construction, as a request from the Left Party shows. (Photo:…
Federal government builds freeways without priority
Construction work on the A40 in NRW The federal government is apparently not only implementing particularly urgent projects in highway construction, as a request from the Left Party shows. (Photo:…
Autobahn GmbH: Government balance sheet revealed: Unconstitutional mixed administration remains
Berlin The federal Autobahn GmbH will be dependent on help from the federal states for a long time to come. This emerges from a balance sheet by the federal government…
Coalition exclusion ends without agreement
The chairmen of the traffic light parties and parliamentary groups met with Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) in the late afternoon. In addition to faster construction of roads and bridges, there…
Disrupted supply chains because of five centimeters
Heavy truck on the highway The transporters suffer from the bureaucratic chaos of Autobahn GmbH. (Photo: dpa) Berlin It only takes a thumb’s length – and the supply chain breaks.…
Infrastructure: dilapidated bridges, crumbling administration
Berlin Federal Transport Minister Volker Wissing (FDP) visited the disaster this Thursday that shocked him right at the beginning of his term in office: the closed Rahmede viaduct on the…
A rapid reaction force for heavy projects
Berlin The federal government wants to reorganize the highway administration in order to rehabilitate dilapidated bridges and expand trunk roads more quickly. This emerges from a position paper by the…
A rapid reaction force for heavy projects
Berlin The federal government wants to reorganize the highway administration in order to rehabilitate dilapidated bridges and expand trunk roads more quickly. This emerges from a position paper by the…
Dilapidated bridges in Germany: the construction industry is waiting for orders
Berlin Federal Transport Minister Volker Wissing experienced his first surprise six days before he was even appointed Minister. On December 2, the federal highway company had to close the Rahmedetal…
The state-owned company will drive Peugeot in the future
Motorway near Munich Actually, it needs a powerful management. (Photo: IMAGO/xcitepress) Berlin If you take a look at the fleet of the federally owned Autobahn GmbH, you will be surprised:…
4000 bridges are to be renewed by 2030
Rhine Bridge Leverkusen The pace of bridge modernization is to be accelerated. (Photo: dpa) Dusseldorf Federal Transport Minister Volker Wissing (FDP) sees a great need for action on the motorway…
A need should become a necessity
Berlin In the transport industry, truck drivers are remembering a joke that was fashionable a few years ago: A father from the new federal states is driving his children to…
Experts expect further bridge closures
Fortunately, a replacement is already in place in Rindsdorf, so the old building was ready for demolition. However, the old bridges have one thing in common: Like thousands of other…
Experts expect further bridge closures
Fortunately, a replacement is already in place in Rindsdorf, so the old building was ready for demolition. However, the old bridges have one thing in common: Like thousands of other…
“Second-class charging stations” on the Autobahn
Rest area with charging station An electric car is parked at a charging station at the only fully renovated rest area “Ostseeblick” near Heiligenhafen. (Photo: dpa) Dusseldorf If you want…
The balance sheet of the Autobahn GmbH of the federal government is sobering after a year
Highway construction site According to information from the Handelsblatt, the motorway company will not be able to obstruct half a billion euros this year, which is a good ten percent…