Deutsche Bahn cancels new route building after funds cuts | EUROtoday

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NAfter the cuts within the transport funds, Deutsche Bahn is reducing its new building tasks to virtually nothing. In addition to passenger site visitors, this may hit freight site visitors notably laborious, in keeping with an inventory by the rail community firm Infrago, excerpts of which have been accessible to the Reuters information company on Friday.

The remaining funds for the following few years ought to due to this fact circulate virtually completely into the renovation of present routes; building tasks which might be already underway needs to be accomplished. However, central new building tasks such because the connection between Frankfurt and Mannheim, which is central for each passenger and freight site visitors, don’t have any likelihood. The “Spiegel” first reported. The railway didn’t remark when requested.

The federal authorities had really promised the railways an extra 40 billion euros by 2027. After the Constitutional Court ruling on the illegality of the funds plans and the following cuts, round 27 billion euros stay.

The deleted checklist additionally contains tasks similar to the brand new constructing between Hamburg and Hanover or Nuremberg and Würzburg. In addition, the long-planned route from Uelzen by way of Magdeburg to Halle, which is vital for freight site visitors, is affected.

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What can also be disagreeable for Germany is that the entry to the Swiss Gotthard Tunnel between Karlsruhe and Basel can also be affected. The part is central to European freight transport. This additionally applies to a bit close to Oberhausen that was meant to enhance connections to the North Sea ports of the Netherlands. On the Dutch aspect, the route has been in operation since 2017.

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The Green Railway skilled Matthias Gastel warned of clear-cutting. The federal authorities's objectives such because the relocation of rail freight transport or the electrification of railway traces threatened to fail. “The Ministry of Transport and Finance must now come up with solutions, otherwise there is a risk of massive damage to the economy.”