Felix Banaszak: Greens boss requires the usage of the particular fund for renewal of the prepare | EUROtoday

Green boss Felix Banaszak expects the federal government of Chancellor Friedrich Merz (CDU) “that in three or four years the special funds in the everyday life of the population can be felt in all regions.” He subsequently referred to as for a part of it for use to resume the prepare.

The new railway chief has to get the billions of Federal Finance Minister Lars Klingbeil (SPD) in order that the prepare can rating with secure costs, extra punctual trains and extra connections, ”Banaszak informed the Funke Media Group.

Federal Transport Minister Patrick Schnieder (CDU) desires to current his technique for Deutsche Bahn this Monday. It is anticipated to current a successor to DB boss Richard Lutz on the event. As up to now few days, the present DB Regio boss Evelyn Palla ought to be, which the Ministry of Transport has not but confirmed.

Banaszak warned that the very best technique paper will fail if Merz and Klingbeil “do the billions of billions in special funds for CSU election gifts that hardly any longer has anything left for infrastructure projects.” If Chancellor and Minister of Finance “continue as before, we will get a huge problem for the entire democratic party landscape at the latest in 2029.”

The Alliance Pro Schiene rail alliance referred to as for the rail community to do with out the rail community within the new rail technique. So far, the infrastructure division of the railway, DB Infrago, the “common good orientation in the name, but in practice many things are not yet common good,” managing director Dirk Flege informed the newspapers of the editorial community Germany (RND). As an instance, he cited the federal return expectation when it will increase the fairness of the DB and the DB has to pay him curiosity.

“They go through the ceiling almost unchecked”

There should even be a brand new regulation for the route costs which can be due for the usage of the rail. “They walk through the ceiling almost unchecked, and the federal government is only inadequate against,” stated Flege. The set off for the upper rail toll can also be the set off enhance.

The earlier contradictions between frequent good orientation and return expectation would subsequently should be dissolved within the new rail technique, Flege stated: “The federal government must throw the old stock market logic overboard.”