AfD on transport

The AfD names road safety as its top priority, pointing to 37 deaths and more than 1,800 serious injuries on Berlin's roads. It calls for binding road safety audits, better visibility at intersections, and programs for school routes and junctions. Sidewalks are also to be repaired systematically.

People die in accidents on Berlin's roads. The AfD wants to make the roads safer. Intersections and routes to school should get better. Dangerous spots should be fixed faster. Sidewalks should be repaired too.

The guidelines for road safety audits are to be mandatory across Berlin. Sight lines at intersections, crossings, stops and around schools are to be checked and improved, the accident commission's findings implemented, and hazards removed faster. The plan includes the programs “Sichere Schulwege 2030” (safe school routes) and “Sichere Knoten 2030” (safe junctions) as well as more intelligent traffic control. A “Gehweg 2030” initiative is to remove tripping hazards, lower curbs at crossings and coordinate lighting; bottlenecks caused by parked e-scooters or bicycles are to be avoided.

The AfD wants to make buses and trains more attractive so that people switch voluntarily. This includes more staff, a rapid expansion of the rail network, digital train control and simpler ticketing. Safety and cleanliness patrols and access barriers for people without a ticket are to be added.

The AfD wants better buses and trains. Then more people will switch by choice. There should be more staff and more tracks. Patrols should keep the subway safe. People without a ticket should not get in.

A recruitment drive is to bring new staff to the BVG and the S-Bahn. Besides rail expansion, the program names cable cars, signal priority at traffic lights and CBTC train control, which is meant to allow more frequent service and separate platforms from tracks. New districts should only be occupied once transit links are complete, and fare offers should get commuters to switch while still in Brandenburg. Mobility accounts are to combine transit, car sharing and micromobility in one ticket. Accessibility is to grow for people with cognitive impairments as well, and self-driving buses are to start in selected areas.

The AfD sees the car as an indispensable part of urban mobility. It calls for building the 17th section of the A 100 highway, bringing back removed parking spaces and scaling back paid parking zones. Instead of Kiezblocks (neighborhood traffic barriers), traffic on main roads is to flow better.

The AfD does not want cars to be at a disadvantage in Berlin. The A 100 highway should be extended. Removed parking spaces should come back. Parking for residents should stay cheap. Neighborhoods should not be closed to cars.

Extending the A 100 is meant to relieve the Elsenbrücke bridge and close the inner highway ring. Ailing bridges are to be repaired early so demolitions are avoided, and a monitoring system is to record the condition and expansion needs of roads and parking. Construction sites are to be coordinated better and digitally, and underground routes are to free up space above. Also planned are digitally networked parking management, cheap resident parking through digital applications and more park-and-ride on the outskirts. For commercial traffic, the program calls for a logistics plan, delivery zones bookable by app and micro logistics hubs in the districts.

The AfD wants to convert Berlin's Mobility Act into an infrastructure law. The legal priority for public transit, cycling and walking is to be dropped without replacement, as are the expansion targets for the bike network. In the program's view, the law pursues a one-sided transport transition instead of objective needs assessments.

Berlin has a Mobility Act. It gives priority to buses, trains, bikes and people on foot. The AfD wants to remove this priority. All ways of getting around should be treated the same. Bike lanes should only be built where needed.

The Umweltverbund covers public transit, cycling and walking; its priority is to give way to equal treatment of all modes. The AfD rejects blanket traffic calming and calls the bike network expansion targets utopian. Bike lanes should be built according to demand, based on better monitoring, and preferably run along side streets parallel to main roads. Instead of modal filters, meaning barriers that block through traffic by car, road markings are to be used. The plan also includes a “1,000 bikes program” for lockable parking facilities and signal technology to reduce red-light violations.

The AfD wants to reform winter road service so that pedestrian safety comes first. In extreme icy conditions, limited use of road salt on sidewalks would be allowed; the street cleaning law would be amended for this.

Sidewalks are often icy in winter. The AfD wants to allow salt on sidewalks then. This should apply only when the ice is very bad. Older people in particular should be able to walk more safely. The AfD wants to change a law for this.

The law is to contain fixed triggers under which salt use is automatically permitted and to authorize the BSR (Berlin's sanitation service) directly. Bureaucratic hurdles and case-by-case decisions are to be removed. At the same time, a scientifically supervised pilot project is to test chloride-free de-icing agents that are safe for the environment and animals. If it succeeds, private households would generally be allowed to use such agents too.