AfD on transport

The AfD wants to permanently prevent the planned 2035 end of new combustion-engine cars rather than merely delay it. The state would also cut all subsidies for electric cars and charging stations. The platform points to the importance of the auto industry and says e-mobility must compete on the market.

The AfD wants to keep allowing gasoline and diesel cars. The ban planned for 2035 should be dropped completely. The state should no longer pay for electric cars. This also applies to charging stations. The AfD says electric cars must sell without help.

The state government would push in the Bundesrat for a final stop to the combustion engine ban. At the state level, all funding for electric vehicles and their charging infrastructure would end, and the AfD wants the same at the federal level. The platform notes that 96 percent of vehicles in Germany have combustion engines. It adds that many people in Saxony-Anhalt work in the auto and supplier industries.

The AfD wants to clear the backlog of investment in roads and bridges and to present a financing plan for it. Planning approval procedures are to become much shorter. The platform argues that reliable infrastructure secures growth and jobs.

Many roads and bridges are in bad shape. The AfD wants to plan more money for repairs. There should be a plan for how to pay for it. Planning for building projects should also be much faster.

The platform points to an investment backlog in the billions and cites the KfW municipal panel 2025 as evidence. It says neglected maintenance leads to more expensive full rebuilds later. The AfD wants to draw up an overall refinancing plan and press the federal government to meet its obligations in the state. A leaner administration is meant to sharply shorten planning approval procedures. Where federal law stands in the way, an AfD state government would push for changes in the Bundesrat.

The AfD wants to repair roads faster and build highways, federal roads and bypasses more quickly. The platform sees the car, usually with a combustion engine, as the most important means of transport in this largely rural state. Construction sites and detours are to be geared more toward drivers' needs.

The AfD wants to fix roads faster and build new roads. The car should stay the most important way to get around. Road work should bother drivers less. Detours should be shorter and have better signs. There should be more parking spots for trucks.

The platform names "Freie Fahrt für freie Bürger" (free travel for free citizens) as its guiding principle. It lists, among others, the A14, the A143, the B6n with an extension to the B184 toward Bad Düben, the B2 bypass at Zeitz, and bypasses on the B107 and B184. In the Altmark region, the so-called Hosenträgervariante is to be built and the B190n is to link the A14 and A39. Construction stops caused by lawsuits the AfD considers unnecessary are to be avoided. The responsible agencies are to check for better detours and pass data quickly to navigation systems. The AfD also wants to expand truck parking along major roads as needed.

The AfD wants to keep the state's ferry connections for the long term. The costs are to be shifted by law from the municipalities to the state. The platform argues that ferries, as a voluntary task, currently weigh on other municipal services.

Ferries matter in the countryside where there are no bridges. Today, towns mostly pay for them. The AfD wants to change that. The state should pay for the ferries. Then towns have more money left for other things.

According to the platform, ferries stand in for missing bridges and spare people long detours. So far, mostly municipalities pay for their upkeep as a voluntary task. The platform says this comes at the expense of other voluntary services such as libraries and swimming pools. The AfD wants to assign the financing to the state through changes in the law, especially in rural areas.

The AfD wants to expand local public transport, explicitly as a complement to the private car and not as a replacement. Train stations are no longer to be dismantled and closed lines are to be reactivated where possible. Magdeburg and Dessau-Roßlau are to get better long-distance rail connections.

The AfD wants more buses and trains. They should add to the car, not replace it. Train stations should no longer be taken down. Old rail lines should be used again. Magdeburg should get ICE trains in all directions.

The platform commits to the combustion-engine car as the basis of mobility. The dismantling of stations, such as the one in Jütrichau, is to end. The Heidebahn line between Wittenberg and Eilenburg is to be taken into local public transport together with Saxony, served regularly and also used for freight trains. For Magdeburg, the AfD calls for ICE connections in all directions; for Dessau-Roßlau, an IC line from Leipzig via Potsdam to Berlin. It wants to negotiate with Deutsche Bahn on this. The Harz narrow-gauge railway is to be kept as a tourist attraction.

The AfD wants all schoolchildren in Saxony-Anhalt to get the Deutschlandticket (nationwide public transport pass). So far, only students who take part in school transport receive it. Counties that cannot pay for this themselves are to get grants from the state.

Today, only some students get the Deutschlandticket. That is a pass for buses and trains. Students who live close to school do not get it. The AfD wants the pass for all students. The state should help the counties with money.

According to the platform, students currently get the pass only if they generally live at least two kilometers from their school. The counties bear the cost. The AfD wants to extend the pass to all students. Counties whose own funds are not enough are to receive financial help from the state.

The AfD wants a statewide review of how heavily disabled parking spaces are used. Where spaces stay empty over the long term, their number is to be cut. The platform argues that there are more such spaces than eligible users need.

The AfD wants to check parking spaces for people with disabilities. It wants to know how often they are used. If many spaces stay empty for a long time, there should be fewer of them. The AfD thinks there are too many of these spaces.

The platform assumes that several disabled parking spaces often stay free while other drivers cannot find a spot. A statewide review of usage is meant to show where spaces go unused over the long term. These are to be reduced, or the state is to encourage and support municipalities in doing so. According to the platform, people with disabilities should still not have to compete with others for the same spaces.

The AfD rejects state subsidies for cargo bikes. It sees them as favoring certain road users for the sake of cutting CO₂ and wants to spend the money elsewhere.

The state now gives money to buy cargo bikes. The AfD wants to stop this. It says this favors some road users over others. The money should go to other things.

According to the platform, Saxony-Anhalt has several funding programs for cargo bikes. Businesses, public institutions and associations can get up to 60 percent of the purchase price, and municipalities and counties up to 90 percent. The AfD calls CO₂ reduction an ideology and wants to use these funds for other purposes in the future.

The AfD wants to stop the Bundesrat's 2020 resolution on motorcycle noise from being put into practice. It wants to promote motorcycling as a hobby and give special support to SIMSON culture as part of youth culture.

The Bundesrat wants stricter rules against motorcycle noise. The Bundesrat is the chamber of Germany's states. The AfD is against these rules. It wants no driving bans for motorcycles. It wants to support motorcycling and SIMSON mopeds.

According to the platform, the Bundesrat resolution of May 15, 2020 calls for stricter noise limits, tougher penalties for exhaust modifications, driving bans, more checks and liability regardless of fault. The AfD considers these measures excessive and argues that structural noise reduction is not possible on combustion-engine two-wheelers. It wants to create more room for motorcycling as a hobby. The platform says SIMSON mopeds keep young people in rural areas mobile and stand for an East German tradition.

The AfD wants to simplify and speed up planning for bike paths and substantially increase state funding for municipal cycling networks. In its view, bike paths should serve everyday travel and cycling tourism but should not be used against car traffic in cities.

The AfD wants more and better bike paths. Planning should be simpler and faster. Towns should get more money from the state for this. But bike paths should not get in the way of cars in cities.

The platform sees a well-developed network of bike paths as the basis for cycling and cycling tourism. Bike paths are to be included from the start when new state roads are planned. The AfD describes positions such as cycling coordinators and cycling networks as unnecessary bureaucracy that does not help expansion. State funding for municipal cycling networks is to rise substantially.

The AfD wants to boost tourism on waterways and press the federal government to complete the Saale-Leipzig Canal. The inland ports on the Elbe are to be combined in a state-owned company to relieve the municipalities.

The AfD wants more tourism on rivers and canals. The federal government should finish the Saale-Leipzig Canal. The ports on the Elbe river should belong to one state company. This should take a burden off the towns.

The platform describes the rivers as increasingly important for tourism and calls for more attention from the state government. The ports of Magdeburg, Aken, Roßlau and Wittenberg are to be moved into a state-owned company, modeled on Saxony's Sächsische Binnenhäfen Oberelbe GmbH. This is meant to relieve the municipalities that run these ports today. The federal government is also to implement the overall "Elbe" concept more quickly.