CDU on transport

The CDU wants to complete the A14 and A143 highways as fast as possible and push ahead with further road projects. It also calls for a high-speed ICE rail connection for Magdeburg, a bridge repair plan and statewide traffic management.

The CDU wants to finish the A14 and A143 highways quickly. Other roads should be expanded too. Magdeburg should get a fast ICE train connection. Broken bridges should be repaired according to a plan.

On heavily used sections, the A14 is to be widened to six lanes. The platform names as priorities the extension of the A71 to Bernburg, a highway ring east of Magdeburg and better long-distance connections for the state's larger and mid-sized centers. The CDU backs a statewide bridge repair plan and additional fixed crossings over the Elbe. A state traffic management center is to pool data from the control centers of counties and transport companies. Rest areas and truck stops are also to be expanded, with additional guarded truck parking.

The CDU wants infrastructure to be planned and built faster and backs a federal acceleration law to that end. Lawsuits are to be possible only for those who took part in the procedure beforehand. The party wants to abolish the Verbandsklage (the right of associations to sue) entirely.

The CDU wants building projects to be planned faster. The federal government should pass a new law for this. Only people who took part in the process may sue. Associations should no longer be allowed to sue at all.

The CDU supports federal plans to bring back preclusion and to introduce a cut-off date rule. Preclusion means that objections not raised in time during the procedure no longer count in court later. The right to sue is to be tied to active participation as a requirement. The Verbandsklage, which lets recognized associations take projects to court, is to be dropped completely.

The CDU rejects further speed limits on highways, 30 km/h limits on through roads in towns, and driving bans. Everyone should be able to choose which technology they use to get around. Low-emission zones in city centers that the party considers outdated are to be lifted.

The CDU does not want new speed limits on highways. It also does not want 30 km/h limits on main roads in towns. It rejects driving bans. Everyone should decide what they drive. Old low-emission zones in cities should go.

The platform names openness to all technologies as a basic principle and opposes what it calls ideological debates about bans. Instead of bans, the CDU relies on incentives for environmentally friendly drive systems. It lists low-emission diesel, electric mobility, hydrogen and biofuels. As its guiding idea, the platform describes mobility for everyone, from the community bus to the family's diesel car.

The CDU wants to make buses and trains more reliable, extend the Sachsen-Anhalt-Takt (the state's coordinated timetable) and keep the Deutschlandticket. People in rural areas should get more out of the ticket than before. The party calls on the federal government to invest in the rail network.

The CDU wants to make buses and trains better. The Deutschlandticket should stay. People in the countryside should get more out of it. The federal government should spend more on rail. Rural areas should get new services, such as on-call buses.

The Sachsen-Anhalt-Takt is meant to link all larger and mid-sized centers in the state reliably. The state is to subsidize the purchase of environmentally friendly buses and their infrastructure and to provide more weather-protected waiting areas. The federal government is asked to invest in track renewal, electrification and higher speeds; lines without overhead wires should get a path toward climate-friendly operation. The CDU wants to shift more freight to rail and calls for tourist long-distance trains north and south of the Harz mountains. A pilot project is to test services for rural regions such as on-call transport, community buses, autonomous driving and sharing services with joint app booking. A mobility law could later bundle the rules.

The CDU wants to build more bike paths and give regional bike path plans more support. Suburban areas are to be better connected to the cities. Cycling training in schools is to continue and be extended to cover e-scooters.

The CDU wants to build more bike paths. Suburbs should get good bike paths into the city. Children should keep learning safe cycling at school. There should also be courses for e-scooters.

People who commute by bike should find secure parking facilities with charging options. Cycling training in elementary school is to remain in the hands of the state police together with schools and local partners. The training is also to continue in lower secondary school. For seniors, the CDU plans more voluntary road safety programs.

The CDU wants the Elbe, Saale and Unstrut rivers to be navigable all year and backs barrages and the Saale side canal for that purpose. It wants to keep supporting Leipzig/Halle Airport and to expand Cochstedt airfield as a research site.

Ships should be able to use the Elbe, Saale and Unstrut rivers all year. The CDU wants to build barrages for that. The Saale side canal should be built. The CDU wants to keep supporting Leipzig/Halle Airport.

The platform justifies barrages under the overall Elbe concept with the protection of plants and animals. The Saale side canal is to be built as a project of the Federal Transport Infrastructure Plan; the CDU rejects dismantling technical structures. Ports and shipyards are to be better linked to other modes of transport. Water tourism is to be promoted and marketed.