SPD on transport

The SPD wants a mobility guarantee: every town in Bavaria should be served hourly by bus, train, or on-call taxi. To achieve this, rural services would be expanded, funding for local transit sharply increased, and the rail network enlarged.

The SPD wants a bus or train in every town every hour. It calls this a mobility guarantee. There should be more buses and trains in rural areas. Towns should get much more money for this. Old rail lines should run again.

Every municipality would have a connection to a regional train station at least every two hours. The Bavarian railway company would become a mobility company that advances express bus lines and the reopening of closed rail lines. Hubs with park-and-ride lots and bike garages, on-demand buses, shared mobility services, and a half-price taxi scheme for young people would round out the offer. Transit grants to municipalities would rise from 55 million to 250 million euros a year. A special rail program is planned, and in the medium term the SPD wants to invest one billion euros a year in climate-friendly transport. It backs the northern access route to the Brenner, electrification of rail lines, and the best possible noise protection.

The SPD wants to introduce a Bavaria-wide local transit pass for 29 euros that lets holders take their own children along for free. School students, university students, and trainees would ride for free, and there would be a senior pass and a reduced-fare social pass. In the long run, the party aims for free local transit.

The SPD wants a 29-euro ticket for all of Bavaria. Parents can take their children along for free. School students, university students, and trainees should ride for free. Older and poorer people should get their own tickets. Later, buses and trains should be free for everyone.

The program justifies the passes by saying that mobility should stay affordable. The 29-euro ticket applies to families and single parents and includes free travel for their own children. For people with limited means, it plans a free pass for school students, university students, and trainees, a senior pass, and a Bavarian social pass. Completely free local transit is named as a long-term goal.

The SPD wants to promote zero-emission mobility, above all electric cars and cycling, and to push for a speed limit at the federal level. It rejects a third runway at Munich Airport and wants to remove it from the state development program.

The SPD wants more electric cars and more charging stations. Bavaria should get a cycling law and fast bike routes. The SPD supports a speed limit in Germany. Munich Airport should not get a third runway.

A cycling law would govern the expansion of bike infrastructure, including fast cycle routes at state level; pedestrians would also get more space. For cars, the program relies mainly on electric mobility but describes itself as open to other technologies: green hydrogen is an option for heavy freight, and it sees e-fuels mainly for ships and aircraft. Charging networks would be expanded faster, and Bavarian carmakers should build the climate-friendly, recyclable vehicle of the future in the state. Workers in the auto industry would be supported through the transition. Planning and permitting for climate-neutral infrastructure would be sped up.