SPD on transport

The SPD wants to keep Frankfurt Airport as a central economic engine while expanding noise protection. It plans legally sound noise caps and an extended night flight ban. Airport policy would be oriented more toward collective bargaining coverage, co-determination, and protection of residents and the environment; Kassel Airport would also be strengthened.

The SPD wants to keep Frankfurt Airport strong. At the same time, people nearby should have less noise. There should be fixed limits on noise. The ban on night flights should get stricter. Airport jobs should pay good union-agreed wages.

The SPD wants to examine which flights can legally be moved into daytime to ease the early and late hours. Systematic violations of the night flight ban would be punished more firmly. The SPD wants to end the attraction of low-cost airlines, which the program blames on the previous state government. With its rail links and progress on propulsion and energy efficiency, the airport should become a model for sustainable aviation. The SPD sees Kassel Airport as important infrastructure for northern Hesse and wants to attract aviation-related businesses to its business park.

The SPD calls for a free transit pass for all students until they complete their school or vocational qualification. According to the program, the goal is equal mobility for everyone. Student transportation for all-day schooling is also to be secured.

The SPD wants a free transit pass for all students. The pass should be valid until they finish school. This also covers job training. Children should also learn to ride a bike and to swim.

Transportation to school is to be guaranteed in connection with the legal entitlement to all-day care as well. The SPD wants to change the rules on student transportation in Hesse's school law, citing participation for all. Children should be able to manage their way to school on their own by the end of elementary school at the latest.

The SPD wants to guarantee everyone in Hesse a public transit option to the nearest mid-sized regional center within 60 minutes. Local transit is to be adequately funded, and a discounted social ticket is to be added.

The SPD promises a mobility guarantee. Everyone should get a ride to the next larger town within one hour. Buses and trains should get enough money. Poor people should get a cheap ticket.

The regional centers are to be linked to one another every half hour. A public transit law is to set quality standards for expansion and operation. The share of trips on foot, by bike, bus, and train is to rise by 50 percent by 2030. In rural areas, on-demand services are to cover off-peak hours. Transit associations are to receive an extra Hesse fare budget, and a statewide app is to connect all modes of transport.

The SPD wants to reactivate disused rail lines, expand the bike path network, and invest more in repairing state roads. Autobahn projects already begun, such as the A44 and A49, are to be finished, but it does not want to start new ones.

The SPD wants to use old rail lines again. It wants to build many new bike paths. Autobahns already started should be finished. There should be no new autobahns.

With each reactivation, the state is to guarantee by contract 25 years of rail service. A five-year program is to add a separate bike path alongside every state road, and each county is to get a pilot bike highway. Investment in state roads is to rise to the level of depreciation, and charging infrastructure for electric mobility is to be funded. More freight is to shift to rail and water, and truck drivers are to get more rest areas. In the Bundesrat, the SPD wants to introduce a mandatory job ticket and a workplace levy.