SPD on transport

The SPD wants to keep the senior ticket and the apprentice ticket and discuss a statewide youth ticket with the municipalities. In addition, an interest-free loan is meant to help young people pay for their first driver's license.

There are cheap tickets for seniors and apprentices. The SPD wants to keep them. It also plans a youth ticket for students and apprentices. With it, they can travel across the whole state. There should be a loan with no interest for the first driver's license.

In the SPD's view, both existing tickets have proven their worth. The platform sees a patchwork of different rules for school students across the state. The planned youth ticket would be modeled on the apprentice ticket and be valid statewide for both school students and apprentices. The party wants to work out the details together with the municipalities. The driver's license loan applies to a person's first license and carries no interest.

The SPD wants to strengthen local public transit in vacation regions so visitors do not need their cars at their destination. This is meant to calm traffic and ease the burden on communities. It also wants to press Deutsche Bahn for better long-distance rail service to the state.

Tourists should be able to leave their cars parked. For that, there should be good buses and trains. This helps locals too. The SPD also wants better long-distance trains to the state.

The program argues that strong local transit benefits residents and visitors alike. Free rides through guest cards are meant to cut car traffic and at the same time help pay for more frequent service in rural areas. The SPD wants to press Deutsche Bahn for lasting improvements in long-distance service to make arriving by train more attractive.

The SPD wants to keep supporting the Deutschlandticket (nationwide transit pass) with state money and press the federal government to keep it. It sees local transit as an essential public service, especially for people with little money and in rural areas.

The SPD wants to keep the Deutschlandticket. This is a pass for buses and trains all over Germany. The state will keep paying money for it. Buses and trains should be affordable for all. The SPD also wants to support new technology, such as driverless buses.

The program points to the mobility drive with additional train connections, sixteen new regional bus lines and an on-call bus system covering almost the whole state. It cites extra tickets for trainees and seniors as a contribution to affordability. The SPD wants to support a pilot project with on-call buses that will drive autonomously in the Ludwigslust-Parchim district, along with other new technologies.

The SPD demands more Regionalisierungsmittel (federal funds for regional rail) and additional funding for disused lines. The rail network is also to be expanded, electrified and made more resilient in a crisis.

The SPD wants more money from the federal government for trains. Old rail lines should run again. Important lines should become faster and better. Trains should run without CO2.

As examples of reopenings, the program names the Darßbahn, the southern rail link to Usedom and the Südbahn. From the federal government the SPD demands an upgrade of the Berlin–Stralsund line to 160 km/h and a second track between Stralsund and Rostock. A fair share of federal money for defense-related infrastructure should go to the state, for example for links to Poland and the Baltic states. The existing network is to be electrified, supplemented by battery or hydrogen trains. Stations are to become hubs for rail, bus, car and bicycle.

The SPD wants to stop Deutsche Bahn from withdrawing long-distance connections from Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and to strengthen long-distance service statewide. It argues that essential public services take priority.

The SPD wants long-distance trains to keep coming to the state. The rail company should not cut connections. Neubrandenburg should get long-distance trains again. People with a Deutschlandticket should be able to use these trains for an extra fee.

The framework agreement between the state and Deutsche Bahn on joint planning is to continue. At the federal level, the SPD wants holders of the Deutschlandticket to be able to use long-distance trains for a surcharge; this should apply to commuters statewide, as it already does for those from Rostock and Schwerin. The party wants better links to the metropolitan regions and more direct connections within the state, for example from Rostock to Lübeck or to Greifswald and Pasewalk.

The SPD wants to align the on-call bus system statewide and make it usable across district lines. Regional bus lines are to be strengthened, and tickets from all transit operators are to be available in one shared app.

An on-call bus only runs when you order it. The SPD wants the same rules for on-call buses across the state. The bus should also cross district lines. Tickets should be available in one app. Tickets without a phone should stay available.

In the "MV Fährt gut" app, all transit operators in the state are to sell tickets in the future, including on-call buses; non-digital ways to buy tickets are to remain. Uniform state standards are to apply to on-call buses, and pilot projects linking them to doctors' offices and care services are welcomed. The SPD wants to examine whether regional bus lines in high demand can gradually run hourly instead of every two hours and how connections can be improved. Together with municipalities it will also look at where commuter parking lots could make carpooling easier.

The SPD wants to work with municipalities to build bike paths faster and maintain existing ones. The goal is a statewide network that safely links cities, villages and small communities and makes people less dependent on cars.

The SPD wants to build more bike paths. The paths should connect the whole state. Old bike paths should stay in good shape. Then people need their cars less often.

Priority goes to bike paths along state and federal roads and on routes with heavy everyday and tourist traffic. The network is to be planned regardless of which authority is responsible for a given road. To speed up approvals, the SPD wants to use the simplifications offered by federal law. Long-distance cycle routes are meant to boost bike tourism. The working group AGFK-MV remains the partner, and conditions for pedestrians are to be improved with it as well. The SPD also wants to examine whether the state will back federal initiatives for road safety, climate protection and affordable mobility, including measures on highways, and to introduce children to public transit through educational programs.

The SPD wants to keep providing additional state money for building and repairing roads and to help municipalities maintain their roads and sidewalks. The focus is on preserving roads and bridges and on upgrading roads that run through towns.

The SPD wants to repair roads and bridges. The state should keep paying for this. Towns should get help too. Roads that run through towns should be upgraded first.

The program points to additional money from the MV-Plan 2035 for roads in the state and in municipalities. The SPD wants to press the federal government for sufficient funding for federal roads. Money from the federal special infrastructure fund for roads and bridges should also reach Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. Everyday safety is to be kept in mind when roads and sidewalks are repaired.