What do the parties in Baden-Württemberg say on transport?

The AfD wants to scrap the planned phase-out of combustion engines without replacement and not limit state subsidies to electric cars. It rejects CO₂ taxes, driving bans and speed limits it considers unjustified. The platform cites protecting the auto industry and its jobs.

The AfD wants to keep allowing cars with combustion engines. The state should not support only electric cars. The party is against CO₂ taxes and driving bans. It wants to protect the car industry and its jobs.

The AfD wants to make road freight more efficient, expand rest stops and truck parking, and build more loading terminals for rail. It rejects a truck toll at the state level. It points out that more than 80 percent of goods are moved by road.

The AfD wants to build more rest stops for trucks. Drivers can take breaks and refuel there. More goods should also be moved onto trains. The AfD does not want a state truck toll. A toll is a fee for using roads.

The AfD regards the car as part of personal freedom and wants to lower parking costs for drivers. Cycling should get no priority over cars, and the Landesmobilitätsgesetz (state mobility law) should be repealed without replacement.

The AfD wants to help drivers. Parking should cost less. Bikes should not come before cars. The state mobility law should go.

The AfD wants to sharply raise funding for maintaining and expanding roads and bridges. In its view, the motor vehicle tax should go entirely to roads. The highway network should also be expanded.

Many roads and bridges are in bad shape. The AfD wants to spend much more money to fix them. Money from the car tax should pay for roads. There should also be more highways.

The AfD wants more tracks, trains and train drivers to allow more frequent service. A state-owned company would be set up to reopen disused rail lines. Airports should stay competitive and flights affordable.

The AfD wants more tracks and more trains. More train drivers should be trained. Then trains can run more often. Flying should stay affordable for people.

The CDU wants to turn the entire state into a testing area for autonomous driving. Pilot corridors in urban and rural areas and a dedicated legal framework are to be created for this. Baden-Württemberg is meant to take an international lead.

Autonomous cars drive without a driver. The CDU wants them to be tested across the whole state. There should be special test routes for this. New rules should allow the tests and make them safe.

The CDU wants a "planning offensive" to modernize transport routes faster and to swiftly carry out all planned autobahn projects in the state. Funding for bridge maintenance is to double by 2030. It wants to drop the climate check in funding for municipal transport projects.

The CDU wants to build and repair roads, rail and bridges faster. Bridges should get twice as much money by 2030. All planned autobahns should be built. A climate check for transport projects should be dropped.

The CDU rejects a truck toll on state and municipal roads so as not to add burdens on commercial traffic. Terminals for combined transport are to be expanded and digitized. The "Güterverkehr 2036" (Freight Transport 2036) initiative plans more truck parking, charging points and delivery zones.

Trucks should not pay a toll on state and local roads. A toll is a fee for using roads. The CDU wants more parking and charging stations for trucks. Goods should switch more easily between rail and truck.

The CDU wants to support electric mobility, hydrogen and synthetic fuels on an equal footing. Charging and fueling stations are to be built quickly through faster permits, and synthetic fuels are to get a reliable legal framework.

The CDU wants to support different ways to power cars. These include electricity, hydrogen and man-made fuels. More charging and fueling stations should be built faster. Companies should be able to rely on stable rules.

The CDU wants smoother traffic through smart traffic lights, real-time data and AI-supported guidance systems. It rejects a city toll or similar fixed access restrictions.

The CDU wants fewer traffic jams through modern technology. Traffic lights and parking guidance should work smarter. The CDU does not want a fee for driving into city centers. Nobody should die in traffic.

The CDU wants to expand public transit with more frequent service, new routes and modern vehicles. The service is meant to win over passengers, since in the party's view switching cannot be imposed. Modes of transport are to work together better through unified ticketing and digital platforms.

The CDU wants more buses and trains. They should run more often and be on time. Rural areas should also get good service, such as on-call buses. Tickets and timetables should become simpler. Drivers should not be put at a disadvantage.

The CDU wants to make regional rail more reliable, including through incentives and penalties for rail companies when trains are late or canceled. More security staff and video surveillance are also meant to make passengers feel safer.

Trains in the state should be more on time. Rail companies should face penalties when trains are late or canceled. More security staff should ride along in the evening and at night. There should be cameras everywhere in trains, buses and stations.

The CDU wants to finish the Stuttgart 21 rail project together with the Stuttgart digital rail hub to secure capacity, punctuality and connections. The Gäubahn line is to be linked directly to Stuttgart and the airport through the Pfaffensteig tunnel.

The CDU wants to finish building the new Stuttgart 21 station. Trains there should run on time and connect well. The Gäubahn line should get a new tunnel. Until then, it should still run well to Stuttgart.

The CDU wants to make cycling and walking safer and more practical for everyday use, with continuous bike networks, safe intersections and accessible sidewalks. Bike paths are to be built where they are actually used, not everywhere across the board.

The CDU wants better paths for bikes and people on foot. Intersections and routes to school should become safer. New bike paths should go where many people ride. People should be able to park bikes safely at train stations.

The CDU demands that EU laws rely on technology neutrality instead of bans such as the phase-out of combustion engines. The EU should support the shift to climate-friendly drive systems and autonomous driving through incentives, innovation funding and infrastructure.

The EU wants to ban new cars with combustion engines. The CDU is against such bans. It wants all technologies to stay allowed. The EU should promote clean engines with incentives. It should also build things like charging stations.

The Greens want to modernize rail lines, bridges, roads and grids more quickly. A new state task force would ensure that planning, permitting and construction take no more than half as long as they do now.

Bridges, roads and rail lines should be renewed faster. The Greens want a new task force in the state for this. Planning and permits should take only half as long. Broken bridges should be replaced especially fast.

The Greens want to use the Bundesrat to ensure gas stations may raise their prices only once a day. At EV charging stations, prices are to be displayed openly and card payment made possible.

Gas prices change many times a day. The Greens want gas stations to raise prices only once a day. At charging stations for electric cars, the price should be easy to see. People should be able to pay by card there.

The Greens want to expand public transit in line with the state's ÖPNV-Strategie 2030 (public transit strategy), especially in rural areas, and keep fares affordable. Mobility is to be reliable, accessible and climate-friendly everywhere.

The Greens want more buses and trains. This is especially true for villages and small towns. Tickets should stay affordable. Footpaths and bike paths should be safe and free of barriers.

The Greens want to give priority to maintaining and modernizing existing bridges and roads over new construction or widening. New road projects are to be ranked by transparent criteria including a climate check.

The Greens want to fix old roads and bridges first. New roads come only after that. For new roads, there should be a check on how they harm the climate. Broken bridges should be renewed quickly.

The Greens want to keep reducing noise and air pollutants from traffic and justify this with health protection. Aircraft noise, especially from Zurich Airport, is also to decrease.

Noise and dirty air make people sick. The Greens want to keep lowering both. Nobody should suffer from harmful traffic noise. Noise from airplanes should also go down.

The Greens want to help the state's regional transit associations become leaner and more efficient. Fares and technical systems are to be simplified and made uniform statewide. Low-cost offers such as the youth ticket are to stay.

The state has many transit associations. These are groups of bus and train companies. The Greens want them to work in a simpler way. Ticket prices should follow the same rules everywhere. Cheap tickets for young people should stay.

The Greens want to double public transit ridership by 2030 compared with 2011. To get there, the rail network and train fleet are to be modernized and local transit made more reliable. A "future timetable 2040" is meant to deliver frequent service.

The Greens want more people to use buses and trains. By 2030 there should be twice as many riders as in 2011. There should be new trains. Buses and trains should be more on time. They should also run more often.

The Greens call Stuttgart 21 a costly mistake but accept the result of the referendum. They want to make the rail hub more capable through additional construction and give the Gäubahn line a permanent direct link to the main station.

Stuttgart is getting a new underground train station. The Greens think the project costs too much. But they want to make it better. The old tracks should stay until the new station works well. Trains from the south should go straight to the main station.

The Greens want to bring as many disused rail lines as possible back into service. Where there are no tracks, the Regiobus network is to grow together with municipalities so that places without a connection get hourly service.

Some rail lines have been closed for years. The Greens want to use many of them again. More Regiobus lines should run too. These are fast buses to the nearest train station. They should run every hour, from early to late.

The Greens want to expand the Mobilitätspass (mobility pass) and support its local rollout. It lets cities and counties charge a levy whose revenue goes into more bus and train service and cheaper fares.

Cities and counties may charge a fee for buses and trains. This is called the Mobilitätspass. The money pays for better local transit. The Greens want more places to use it. Each place should be able to pick a fitting version.

The Greens want to expand regional rail across the state together with municipalities. Single-track lines are to be electrified and upgraded, and new connections created. The party wants to hold the federal government to its share of the funding.

The Greens want more train service in rural areas. Old lines should get electric wires. There should be new links, also to France. Where wires cost too much, battery trains should run. The federal government should help pay.

The Greens want to deliver a mobility guarantee by 2030: at least one service every 30 minutes in rural areas and every 15 minutes in urban areas. The state would give financial support to the responsible transit authorities for running this minimum service.

The Greens want a guarantee for buses and trains. In rural areas, something should run every 30 minutes. In big cities, every 15 minutes. The state gives money for this. Volunteer-run buses should also get more help.

The Greens want to make Baden-Württemberg the leading large German state for autonomous driving in public transit. Self-driving on-demand shuttles are to link places that have neither rail nor regular bus service.

The Greens want to use small buses without drivers. People can call them when needed. They should link places without trains or buses. This also helps when drivers are missing. The technology should come from Baden-Württemberg.

The Greens want scheduled and commuter boat service on Lake Constance to become part of public transit. It should be usable with a uniform fare and run more often.

Boats run on regular routes on Lake Constance. The Greens want them to count as public transit. Then a ticket like the Deutschlandticket works there. It may cost a little extra. The boats should run more often.

The Greens want to fund mobility hubs that bring together buses, trains, sharing services and charging points. Digital information services and open data are meant to make switching between modes of transport easier.

The Greens want places where changing is easy. There you find buses, trains, rental bikes and chargers. Apps should show what is free right now. For example parking spots or shared cars. The state collects data for this.

The Greens want to support municipalities in turning town centers into traffic-calmed, greener spaces. Car traffic is to slow down, parking areas are to be unsealed, and parking is to be priced to cover its costs.

The Greens want calmer town centers. Cars should drive more slowly there. Parking lots should become green spaces. Parking should cost what it costs the town. There should be more room to walk, sit and play.

The Greens stick to "Vision Zero," the goal of no more traffic deaths. They want to get there through lower speeds, safe crossings, school streets and more decision-making leeway for municipalities.

The Greens want no one to die in traffic. Cars should drive more slowly. There should be safe crossings. Streets near schools should be free of cars. Towns should be able to set speed limits more easily.

The Greens want to complete a roughly 8,000-kilometer bike network and at least 20 cycle highways by 2030. Cyclists are to get their own paths wherever possible, and fast S-pedelecs are to be allowed on more routes.

The Greens want more and better bike paths. By 2030 a network of 8,000 kilometers should be done. There should also be 20 fast bike routes for commuters. Roads outside towns should get separate bike paths. Fast e-bikes should be allowed there too.

The Greens want to keep expanding the charging network for electric vehicles, including trucks. The state is to become a hub for climate-neutral, digital vehicles and thereby secure jobs in the auto industry.

The Greens want more chargers for electric cars. Electric trucks should be able to charge fast too. The power grid should be strong enough for this. The state should build the best clean cars. This should keep jobs safe.

The Greens want more freight moved by rail and inland ship. To that end they call for upgraded rail infrastructure, rapid expansion of the Rhine Valley Railway, more transfer terminals and modernized locks on the Neckar.

The Greens want more goods moved by train and ship. Trucks would then drive only the short distances. This needs better tracks. The rail line in the Rhine Valley should be expanded fast. The locks on the Neckar river should also be modernized.

The Greens want to rebuild rail lines to France, strengthen local transit with Switzerland and make tickets valid across the border. This is meant to promote climate-neutral mobility and the shared economic area on the Upper Rhine.

The Greens want more trains across the border. Old rail lines to France should run again. The Deutschlandticket should be valid as far as Strasbourg, Colmar and Mulhouse. Young people should get cheap tickets for trips to the neighboring country.

The SPD wants to close gaps in public transit across the state by 2030 and make transit a mandatory municipal task that the state helps fund. It also aims for a single transit association covering all of Baden-Württemberg.

The SPD wants buses and trains to run everywhere. In cities every 15 minutes, in the countryside every 30 minutes. Towns should have to offer this. The state should pay for it. There should be only one transit association in the state.

The SPD wants to secure the Deutschlandticket (nationwide transit pass) for the long term and add a statewide discounted ticket for people on low incomes. The youth ticket is to cost 365 euros a year again.

The SPD wants to keep the Deutschlandticket. People with little money should get a cheaper ticket. Young people should ride for one euro a day. Buses and trains should not get more expensive.

The SPD wants to prioritize repairing bridges, tunnels and roads over building new ones. This is meant to secure mobility without sealing additional land.

The SPD wants to fix broken roads and bridges. That matters more to it than new roads. Planning should go faster. A driver's license should stay affordable.

The SPD wants to invest in bike paths, build bike highways faster and link different modes of transport better. This is meant to make getting around without a car easier, especially where regular transit falls short.

The SPD wants to build more bike paths. Bikes, buses and trains should fit together better. Community buses should get money. Cable cars should also become part of local transit.

The SPD wants to move more freight onto rail and waterways to relieve the roads. It rejects a truck toll on state and county roads because, in its view, this would mainly burden mid-sized companies and the regional economy.

The SPD wants more goods to travel by train and ship. That way, fewer trucks should be on the roads. The SPD does not want a truck toll on state and county roads. A toll is a fee for driving on roads.

The SPD wants to draw up an aviation plan covering all airports in the state. The airports are to be net greenhouse gas neutral by 2040.

The SPD wants to make a plan for all airports in the state. By 2040 the airports should no longer harm the climate. The SPD does not want to promote short flights. People should be better protected from aircraft noise.