What do the parties in Lower Saxony say on transport?

The AfD wants to invest far more in transport routes and networks to clear the repair backlog for roads and bridges. Lower Saxony's ports should also get sufficient funding. Municipalities should receive more money for their roads, and construction sites should take less time.

Many roads and bridges in Lower Saxony are in bad shape. The AfD wants to spend much more on repairs. The ports should get more money too. Towns should get more money for their roads. Road works should finish faster.

The AfD rejects a registration ban on combustion engines and wants free competition between drive systems. Subsidies and regulatory interventions in favor of electric mobility are to end, with only research being supported. The party wants to promote synthetic and alternative fuels.

The AfD does not want to ban gasoline and diesel cars. The state should stop paying money for electric cars. Buyers should decide for themselves which car they want. Research on electric cars should continue. The AfD wants to support other fuels such as hydrogen.

The AfD wants roads and rail to remain state property. The railway should reinvest its profits, remove bottlenecks in the network and become quieter. Smaller district towns should be better connected to the ICE high-speed network.

Roads and rail tracks should belong to the state. The AfD does not want them sold to private companies. The railway should put its profits into the network. Trains should become quieter. Smaller towns should get better links to ICE trains.

The AfD calls for a higher commuter tax allowance because the cost of getting to work has risen sharply. It considers many traffic fines disproportionate; they should be appropriate and based on income.

Getting to work has become more expensive. So the AfD wants more tax relief for commuters. Commuters are people who travel to work. The AfD thinks traffic fines are often too high. The amount should depend on income.

The CDU wants to keep Lower Saxony's sea and inland ports competitive and develop them into energy ports. This includes terminals for liquefied natural gas and facilities for landing hydrogen and ammonia. The platform justifies this with the ports' role in supply chains, energy supply and defense capability.

The CDU wants to strengthen the ports in Lower Saxony. More energy should arrive there, such as liquid gas and hydrogen. Rivers should also be made deeper for ships. The CDU says the ports matter for trade and security.

The CDU wants to shorten planning and approval procedures for transport and infrastructure projects, including through a dedicated state law for specific projects. Planning capacity would be expanded, and public participation would take place earlier but in a consolidated form.

The CDU wants to plan and build roads, bridges and rail lines faster. A new state law should help with this. The state should hire more planners and pay them better. Citizens should have their say early, but in one bundled process.

The CDU wants to push ahead with expanding federal highways and to provide more state money for expanding and repairing state roads. It cites growing car and truck traffic and the importance of accessibility for quality of life.

The CDU wants to spend more money on roads. Highways should be widened and gaps closed. State roads should be repaired and new ones built. Roadwork should be planned better.

The CDU wants to expand local public transit by road and rail, reopen disused rail lines and introduce an electronic fare that works across transit associations. For apprentices and people doing voluntary service, it aims for a statewide ticket costing no more than 365 euros a year.

The CDU wants more buses and trains, especially in the countryside. Old rail lines should run again. People should book rides by app and pay per kilometer. Trainees should get a ticket for at most 365 euros a year.

The CDU wants to support electric mobility, synthetic fuels and fuel cells without committing to one technology, and to expand charging infrastructure. Carsharing, shared taxis, citizen-run buses and on-demand services would also be supported, especially in rural areas.

The CDU wants to support several new ways to power vehicles. These include electricity, hydrogen and synthetic fuels. There should be more charging stations. The countryside should get more shared cars and on-call buses.

The CDU wants to continue the state bike path program and give it more money. A seamless cycling network in cities and rural areas would be planned across municipal boundaries, with funding for its implementation.

More and more people ride bikes or e-bikes. The CDU wants to spend more money on bike paths. Bike paths should connect well everywhere. Taking bikes on buses and trains should get easier.

The CDU wants more noise protection along rail lines and main roads and tougher action against deliberately loud vehicles. It points out that, according to the WHO, noise is the environmental problem with the second-highest disease burden after air pollution.

Traffic noise can make people sick. The CDU wants more noise barriers along roads and rail lines. People who illegally make their vehicles louder should pay fines. Such vehicles should be taken off the road.

The CDU wants to improve road safety because new modes of transport such as e-bikes and scooters raise the demands on it. Pilot projects for 30 km/h speed limits would be evaluated and allowed where they prove worthwhile.

There are more and more e-bikes and scooters on the roads. The CDU wants to make traffic safer. A 30 km/h limit should be tried in test projects. Where it makes sense, it should be allowed.

The Greens want a verifiable CO2 budget and binding reduction targets for transportation in Lower Saxony. Car traffic should fall substantially, while buses, rail, cycling and walking should grow strongly.

Cars and trucks emit a lot of CO2. The Greens want fixed targets for less CO2 from traffic. There should be less car traffic. More people should use buses, trains and bikes. More goods should travel by train and ship.

The Greens want to introduce a mobility guarantee: every locality in Lower Saxony should be served by public transit at least once an hour from early morning until night. Getting around should no longer depend on owning a car.

Many places have only a few buses. The Greens want to change this. Every place should have a bus or train at least once an hour. This should apply from early morning until night. Where regular lines make no sense, on-call buses should run.

The Greens want to revise the state's public transit law, provide more money and distribute it by transparent criteria. Three quarters of transport funding for municipalities should go to buses, rail, cycling and walking.

The Greens want to give more money to buses and trains. To do this, they want to change two laws. Three quarters of transport funding should go to buses, trains, bike paths and footpaths. New buses should run without diesel.

The Greens want much more capacity, more frequent service and more punctual trains in regional rail. To pay for it, higher federal funds would be used and state investment increased.

Many regional trains are late. The Greens want more trains to run. Trains should run more often and be on time. The state should spend more money on this. More lines should get electric power.

The Greens want to bring disused rail lines back into passenger service, mainly to connect rural areas better. Lines would be registered for federal funding, and a state plan would be drawn up together with the regions.

Lower Saxony used to have more rail lines. Many of them are closed today. The Greens want to reopen such lines. This should mainly help people in rural areas. The money should come from the federal government.

The Greens want to align regional rail with the planned nationwide Deutschlandtakt (integrated timetable) through a Lower Saxony timetable, so that connections become faster. Reliability and quality are to be decisive when rail contracts are awarded, and locally rooted rail companies are to be strengthened.

The Greens want a fixed timetable rhythm for Lower Saxony. Regional trains should match long-distance trains well. Then people wait less when they change trains. Rail companies from the region should get more support.

The Greens want to abolish first class on local and regional trains to free up space for all passengers. Trains are also to be better equipped, and a training drive is meant to tackle the shortage of train drivers.

The Greens want to end first class on local trains. That gives more room for everyone. Trains should have Wi-Fi, power outlets and tables. The state should train more people as train drivers.

The Greens want a statewide social ticket for 365 euros a year for apprentices, school students, people on low incomes and volunteers in service programs. Everyone else is to be offered an affordable statewide climate ticket, and the fare structure is to be unified across the state.

The Greens want a ticket for 365 euros a year. It works in all of Lower Saxony. First, students, apprentices and people with little money get it. Everyone else should be able to buy a cheap climate ticket. One ticket should be enough for one trip.

The Greens want to make buses and trains accessible across the whole state. To do so, the state is to provide earmarked funds and write this into the local transport law.

Buses and trains should be accessible everywhere. That means people with disabilities can use them well. The state should give its own money for this. This should be written into the law.

The Greens pursue the goal that no one dies in road traffic (Vision Zero). To that end, they advocate at the federal level for a 130 km/h limit on autobahns and want states to be allowed to introduce 80 km/h on rural roads and 30 km/h in built-up areas.

The Greens want no one to die in road traffic. For this, autobahns should have a limit of 130 km/h. States should be allowed to set 80 km/h on rural roads. In towns, 30 km/h should be possible.

The Greens want to build a statewide cycling network and initiate 1,000 kilometers of bike paths along rural roads. Funding for municipal road building is to go increasingly into bike paths so that more people switch from cars to bikes.

The Greens want to build many more bike paths. Along rural roads, 1,000 kilometers of new bike paths should be created. More road-building money should go to bike paths. This way more people should ride bikes.

The Greens want to give walking more weight in transport and urban planning and to reallocate traffic space overall. Municipalities are to be able to use street space differently, temporarily or permanently, and the number of cars is to drop significantly.

The Greens want better paths for pedestrians and wheelchair users. Space on the streets should be shared out anew. Towns should be allowed to use streets differently, for example for festivals or play streets. There should be fewer cars.

The Greens reject construction of the A20/A26, A33 Nord, A39 and E 233 as well as the Elbe bridge near Neu Darchau. Roads are to be repaired rather than newly built because, in the program's view, new roads increase car dependence and worsen the ecological crisis.

The Greens do not want to build new autobahns. For example, they are against the A20 and the A39. The money should go to fixing old roads. The Greens think new roads bring more car traffic.

The Greens want to create 100,000 public charging points in Lower Saxony by 2030 and have the auto industry share responsibility. The state's vehicle fleet is to run fully electric as a rule within five years, and parking lots are to be covered with solar panels.

The Greens want many more charging stations for electric cars. By 2030 there should be 100,000 public charging points. The state government's cars should run on electricity. Solar panels should stand above parking lots.

The Greens want to move as much freight as possible onto rail quickly. To this end, the federal government is to expand rail infrastructure swiftly, above all the overloaded Hamburg–Hanover north-south axis, and industrial parks are to get rail sidings.

The Greens want more goods to travel by train. Today most goods go by truck. The federal government should expand the rail lines faster. Large business parks should get a rail link again.

The Greens want to significantly reduce the climate impact of aviation and consider fewer takeoffs and landings necessary in the medium term. Longer night-time quiet hours are meant to protect residents from aircraft noise.

Planes harm the climate. So the Greens want fewer takeoffs and landings. Airports should be quiet for longer at night. That way people living nearby have less noise.

The Greens want to improve rail connections to the port of Wilhelmshaven and develop inland ports into transfer hubs for ship, rail and truck. The aim is to shift more freight onto ships and rail, which the platform regards as environmentally and climate friendly.

The Greens want more goods to travel by train and ship. The port of Wilhelmshaven should get better rail lines. Ports on rivers and canals should grow. Small harbors for fishing boats should stay too.

The SPD wants charging options for electric cars everywhere in the state by 2030 at the latest. To get there, it plans an expansion pact with municipalities, public utilities and the energy industry.

The SPD wants charging stations for electric cars everywhere. This should happen by 2030 at the latest. The state should work with towns, cities and energy companies. People in apartment buildings should also be able to charge their cars easily.

The SPD wants to expand bus and rail service, especially in rural areas, so people can get around without their own car. Municipalities are to be allowed to levy charges to fund fare-free transit, and students and trainees are to get a statewide ticket for one euro a day.

The SPD wants more buses and trains, above all in rural areas. People should get everywhere without a car. Students and trainees should get a ticket for one euro a day. It is valid across the state. Cities and counties should be allowed to collect money for transit without tickets.

The SPD wants to raise cycling's share of traffic from about 15 to at least 25 percent by 2030 and put more money into bike paths. Municipalities are to get more say, for example over lower speeds in built-up areas.

The SPD wants more people to ride bikes. There should be more and better bike paths. People on foot should also be safer. Towns and cities should more often set lower speeds themselves. Nobody should die in traffic.

The SPD wants to bring disused rail lines and stations back into service and launch a new program for this. Existing lines are to be upgraded and electrified because, in the party's view, rail travel helps the climate.

The SPD wants to strengthen the railway. Old rail lines and stations should open again. Existing lines should get better. More trains should run on electricity. More goods should also travel by train.

The SPD wants to keep planning and building the A 20, A 26 and A 39 highways. To renew road bridges, it plans to hire specialists and set up an investment program.

The SPD wants to keep building three highways. They are the A 20, the A 26 and the A 39. Many road bridges are old. They should be renewed. The SPD wants to hire experts and provide money for this.

The SPD advocates free local public transit for students in the upper secondary grades. This is meant to ease the burden on parents and young people. The tickets should ideally also be valid for trainees and people doing voluntary service.

Older high school students should ride buses and trains for free. The SPD wants to introduce this. It should help parents and students. Trainees and young volunteers should get the ticket too.