What do the parties in Saxony-Anhalt say on transport?

The AfD wants to permanently prevent the planned 2035 end of new combustion-engine cars rather than merely delay it. The state would also cut all subsidies for electric cars and charging stations. The platform points to the importance of the auto industry and says e-mobility must compete on the market.

The AfD wants to keep allowing gasoline and diesel cars. The ban planned for 2035 should be dropped completely. The state should no longer pay for electric cars. This also applies to charging stations. The AfD says electric cars must sell without help.

The AfD wants to clear the backlog of investment in roads and bridges and to present a financing plan for it. Planning approval procedures are to become much shorter. The platform argues that reliable infrastructure secures growth and jobs.

Many roads and bridges are in bad shape. The AfD wants to plan more money for repairs. There should be a plan for how to pay for it. Planning for building projects should also be much faster.

The AfD wants to repair roads faster and build highways, federal roads and bypasses more quickly. The platform sees the car, usually with a combustion engine, as the most important means of transport in this largely rural state. Construction sites and detours are to be geared more toward drivers' needs.

The AfD wants to fix roads faster and build new roads. The car should stay the most important way to get around. Road work should bother drivers less. Detours should be shorter and have better signs. There should be more parking spots for trucks.

The AfD wants to keep the state's ferry connections for the long term. The costs are to be shifted by law from the municipalities to the state. The platform argues that ferries, as a voluntary task, currently weigh on other municipal services.

Ferries matter in the countryside where there are no bridges. Today, towns mostly pay for them. The AfD wants to change that. The state should pay for the ferries. Then towns have more money left for other things.

The AfD wants to expand local public transport, explicitly as a complement to the private car and not as a replacement. Train stations are no longer to be dismantled and closed lines are to be reactivated where possible. Magdeburg and Dessau-Roßlau are to get better long-distance rail connections.

The AfD wants more buses and trains. They should add to the car, not replace it. Train stations should no longer be taken down. Old rail lines should be used again. Magdeburg should get ICE trains in all directions.

The AfD wants all schoolchildren in Saxony-Anhalt to get the Deutschlandticket (nationwide public transport pass). So far, only students who take part in school transport receive it. Counties that cannot pay for this themselves are to get grants from the state.

Today, only some students get the Deutschlandticket. That is a pass for buses and trains. Students who live close to school do not get it. The AfD wants the pass for all students. The state should help the counties with money.

The AfD wants a statewide review of how heavily disabled parking spaces are used. Where spaces stay empty over the long term, their number is to be cut. The platform argues that there are more such spaces than eligible users need.

The AfD wants to check parking spaces for people with disabilities. It wants to know how often they are used. If many spaces stay empty for a long time, there should be fewer of them. The AfD thinks there are too many of these spaces.

The AfD rejects state subsidies for cargo bikes. It sees them as favoring certain road users for the sake of cutting CO₂ and wants to spend the money elsewhere.

The state now gives money to buy cargo bikes. The AfD wants to stop this. It says this favors some road users over others. The money should go to other things.

The AfD wants to stop the Bundesrat's 2020 resolution on motorcycle noise from being put into practice. It wants to promote motorcycling as a hobby and give special support to SIMSON culture as part of youth culture.

The Bundesrat wants stricter rules against motorcycle noise. The Bundesrat is the chamber of Germany's states. The AfD is against these rules. It wants no driving bans for motorcycles. It wants to support motorcycling and SIMSON mopeds.

The AfD wants to simplify and speed up planning for bike paths and substantially increase state funding for municipal cycling networks. In its view, bike paths should serve everyday travel and cycling tourism but should not be used against car traffic in cities.

The AfD wants more and better bike paths. Planning should be simpler and faster. Towns should get more money from the state for this. But bike paths should not get in the way of cars in cities.

The AfD wants to boost tourism on waterways and press the federal government to complete the Saale-Leipzig Canal. The inland ports on the Elbe are to be combined in a state-owned company to relieve the municipalities.

The AfD wants more tourism on rivers and canals. The federal government should finish the Saale-Leipzig Canal. The ports on the Elbe river should belong to one state company. This should take a burden off the towns.

The BSW wants to bring key mobility infrastructure back into public ownership and opposes any further breakup of the railway. Roads and rail are to be repaired faster, and the A14 highway completed quickly.

Important transport routes should belong to the state again. The railway should not be split up further. Roads and tracks should be repaired faster. The A14 highway should be finished soon.

The BSW rejects a blanket ban on combustion engines and what it sees as a forced transport transition. It says cars remain indispensable in many parts of the state; at the same time, charging infrastructure for electric cars is to be expanded.

The BSW is against a ban on gasoline and diesel cars. Many people in rural areas need a car. But there should be more charging stations for electric cars. Nobody should be forced to switch.

The BSW wants reliable and affordable public transit with a unified fare system, including in rural areas. Schoolchildren and trainees are to ride free year-round, and the Deutschlandticket (nationwide transit pass) is to stay and become cheaper over time.

Buses and trains should be reliable and cheap. Schoolchildren and trainees should ride for free. The Deutschlandticket should stay and get cheaper. People with little money should get a low-cost social ticket.

In the long term, the BSW aims for publicly organized local transit that everyone can use free of charge. In view of demographic change, the party also wants to keep small rural elementary schools and better staff daycare centers.

In the long run, the BSW wants free buses and trains for everyone. Local transit should be in public hands. Small elementary schools in rural areas should stay. Daycare centers should have more staff per child.

The CDU wants to complete the A14 and A143 highways as fast as possible and push ahead with further road projects. It also calls for a high-speed ICE rail connection for Magdeburg, a bridge repair plan and statewide traffic management.

The CDU wants to finish the A14 and A143 highways quickly. Other roads should be expanded too. Magdeburg should get a fast ICE train connection. Broken bridges should be repaired according to a plan.

The CDU wants infrastructure to be planned and built faster and backs a federal acceleration law to that end. Lawsuits are to be possible only for those who took part in the procedure beforehand. The party wants to abolish the Verbandsklage (the right of associations to sue) entirely.

The CDU wants building projects to be planned faster. The federal government should pass a new law for this. Only people who took part in the process may sue. Associations should no longer be allowed to sue at all.

The CDU rejects further speed limits on highways, 30 km/h limits on through roads in towns, and driving bans. Everyone should be able to choose which technology they use to get around. Low-emission zones in city centers that the party considers outdated are to be lifted.

The CDU does not want new speed limits on highways. It also does not want 30 km/h limits on main roads in towns. It rejects driving bans. Everyone should decide what they drive. Old low-emission zones in cities should go.

The CDU wants to make buses and trains more reliable, extend the Sachsen-Anhalt-Takt (the state's coordinated timetable) and keep the Deutschlandticket. People in rural areas should get more out of the ticket than before. The party calls on the federal government to invest in the rail network.

The CDU wants to make buses and trains better. The Deutschlandticket should stay. People in the countryside should get more out of it. The federal government should spend more on rail. Rural areas should get new services, such as on-call buses.

The CDU wants to build more bike paths and give regional bike path plans more support. Suburban areas are to be better connected to the cities. Cycling training in schools is to continue and be extended to cover e-scooters.

The CDU wants to build more bike paths. Suburbs should get good bike paths into the city. Children should keep learning safe cycling at school. There should also be courses for e-scooters.

The CDU wants the Elbe, Saale and Unstrut rivers to be navigable all year and backs barrages and the Saale side canal for that purpose. It wants to keep supporting Leipzig/Halle Airport and to expand Cochstedt airfield as a research site.

Ships should be able to use the Elbe, Saale and Unstrut rivers all year. The CDU wants to build barrages for that. The Saale side canal should be built. The CDU wants to keep supporting Leipzig/Halle Airport.

The Greens want to expand the bike path network statewide and provide at least 15 million euros a year for it. Bike paths would normally be built whenever state roads are constructed or substantially renovated.

The Greens want more and better bike paths. The state should spend at least 15 million euros a year on them. Bike paths should be built next to state roads. Bikes should ride for free on buses and trains.

The Greens want to expand local public transit with more frequent service, more bus routes and a simple fare system. Every village would be served at least hourly, and the regional transit associations would be merged into one statewide network.

The Greens want more buses and trains. Every village should get a bus at least once an hour. In the evening, an on-call bus can come instead. There should be one transit network for the whole state.

The Greens want to give walking more weight in transport policy. They plan a state program for safe routes to school, wider sidewalks and a dedicated state strategy for pedestrians.

The Greens want people to walk safely. Children should have safe ways to school. The state should help towns with this. Sidewalks should be wide enough and have benches.

The Greens want to maintain existing roads and bridges before new infrastructure is planned. To pay for it, heavy trucks would contribute more through a revised truck toll.

The Greens want to fix old roads and bridges first. New roads come only after that. Heavy trucks should pay more for the roads. The truck toll should be changed for this.

The Greens want 30 km/h to be the default speed in built-up areas, with municipalities able to set exceptions, and 130 km/h on all Autobahn highways. They justify this with the 'Vision Zero' goal of no traffic deaths.

The Greens want a speed limit of 30 km/h in most town streets. Towns may make exceptions. On highways, the limit should be 130 km/h. The goal is that nobody dies in traffic anymore.

The Greens want to move more freight from roads to rail and waterways. To do so, rail sidings and transfer terminals would be built and the ports on the Mittelland Canal developed further.

The Greens want fewer trucks on the roads. Goods should travel more often by train or ship. New rail links and transfer stations should be built for this. In cities, more cargo bikes should be used.

The Left wants to expand local public transit and adapt it to the needs of older people. It plans accessible stops and vehicles, discounted tickets for seniors and more on-demand buses in rural areas.

Many older people need buses and trains. The Left wants more buses and trains. Stops and vehicles should be free of obstacles. Older people should get cheaper tickets. There should be more on-demand buses in rural areas.

The Left wants young people to be able to reach school, training and leisure places easily without a car. Buses and trains would run to match those needs, including evenings and weekends, and stay permanently cheap for young people. The platform names a youth ticket or free travel as the goal.

The Left wants young people to get around easily. Buses and trains should also run in the evening and on weekends. Travel should be cheap for young people. In the end it might cost nothing at all. Bike paths and routes to school should become safer.

The Left wants to expand public transit as an essential public service and connect every municipality to it. Funding is to rise noticeably, and transit is to become a funded mandatory task of local governments. Car and truck traffic should decline, though cars should stay affordable for villages without transit access.

The Left wants more buses and trains across the state. Every town should get a connection. The state should spend more money on this. In villages without a bus, cars should stay affordable.

The Left wants to offer public transit fare-free across the state in the medium term, arguing that cost is decisive for whether people use it. As a first step, there would be low-cost tickets for schoolchildren, apprentices, students, volunteers and people with low incomes. The federal government is to pay more, and the state is to legally permit new financing models.

The Left wants buses and trains to be free later on. First there should be cheap tickets. For example for students, apprentices and people with little money. Single tickets should not get more expensive every year.

The Left wants to preserve and expand the rail network instead of closing more lines and stops. Disused routes are to be protected in state planning, stops reopened, and long-distance connections in the state kept and extended. In the platform's view, past cutbacks contradict climate protection and leave rural regions behind.

The Left wants no more rail lines to be closed. Old lines and stops should be able to reopen. There should be more trains, running more often. More freight should go by rail instead of by truck.

The Left wants to make building bike paths between municipalities a state responsibility and close gaps in the cycling network. Road money is to go primarily to maintenance and be tied to expanding bike and pedestrian paths. The platform sees this as part of an ecological transport transition and points to projects stalled for lack of funds.

The Left wants to build more and wider bike paths. The state should be in charge of this. Road money should mainly keep old roads in shape. New roads should only come in certain cases. Sidewalks should get better too.

The Left wants a nationwide speed limit on autobahns and more 30 km/h stretches in cities and villages. Municipalities should be able to decide on lower speeds themselves. The platform cites Vision Zero, the goal that no one dies in road traffic anymore.

The Left wants a speed limit on all autobahns. Towns should have more 30 km/h zones. Cities and villages should decide this themselves. That way fewer people should die in crashes.

The Left rejects further expansion of Leipzig/Halle Airport as well as any military use. The night flight ban is to be enforced consistently, with an exception for strictly necessary express freight. The platform cites stressful working conditions and harmful nighttime aircraft noise at the logistics hub.

The Left does not want to make Leipzig/Halle Airport bigger. Hardly any planes should fly there at night. The military should not use the airport. People living nearby should be better protected from noise.

The SPD wants every school student to receive a Deutschlandticket (nationwide public transit pass). Children and teenagers, especially in rural areas, should be able to get around independently, safely, and affordably. On-demand and night buses as well as bike paths would also be expanded.

All school students should get a Deutschlandticket. This is a pass for buses and trains. There should be more on-call buses and night buses. Safe bike paths also matter to the SPD.

The SPD wants reliable, affordable public transit in every region and sets a mobility guarantee as the goal. The Deutschlandticket is to be secured for the long term and subsidized for seniors. Transit contracts are to be tied to collective bargaining agreements.

The SPD wants good buses and trains across the whole state. Everyone should be able to get around everywhere. The Deutschlandticket should stay affordable. Older people should get money toward it. Students and trainees should ride for free later on.

The SPD wants the state to run rail services itself through a joint company with Deutsche Bahn, dropping competitive tenders. According to the platform, this would save money and give employees security. Rail service is also to be expanded.

The state should run its trains itself. To do this, it should set up a company together with Deutsche Bahn. The SPD says this saves money and protects jobs. There should be more trains and new stops. No rail line should be closed.

The SPD wants to permanently spend at least a tenth of the state's road construction money on walking and cycling. A seamless statewide cycling network is to be built. The money is to go where routes are unsafe or missing.

The SPD wants more money for sidewalks and bike paths. At least a tenth of the road money should go there. A network of bike paths should cover the whole state. Bikes can still travel for free on regional trains.

The SPD wants to clear the investment backlog for roads and bridges, giving priority to repairs. Certain new construction projects are to go ahead anyway. The goal of zero road deaths (Vision Zero) is also to be pursued quickly.

The SPD wants to fix broken roads and bridges. Repairs come before new building. Some new bridges and roads should still be built. Traffic should become safer. Getting a driver's license should cost less.

The SPD wants to strengthen the state as a logistics hub while moving more freight onto rail and waterways. Leipzig/Halle Airport is to manage without permanent subsidies and cause less noise and CO2. Towns hit hardest by aircraft noise would receive money from a special fund.

The SPD wants more goods to travel by train and ship. Leipzig/Halle Airport should not get permanent money from the state. It should become quieter. Towns with a lot of aircraft noise should get money. Truck drivers should get better rest stops.