Damaged car toll: “One of the most expensive dead ends”

Transport Minister Scheuer is due to join the Toll-U Committee in a week. His pet project, which has failed, is being criticized: so far it has cost the federal government 79.3 million euros. And that might just be the beginning.

The exploding car toll has cost the federal government 79.3 million euros so far. Among them are seven million euros, which have been incurred this year until September 18, since the Federal Ministry of Transport responded to a Green question. First, the newspapers of the Neue Berliner Redaktionsgesellschaft reported about it. So this year alone, 5.2 million euros have been incurred for experts and legal costs. Therefore, the total costs incurred since 2014 will continue to increase.

Green transport politician Stephan Kühn said the car toll was “one of the most expensive dead ends of the Bavarian regional party CSU” and its transport minister Andreas Scheuer.

Scheuer must testify before the committee of the U

The department head will be questioned for the first time in the Bundestag’s commission of inquiry next Thursday. Scheuer has been criticized because he signed the control and recognition contracts before legal certainty existed. The contract concluded with a consortium of operators at the end of 2018 had a volume of around two billion euros.

The Court of Justice of the European Union, however, annulled the project in mid-2019. Now the toll operators and the federal government are facing in an arbitration procedure in which the amount of compensation will be discussed. The operating consortium places its claims at 560 million euros. The federal government wants to claim that companies are not entitled to any compensation. The process could drag on for years.