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Greens Call for New Federal Highways and Highways to Stop
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Greens reach their highest level in more than half a year
In local elections in North Rhine-Westphalia, the Greens caused a sensation with widespread gains. Now the party is also rising in favor of voters across the country in a poll.
“We need a different transportation policy,” says Greens President Annalena Baerbock. Not only construction of the A49 must be stopped, but all larger projects. The FDP traffic expert praises it as “unknown.”
meIn the year before the federal elections, the Greens are calling for a radical rethinking of German transport policy. In a joint initiative, party and parliamentary group leaders are in favor of a moratorium on the restart of federal highways and highways, according to the “Süddeutsche Zeitung”.
“We need a different transportation policy,” Greens President Annalena Baerbock told the newspaper. Baerbock demanded that the federal government “stop now” the construction of the A49 in Hesse.
In Central Hesse, environmentalists and activists demonstrated again over the weekend against the controversial expansion of Autobahn 49. About 27 hectares of forest are to be cut down for the construction of this road. The police had recently started cleaning up the protest camps in the Dannenröder forest. The activists are trying to stop the logging that has started.
On Saturday, according to the police, up to 270 people took part in a bicycle demonstration from the Kassel main station on the highway to Dannenröder Forst. Due to the demonstration, the already completed section of the A49 southbound was temporarily closed.
Demonstration under the slogan “Danni stays”
According to the Giessen police, around 1,500 people gathered in Dannenrod at noon for a demonstration under the slogan “Danni stays”.
The local police registered a new influx of participants even after the demonstration started. 3000 people signed up for the rally followed by two walks through the woods. At first there were no incidents.
A participant drives to the bike demonstration in front of Kassel main station with a “Danni stays” banner.
Source: dpa
Facing the new oratory building demanded by his party, the leader of the Green parliamentary group Anton Hofreiter emphasized in the “SZ” that the federal highway and highway plans “must be verified for the fulfillment of climate objectives, necessity and efficiency. economic “.
He added: “The federal government’s transportation planning will consolidate countless highway projects over the next ten years and thwart German climate goals.”
FDP finds the proposal “unworldly”
The FDP rejected the Greens’ proposal as “purely ideologically motivated and unworldly.” “Instead of rapidly pushing infrastructure projects and cutting unnecessary red tape, the Greens are holding back here,” Oliver Luksic, a traffic expert at the FDP, told AFP news agency. “By doing so, they are doing Germany a disservice, because roads, bridges, rails and even bicycle lanes would remain unsanitary and in shambles much longer than they currently are.”
However, the environmental organization Greenpeace welcomed the initiative of the Greens. “The traffic routing plan should be revised to focus on climate-friendly mobility,” explained Greenpeace traffic expert Marion Tiemann. “There is no room for other highways on it.” She also called for “the cleanup work on the A49 to be suspended at least until all open ecological issues have been resolved.”
