In Germany, there will remain no General reduction of the speed to 130 kilometres an hour on highways. The Federal government granted an appropriate speed limit for a cancellation.
A General speed limit on German autobahns is not planned and is not in the coalition agreement. There is already a large part of the German road network, speed regulations, which are adapted to the respective traffic and environmental situation, said government spokesman Steffen Seibert in Berlin.
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“There are also smarter control options as a General speed limit,” said Steffen Seibert, but left the question of what these were. The government is now waiting for the results of a working group of experts to more climate protection in transport. Then the Federal government will work on measures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the transport, said Seibert.
Scheuer rejects plans
As last Considerations, the working group had become known, among which a speed limit of 130 kilometers per hour on motorways. This had triggered a broad debate. Transport Minister Andreas Scheuer, had spoken out strongly against a speed limit. He pointed to the safety of German car drivers in the global comparison. “German highways are the safest roads in the world”, said the CSU politician of the “Bild am Sonntag”. He also said that the System of recommended speed of working and have proven themselves.Recommendations of the Commission, there is not yet, you are expected to be available by the end of March.
Strictly against a General speed limit on highways: Federal transport Minister Andreas Scheuer
Also the limit values for fine dust and nitrogen oxide, whose Exceedance is the reason for bans, drew Scheuer once again in doubt. “We need to the logic of the limits,” said Scheuer. In addition, you must discuss the locations of measuring points. Nowhere else the values would be measured as in Germany. Similar to the top candidate of the European people’s party for the European elections, Manfred Weber (CSU) expressed. The automotive industry also welcomed the discussion.
Diffuse working group on climate protection
What time is the working group for more climate protection in the transport hits the next Time, is unclear. After the Considerations about the speed limit were public, had to be postponed, the Ministry of transport a scheduled session. The climate-damaging greenhouse gas emissions in the transport sector have not declined in the past few years. The Federal government had announced for 2019, a climate protection law with specific requirements for the transport sector.
A Sensitive Interview
For vertebrae, an Interview by the Federal environment Minister, Svenja Schulze (SPD) in the ZDF-show “Berlin made directly”. Schulze has to face the accusation that they do not represent any clear attitude in this issue. You had referred to on Sunday night a number of times on a working group for the climate protection in the traffic and transport Minister, Scheuer, without answering, as she herself stands on the subject. For this, she received ridicule and criticism, especially in the network Twitter.
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The environment Secretary of state Jochen Flasbarth defended the Minister: “It was absolutely right that Svenja Schulze has left the question of the speed limit in open. Climate protection in the transport is much more complex,” he wrote. A rejection of a speed limit is “as wrong as consent”.
In a survey, around half of Germans (51 percent) had argued for the introduction of a speed limit of 130 kilometers per hour on German highways – 47 percent of citizens are against a speed limit. The sentiment compared to November 2007 had not changed, as the issue had been discussed in Public, said recently in the current Germany trend in the ARD morning magazine.
cgn/uh (afp, dpa, rtr)