Greens can also do without bans: that’s why Germany does not need a speed limit

Traffic policy of the traffic lights

Greens can also do without bans: Why Germany does not need a speed limit

Mobile in Germany Survey of the speed limit: If only drivers are interviewed, there is a majority against it

• Site editor Sebastian Viehmann

In the coalition probes, the FDP prevailed on the subject of speed limit. Synthetic fuels should complement electromobility. The traffic light actual creates a green transport policy without green dogmatism? A comment.

It was certainly not an essential element of the traffic lights, but still a symbolic thing: the speed limit on motorways. The SPD wanted it to have the Greens, the FDP under no circumstances. The point victory went to the FDP: There will be no general speed limit on German highways, according to the exploratory paper.The question is: Why are the Greens bent in one of their favorite projects? To have a better basis for negotiations for other topics – such as a future burner ban or even higher CO2 taxes? Possible. But it could also be easy that the Greens took the chance to prove something. Namely that "green" Transport policy does not always have to consist of prohibitions.

Green politics can also be without bans

The advantages and disadvantages that a speed limit would bring were discussed until the excess. Each page sees itself in the right. A phenomenon that can be observed in a similar way to the helmet obligation for cyclists . But how much personal responsibility does the state want to take its citizens and what are the advantages of it? Tempol limit and helmet are like corona measures of the brand "Extra -type", where, despite double vaccination, you still keep your distance yourself in the beer garden and wear mask. Of course, this reduces the theoretical risk of infection by a few percentage points. But who wants to live like this forever?

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One thing is certain – and this should ultimately have persuaded the Greens to give in to the topic of speed limit: the speed limit would be reliable both in terms of the environment and in traffic safety, but compared to other measures one of the smallest bikes that are turned can. Example of traffic safety: Most of the traffic fatalities were to be complained about in 2020 on country roads. 1592 people died here, which was 58.6 percent of all traffic fatalities. In the city, 810 people died in accidents (29.8 % of all traffic fats) and 317 people on highways (11.7 % of all traffic fatalities).

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The more electric cars, the less high-speed

By the way: the more electric cars are on German roads, the lower the speeds that have been driven should also be. Not only because of the high consumption of the electricity at high speed, but also because of the limits ex works. VW, for example, stops its Stromer at 160 km/h, Hyundai at 170 km/h, BMW between 200 and 225 km/h, Daimler at 180 to 210 km/h. This also looks like a real -life compromise: if you absolutely want to drive 280 km/h, you may be better off on a race track. But there is still no reason why we drivers should not continue to drive in the future in suitable traffic conditions.

The thickest boards of the traffic lights are still coming

After the speed limit has been put to the files, Greens, FDP and SPD can now prove that they can also make reasonable compromises on other topics and do without dogmas in order to make really real life instead. Finally, there are construction sites in traffic policy that are of a completely different caliber than the speed limit on motorways:

• E-mobility. The influence of the Federal Government on this is limited in that the EU has already given the right of electric car centrally. At the national level, it is all about implementation, and not about rigid "Exit data" Or quotas, but very practical to create the technical requirements in the first place . So, dear traffic lights: do not hang on dogmas like "Concerns ban on 200x" Or quotas, but creates the right and growing infrastructure. Otherwise you will fly around your ears because of the frustration of the drivers.
• City traffic of the future: Instead of giving every farm with a bus stop for ideological reasons, the traffic light coalition should simply recognize that a life without your own car in the country is only worthwhile for a small minority. If your energy is therefore based on the cities and creates concepts that really implement the reduction in car traffic, which is very central from the Greens. If in doubt, drivers will probably have to bring the larger victims.
• Last not least: Who should pay for that? It cannot be concerned that the taxpayer damage of up to 20.000 euros per subsidized electric vehicle is created and at the same time every grandma with her old Toyota or every family man with his diesel sharan wealthy wealthy financed your electric SUV in the form of exploding gasoline price tax. There must be no redistribution from arm to green. What now "just" is – lower CO2 taxes, redistribution to the citizens, as the Greens suggest, or in a different way – that can be negotiated. But one thing is clear: electric car drivers also use streets, block parking spaces and indirectly cause emissions through electricity production. So in the future you will have to make your contribution as well as gasoline and diesel drivers have always done.

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That might be interested in politics:

• The FDP MEP Moritz KOrner, who belongs to the traffic lights negotiating rounds, calculates in his guest contribution for Site Messerscharf with EU Commission President of the Leyen. Ursula von der Leyen has been in office for two years this week. KOrner, who is also a member of the FDP Presidium, accuses her of having sold Parliament and the public for stupid. Guest contribution by Moritz KOrner – "I regret having chosen you": FDP MP also calculates from the Leyen
• The CDU begins the search for a new party leader with a break. Little was frowned upon in the Christian union – for good reasons – as grassroots democracy. The fact that she is now looking for her salvation in it can confidently book as an expression of despair. Inspired – column by Ulrich Reitz – the fight for the CDU chairmanship, where the real power is in the Union
• Hardly any foreign minister has shaped Germany’s picture in the world as stupid as Heiko Maas. And hardly any foreign minister left as large construction sites and accidents as Maas. Iran, Afghanistan and the relationship with the USA and the other great powers – there is a lot to do for his successor. A billing. SPD in the Federal Foreign Office – Foreign policy dawns – apparently Maas didn’t know what he was doing

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