Federal government builds freeways without priority
The federal government is apparently not only implementing particularly urgent projects in highway construction, as a request from the Left Party shows.
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Berlin The federal government is planning new trunk roads without prioritizing them according to urgency. This comes from a response from the Ministry of Transport to a request the left out in the Bundestag. Accordingly, between the end of 2016 and mid-2022, the federal government planned far more projects with little benefit than projects that would bring significant benefit. The answer is available to the Handelsblatt.
The left asked which new construction and expansion projects specified in the Federal Transport Infrastructure Plan have already been implemented or are in the planning stage. The plan rates projects based on urgency. For this purpose, benefits and costs are calculated and set in relation (NKV). If the NKV is greater than one, then a project is considered economical.
In 2016, the traffic infrastructure plan laid down 174 new projects that are considered to be particularly urgent (NKV greater than eight). However, only 31 of them started planning.
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