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German Parliament adopts infrastructure programme of historic proportions

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2025. 03. 26. 10:04

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500 billion euros will be invested to improve transport in the country. Under the rail heading, 40 high-capacity corridors and 4,000 kilometres of heavily used lines will be upgraded and a further 24,000 kilometres of other parts of the network will be renewed.

The German parliament, the Bundestag, has approved a draft law amending the Basic Law to provide €500 billion (at today's exchange rate, this represents a gigantic sum of approximately 200,000 billion forints) in support of German infrastructure. The primary goal is to make the country's transport system climate-neutral by 2045. A two-thirds majority was required to amend the constitution, according to railwaypro.com's recent published article.

The funds are earmarked for such improvements

To finance investments by the German federal states and municipalities, €100 billion has been earmarked, with a further €100 billion available for green projects, according to the summary.

RailwayPro quotes Volker Wissing, German Federal Minister for Digital Affairs and Transport, in an interview with ntv.de at the beginning of the month interview given to ntv.de at the beginning of the month. In it, the minister said that €220 billion will be spent on Germany's infrastructure by 2029 to ensure better and more connected mobility. With the general renovation of the rail network, the bridge modernisation programme and the water transport rehabilitation programme, a trend reversal has begun in all areas of transport.

28 thousand kilometres of railways to be renewed

In particular, RailwayPro highlighted rail developments: the 2030 targets of the DB InfraGO programme include upgrading 4,000 high occupancy kilometres of track on 40 high performance corridors and upgrading a further 24,000 kilometres of other network elements.

In addition, stations will be modernised and rebuilt, and the rail infrastructure will be digitised to provide extra capacity and more low-cost services.
DB InfraGO has invested €17 billion in 2024, and Deutsche Bahn aims to build a high-capacity network of more than 9,000 km by 2030, the article concludes, citing more huge figures.

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