Friday June 18, 2021
“Bavaria first” in road construction?
Kindler: Scheuer prefers his constituency
Does Federal Transport Minister Scheuer prefer his constituency of Passau when investing in road construction and repair? This claim makes Green budget politician Kindler after he has the numbers presented. Comparable counties, on the other hand, go away empty-handed.
Since 2018, the federal government has invested heavily in the maintenance and construction of roads in the Passau constituency of Federal Transport Minister Andreas Scheuer. This emerges from reports from the ministry to the Green budget politician Sven-Christian Kindler, reports the editorial network Germany.
According to this, from Scheuer’s inauguration in 2018 alone, 60.8 million euros flowed into the new building until the end of last year – that is 43.8 percent of all funds that have been spent on federal investments in new road construction in the district since 2005 – 138.7 million euros . Scheuer has won the direct mandate for the Bundestag in the constituency of Passau without interruption since 2005.
For comparison, Green politician Kindler had the figures for the Lower Saxony district of Gifhorn, which is comparable to Passau in terms of population and area, confirmed by the Federal Ministry of Transport. Since 2005, no federal funds have been spent on building new roads there. Total investment: 71.6 million euros for maintenance measures on federal roads or motorways.
130 million euros have gone to Passau alone since 2018
But the federal government in the Passau district was also more generous when it came to maintaining roads. A total of 215 million euros have flowed here since 2005, 69.5 million (32.3 percent) of this during Scheuer’s three-year term as Federal Transport Minister alone. Taken together for maintenance and new construction, the federal government invested 130.3 million euros in Scheuer’s constituency from 2018 to 2020 and thus almost 37 percent of the total expenditure of 354.5 million euros since 2005.
Green budget politician Kindler considers these numbers to be “conspicuous”. He says: “The CSU is abusing the Federal Ministry of Transport as a self-service shop.” As a CSU politician, Scheuer would have ensured that over the past 16 years more than 350 million euros in tax money was spent on road construction in his constituency. “Other districts in Germany that are comparable in terms of area and population go away empty-handed,” said Kindler. “Brazen, bolder, Scheuer.”
Kindler demands that the tax money should be invested where it is most beneficial for sustainable mobility – “and not where the CSU transport minister lives. The job of the federal transport minister is not a free ticket for a shameless’ Bayern-first” policy. “
The Green politician also relies on a query about road investments in the constituency of Scheuer’s predecessor Alexander Dobrindt from the CSU last year. Accordingly, the federal funds for road construction in the Bavarian districts of Garmisch-Partenkirchen and Weilheim-Schongau doubled during Dobrindt’s tenure as Federal Minister of Transport, and those for bridges even tripled.
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