City toll in Munich: “Neither sensible nor fair”
Munich – The association Mobil in Germany, a strong representative of motorists’ interests, is now presenting what it says is the first study on the hotly debated topic of city tolls, in which motorists and non-motorists were interviewed. The results are clear, so mobile in Germany.
Munich: Study on the city toll with 1,100 participants
With a congestion charge, it would cost drivers money to drive into the city center. Of the 1,100 people surveyed, over 50 percent voted against the introduction of a city toll of six to eight euros within the Mittlerer Ring. 41 percent were in favor of it, nine percent said they had no opinion on the matter. Of the assumed 60 percent live in the city, 40 percent in the surrounding area up to 50 kilometers. A Sunday question also asked which party would vote for the election. Accordingly, FDP voters are least enthusiastic about a city toll, only 29 percent were in favor, 61 percent against it. Similarly for CSU supporters (36 percent for, 59 percent against). In the SPD, 43 percent were in favor, 50 percent against, and in the Greens, a whopping 70 percent are in favor and only 23 percent against.
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Michael Haberland, head of the automobile club and himself involved in the CSU, welcomes the results. The majority of Munich residents are clearly against a city toll, politicians should die as a reason to reconsider the goal. According to Haberland, pricing drivers is neither sensible nor fair and does not achieve the desired effect. Instead, they fuel the “enemy of the car”, which nevertheless remains “the number one means of transport” in Munich. In order to make traffic more efficient, there is a need for massive investments in public transport and parking garages.
City toll: “The last great weapon”?
A city toll for Munich – this proposal is discussed again and again. Most recently, for example, during the IAA auto show in September, where traffic experts from the Ifo Institute, the Technical University of Munich and the car manufacturer BMW advocated the introduction of a city toll in German cities. “It is the last major weapon to get the traffic problems under control,” said traffic engineering professor Klaus Bogenberger at the time.
Oliver Falck, head of the Ifo Center for Industrial Economics and New Technologies, added that a toll of six euros per day could reduce traffic in Munich by 23 percent. The income of 600 million euros annually could be used for public transport and compensation payments to low earners.
Munich was stuck in traffic for 79 hours in 2021
And the politics? Everyone agrees that there is a need for action. After all, Munich is still considered the traffic jam capital. The people of Munich were stuck in traffic for 79 hours in 2021. The CSU and the Greens were therefore open to a toll regulation last year. The SPD parliamentary group in the city council remained skeptical, because the experts’ proposal provided that no one, including local residents, should be exempted from paying the toll.
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