State party conference: Berlin SPD rejects expansion of the A100 city motorway
With a large majority, the Berlin SPD spoke out against the expansion of the A100 city motorway in East Berlin. At the state party conference on Sunday evening, 64.35 percent of the delegates voted in favor of a corresponding application from the Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg district association, which calls for a planning stop and the waiver of the 17th construction phase. The two SPD state chairmen, Franziska Giffey and Raed Saleh, did not support this position before the party conference, but did not expressly take a position against it at the party conference itself.
Before the vote, which was attended by 230 delegates in the closing stages of the congress, there had been a full debate on the issue. The majority of the speakers opposed the controversial 17th construction phase. They argued a clear stop signal should be sent after federal plans to move ahead with highway construction. Such a concrete runway through Berlin is no longer up-to-date in view of climate change.
The FDP-led Federal Ministry of Transport announced at the end of March that it wanted to advance planning for the section from Treptower Park in the direction of Lichtenberg to Storkower Straße. On the other hand, the SPD, the Greens and the Left Party had agreed in the coalition agreement not to pursue the planning and construction of the 7th construction phase in the legislative period running until 2026.
However, that is no longer enough for the SPD MPs. They also reject a suggestion to refer all four applications made on the subject to the Mobility Expert Committee for further deliberation.
Broadcast: rbb24 inforadio, June 19, 2022, 8:40 p.m