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Speed ​​limit: Baerbock explains her plan in the ARD election arena - study shows facts about it

2021-09-08T06:50:22.364Z


Annalena Baerbock vehemently calls for a speed limit of 130 kilometers per hour - and is not alone in this. German motorways have long been a topic of election campaigns.


Annalena Baerbock vehemently calls for a speed limit of 130 kilometers per hour - and is not alone in this.

German motorways have long been a topic of election campaigns.

Lübeck - If the Greens should provide the chancellor after the federal election, it should be mandatory: the speed limit.

Chancellor candidate Annalena Baerbock made it very clear on Monday (September 6th) in the ARD election arena: “This is something I will campaign for.” A maximum speed of 130 kilometers per hour should apply on German autobahns.

Bundestag election: Baerbock wants to adhere to the demands of the speed limit

“You need rules in society, just as we have rules on the football field,” Baerbock replied to a question from a sales representative on the show. “Even with red we all stop.” The objection of the questioner that a speed limit with an increased volume of e-cars will take care of itself because energy has to be saved because of the batteries was not accepted by the Chancellor candidate of the Greens . There are now batteries with a range of 700 kilometers. "Therefore, in my opinion, it will not regulate itself," said the Greens chairwoman.

A speed limit - as it has been in many European countries for years - is not only good for the environment, but also for road safety, argued Baerbock.

In addition, a speed limit would in any case change less for German drivers than feared, since speed restrictions would already apply on many areas of Germany's roads and due to the high volume of traffic, in some cases, it would not be possible to drive any faster.

The sales representative even agreed with Baerbock, but noted that he was bothered by a speed limit "at around 3 a.m." if one could drive faster without a lot of traffic.

Speed ​​limit: Greens, SPD and Left for it - Union, FDP and AfD against it

The speed limit divides the parties in this federal election campaign.

CDU / CSU, FDP and AfD speak out clearly against the

idea supported by the SPD, the Left and the Greens

.

Transport Minister Andreas Scheuer (CSU), for example, said: "The argument for a general speed limit is a political instrument of struggle, for some even a fetish."

Incidentally, the word “speed limit” is avoided in the election manifesto of the Greens.

Instead, there is talk of a "security speed".

“In the next ten years, automobile traffic must finally make a major contribution to climate protection.

So far, emissions there have continued to rise, now a turnaround is needed.

To achieve climate neutrality, car traffic must decrease and at the same time become emission-free. "

Speed ​​limit: How much CO2 does Tempo 130 save?

A speed limit reduces noise, pollutants and carbon dioxide emissions, argue the Greens. The fact is: if you drive more slowly, less CO2 is emitted. But how much CO2 can be saved with Tempo 130? A study by the Federal Environment Agency was published at the beginning of 2020. The result: With a speed limit of 130 kilometers per hour, greenhouse gas emissions from traffic would decrease by 1.9 million tons of CO2 annually. At 120 km / h it would be 2.6 million tons and 100 km / h even 5.4 million. In 2018, fueling cars in Germany caused a total of 157.7 million tons of CO2 equivalents. 

Critics note that the Federal Environment Agency had expected outdated figures from 2014.

Since there are now more e-cars and newer vehicles tend to have lower fuel consumption, the effect could be less in reality.

Union Chancellor candidate Armin Laschet recently argued: "There are few routes in Germany on which you can drive faster than 130 during the day, so that a speed limit would have relatively little effect on CO2 emissions." A speed limit is "illogical".

The Bavarian Broadcasting Corporation recently reported in a fact check on the speed limit: "A speed limit does not save the climate, but it is a measure with which a lot can be achieved from an ecological point of view with little effort."

Speed ​​limit for more road safety?

"There is no one who can say that"

Another argument is traffic safety. Siegfried Brockmann, the head of accident research at the insurer, is skeptical about this. How exactly Tempo 130 would affect road safety has not been researched, he told

t-online

. There is little secure data. “From a scientific point of view, there is no one who can say what it will bring in concrete terms. Tempo 130 is therefore more of an arbitrary speed limit than one that can somehow be scientifically argued, ”says Brockmann. "Unfortunately, we only know for sure from science: If you drive more slowly, the stopping distances are shorter and the crash energy is smaller."

In 2017, 12.8 percent of German road deaths were on the autobahn.

409 people died there.

181 of them were killed in accidents in which motorists exceeded the maximum speed.

There are also studies that show that the number of accidents, fatalities and injuries is falling on roads with a speed limit.

Nevertheless, in terms of kilometers driven, motorways are the safest roads in Germany.

Video: Majority of Germans allegedly for speed limit 130: Will it come after the federal election in 2021?

In addition, Baerbock spoke out in the ARD election arena for a coal phase-out by 2030 instead of 2038. It is part of the honesty of politics to say that if the coal phase-out does not come until 2038, then Germany will not achieve its climate targets. In addition, the Greens want to increase the top tax rate - also to get more police out on the streets. Baerbock wants to use the wealth tax, which is also demanded by the Greens, primarily for education. Meanwhile, a lawyer took care of a somewhat curious situation during the live broadcast. He was fascinated by Baerbock's high heels - but then came up to a serious topic.

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Source: merkur

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