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Wolfgang Tiefensee

 

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Let’s enjoy urban mobility together!

The quality of life in our urban and rural areas…

15 February 2008 | By Wolfgang Tiefensee, German Federal Minister of Transport, Building and Urban Affairs

The quality of life in our urban and rural areas is directly related to the quality of local public transport. Local public transport in Germany is indispensable, for ecological reasons and to ensure mobility for everyone. This is true of both conurbations, with their dense networks of rapid transit systems,…

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German efficiency

Germany has a very efficient local public transport network, carrying…

27 September 2006 | By Wolfgang Tiefensee, German Federal Minister of Transport, building and Urban Affairs

Germany has a very efficient local public transport network, carrying around 27 million passengers every day. In purely mathematical terms, this is the equivalent of 19 million passenger car journeys. In some large towns and cities, buses, trams and trains account for over 50% of all passengers travelling to school…