The Union’s candidate for chancellor, Armin Laschet, rejects a speed limit of 130 in the climate debate. Critics therefore accuse him of ideological blinkers.
CDU boss Armin Laschet has spoken out against a speed limit of 130. “The key is to improve the technologies instead of leading nonsensical debates such as the one about a blanket speed limit,” said the Union Chancellor candidate to the editorial network Germany (RND).
“Why should an electric vehicle that does not cause CO2 emissions be allowed to drive faster than 130? That is illogical,” said Laschet. Incidentally, the average speed on motorways is already 117 km / h. The Union also rejects a general speed limit of 130 on motorways in the election manifesto.
Union meets with no to speed limit on criticism
However, Laschets Union is facing resistance with its no to a speed limit of 130 on motorways. “A speed limit on federal motorways would be a suitable and also inexpensive and easy to implement measure to increase road safety,” said the President of the German Road Safety Council (DVR), Walter Eichendorf. That way, fewer people would be killed or seriously injured.
Certainly, a speed limit on motorways does not have the same effect as, say, 80 km / h on narrow country roads. “For us, however, every human life counts,” added Eichendorf.
Ideological blinkers
There were also protests from the Greens, who expressly demand a speed limit of 130 on motorways in their election manifesto. “Tempo 130 is overdue. We would only catch up with what has long since proven itself in all other industrialized countries,” said Bundestag parliamentary group leader Anton Hofreiter to the RND. “Tempo 130 creates safety on the autobahn, increases its capacity, reduces energy consumption, noise, pollutants and greenhouse gas emissions. It also benefits electromobility, because e-cars are not designed for racing.”
Hofreiter accused Laschet of ideological blinkers. “At 130 km / h, society has long been ahead of Armin Laschet,” he said.
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