The fine reform in road transport would only lead to criticism. The cities and municipalities points to the wrong signals to the traffic participants by more severe penalties.
pushes the transport Minister Andres Scheuer by setting a fine reform on the road to criticism. Also, the towns and municipalities doubt the proportionality of the StVO amendment. the Gerd Landsberg , more of consideration and caution instead of harsher penalties.
Berlin/Munich – the President of The German Association of towns and municipalities Federal government has demanded a mitigation of the recently increased fine catalog . The new provisions in the road transport faced by many people in “total incomprehension” , said Gerd Landsberg, the Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung (Saturday edition).
increased traffic safety and fewer injuries and Deaths in road traffic would not be achieved by “more and more courses with the new and stricter rules”. More important is a traffic climate mutual respect and the standing caution , so Landsberg is.
Andreas Scheuers new fine catalog of towns and municipalities questioned the proportionality to
The new Vauxhall according to the Minister of transport, Andreas Scheuer on the path had brought, will be imposed for the first time, and possibly one-time Exceeding of the maximum speed to urban 21 km/h and extra-urban 26 km/h, a ban , said Landsberg. “You can ask whether it is really proportionate , if someone, perhaps many years ‘points-free’ risks and once such a violation is already a drive is assigned to prohibition.”
+ Gerd Landsberg criticized in the name of the cities and municipalities of the new catalog of fines.©dpa / Britta Pedersen
in addition, defendant Landsberg “excessive measures and ideological conflicts”. We no longer achieved the opposite, “if the people accept the rules or understand “. The battle for the space is to be conducted “very ideological”. It is important to bear in mind that all of the even more stringent commandments and prohibitions triggered a new bureaucracy and the control burden for cities and communities will always be bigger.
Andreas Scheuers Ministry of transport campaigned for a fine novel , which also includes a tougher punishment regarding rescue streets. In a Video that were published on Twitter, speak to emergency responders about your negative experience.
With the #StVO-Novelle is not the form, Block, or unauthorized Use of the #rescue lane even harder punished.
In telling the first responders, such as it is, being stuck in traffic
What we do for more #traffic safety? https://t.co/a6ZgwUbuOj#TagDerVerkehrssicherheit pic.twitter.com/5s1K5m6ZsJ— BMVI (@BMVI) June 20, 2020
towns and municipalities to Scheuers new catalog of fines: Less deaths on the roads
in addition, Landsberg argued in his critique that the balance sheet of the German transport policy of the round will be positive overall. “In the year 1970 there were 21.300 traffic-related deaths in East and West Germany; 2018 were 3.275 deaths in the Federal Republic of Germany,” said Landsberg.
at the end of April was entered into the amendment to the road traffic regulation (StVO) came into force. The new catalog of fines has provided for car drivers for “excitement”, said Minister of transport, Andreas Scheuer (CSU) recently. Therefore he wants the tougher penalties for Speeding again defuse .
Andreas Scheuer during his tenure as transport more often to criticism. Mainly because of the failed car toll Scheuer make hard accusations. Also, the debate about a possible scrappage scheme for cars, in order to support the economy in the Corona-crisis*, caused a sensation.
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