Tyrol and Bavaria do not always agree when it comes to transport – especially when it comes to transit. Now, however, Tyrolean Transport Minister René Zumtobel (SPÖ) and Bavarian Transport Minister Christian Bernreiter (CSU) are mobilizing together regarding the border controls between Bavaria and Austria that have been in place since the wave of migration in 2015.
In a letter to the two federal ministries in Berlin and Vienna, Zumtobel and Bernreiter called for “reviewing and optimizing” border controls, they said in a joint broadcast on Monday.
tax on traffic and citizens
According to Zumtobel and Bernreiter, it is about “better harmonization of safety requirements and the smoothest possible flow”. The traffic jams and obstacles resulting from the controls would burden cross-border public transport and irritate citizens, the Tyrolean State Transport Council justified the initiative: “We are therefore working together to ensure that the ministries of the interior of our two countries review the existing border exercise control together in attacks.”
“Border controls important, but…”
However, Bernreiter stressed that he still thinks border controls are “definitely sensible and important”. “But more energy must be used to keep the loss of time and comfort on road and rail as low as possible,” said the CSU minister, whose party was still a member of the federal government at the time of the measures.
Together Tyrol and Bavaria would therefore propose that the two federal ministries of the interior in Vienna and Berlin “exchange better and also involve the important players from transport and infrastructure”.
What about the ten-point plan?
And regarding the “ten-point plan” of the Berlin transit summit in the summer of 2019, Zumtobel and Bernreiter called for clarity and clarification on Monday. A “consolidated update” is needed on the status of the implementation of this plan, the Zumtobels office told the APA. One has already been processed, but now clarity is needed about the measures in the plan that affect the federal level.
One of them is the creation of a “working group on modes of transport”, about the existence or non-existence of which nothing is known at the moment. This should have been set up under the auspices of the two federal ministries. In any case, Tyrol and Bavaria demanded a “better information flow” from Vienna and Berlin.
Source: Krone
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