2024-05-19 15:03:53
At their conference in Augšpurk, Bavaria, the Sudeten Germans harshly criticized the state of the transport connection between Bavaria and the Czech Republic. The best political consultant of the Sudeten Germans, Bernd Posselt, acknowledged that the federal governments have been neglecting the reference to the Czech Republic for a very long time. Representatives of the Bavarian authorities, together with state prime minister Markus Söder, specific themselves in the identical means.
“After I go from Strasbourg to Paris, the prepare takes one hour and forty-six minutes,” Posselt stated of the roughly 440-kilometer route. If folks determine to take the prepare from Prague to Munich, they want about six hours for the 410-kilometer journey. “One wants extra persistence than within the days of Emperor Franz Joseph,” wrote the Sudeten German every day Sudetendeutsche Zeitung on the topic.
In keeping with Posselt, after 35 years because the fall of the Iron Curtain and 20 years because the Czech Republic joined the European Union, it’s insupportable how Berlin neglects transport hyperlinks with Czech nations. “We instantly want a transport program of Central European unification, in addition to extra frequent and quicker prepare connections to Prague,” he stated. Posselt additionally calls for enhancements on the railway to Cheb.
Posselt talked about the latest issues on the road from Munich to Prague, when the police needed to clear an overcrowded prepare. “And that is solely as a result of three concert events have been held in Prague,” he stated.
Posselt already spoke concerning the poor railway connection between the Czech Republic and Bavaria on Friday at a press convention earlier than the beginning of the conference. “It is a disgrace, an actual disgrace,” he stated.
Representatives of financial chambers and municipalities from each side of the Czech, Bavarian and Saxony borders are additionally interesting for the acceleration of electrification and modernization of tracks within the Czech-German border. Originally of Might, they signed a joint declaration by which they encourage the Czech and German federal ministries to affect the routes between Dresden and Zhorelec and between Cheb and the city of Marktredwitz, in addition to to finish the so-called Franco-Saxon freeway between Nuremberg and Marktredwitz. In the meantime, the Czech Republic is modernizing the road from Pilsen by Domažlice to the border with Bavaria.