2010

Press Releases 2010

• 1.
  Press release 30.12.2010

  Topic: Infrastructure

   

  Railway alliance presents Retro Award for 2010

  “The roads pay for more roads: a most stupid decision”

  

  Asphalt engenders asphalt? Ring-fenced money flow makes it possible.

  Berlin. The Pro-Rail Alliance has chosen the liberal-conservative coalition's decision to stipulate ring-fenced funding for the roads from 2011 as 'the most stupid transport-policy decision of 2010'. "The prize for the most retrogressive decision by the federal government can be quite …

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• 2.
  Press release 20.12.2010

  Topic: Passenger Service,  Safety

   

  Travel is 60 times safer by rail than car

  Passenger fatalities: ‘Vision Zero’ is already a reality for the railways

• 3.
  Press release 06.12.2010

  Topic: About us

   

  Pro-Rail Alliance elects new chairman

  EVG boss Alexander Kirchner succeeds Klaus-Dieter Hommel

• 4.
  Press release 01.12.2010

  Topic: Environment

   

  Cabinet decision: Environmental Report 2010 commits to modal shift

  Government wants to increase the railway’s market share

• 5.
  Press release 22.11.2010

  Topic: Cargo

   

  Statement of intent: shift traffic to the railways

  “Action Plan for Freight Transport is contradictory”

• 6.
  Press release 12.11.2010

  Topic: Infrastructure

   

  Minister presents review of demand planning

  “Railway projects are dramatically underfunded”

• 7.
  Press release 11.11.2010

  Topic: Cargo

   

  Accidents involving harmful water pollutants increasing in Germany

  “Hazardous freight belongs on the railways”

• 8.
  Press release 21.10.2010

  Topic: Passenger Service

   

  Competition to find the nicest railway employee

  Just how pleasant are Germany’s railways?

• 9.
  Press release 20.10.2010

  Topic: Cargo

   

  Rail associations warn government on one-sided policies favouring road transport

  No growth without the railways

• 10.
  Press release 15.10.2010

  Topic: Infrastructure

   

  Gotthard tunnelling completed / rail expansion in Germany lags behind

  “We have stars in our eyes when we look towards Switzerland.”