Carolabrücke in Dresden: Dispute over traces escalated before the city council election!

Carolabrücke in Dresden: Dispute over traces escalated before the city council election!

in Dresden, the course stands for the new carol bridge on the brink, and this ensures lively exchange among the city headers. Mayor Stephan Kühn (Greens) and Mayor Dirk Hilbert (FDP) intend to make a fundamental decision in the upcoming Juni meeting. The aim is to take part in this important transport connection by autumn 2029. The city suggests that the construction of a replacement is carried out in order to avoid lengthy planning processes that would be connected to the reconstruction of a historical bridge, such as the Sächsische.de reports.

In the background of these decisions, the tragic part of the Carol Bridge is on September 11, 2024, in which around 100 meters of the bridge plunged into the Elbe. An independent expert found that the massive damage to all bridge trains is due to the construction period. It is not possible to restart the non -collapsed parts, so that all bridge trains have to be torn down. There are two possible approaches for the reconstruction: a quick replacement building with moderate changes or a new building with more planning freedom, which could take additional three to six years, explains Dresden.de.

discussion about the number of lanes

The mayor does not want to commit to a certain number of lanes, but strives for a “needs -based bridge”. According to forecasts, a maximum of 30,500 cars per day should use the bridge, which would require at least two overdids or three lanes. While the business representatives are calling for a four -lane bridge, the CDU, Team Zastrow and FDP/Freie Bürger have agreed to develop an amendment that requires a quick implementation of the new building without a long planning approval procedure. Your coordination in the city council is for the 19th/20th Planned in June, whereby it must be approved so that the four traces for further planning are fixed, according to the reporting of Sächsische.de.

Such a development could endanger the funding, warns Mayor Kühn. Because, if four traces exceed the actual need, the approval of the funds is on the brink. City Councilor Stefan Engel from the SPD speaks out for the city's proposal, but emphasizes that he wants to contribute his own improvement ideas. The SPD even sees the new building of the bridge as the most important project in the city, while the Greens are committed to two traces with wide bike paths.

political arguments and diversity of opinion

The AfD has not yet made a clear position, but could agree to the Allianz's proposal, even if it currently does not have the majority in the city council. Holger Zastrow from Team Zastrow has talks with the AfD to gain broader support. In the meantime, a non -public meeting of the building committee is imminent in which the next steps are discussed.

In the context of ongoing discussions about bridge construction, it is important to know that in Germany there are a total of around 39,500 bridges on the network of the federal highways, most of them are made of steel and clamping concrete, reports [bmv.de] (https://www.bmv.de/shareddocs/de/artikel/stb/bruecken- figures-fakten.html). These statistics show that the challenge of modernizing and adapting the bridge infrastructure does not only affect Dresden, but is important nationwide.

A look at the Carol Bridge shows that the negotiations and decisions about the bridge are of great relevance for both the city's transport infrastructure and the political balance of power. The upcoming vote in the city council promises to become trend -setting for the future development of the bridge and the Dresden transport network.