Transport organisations want extra Mobility minister – NOS

For the connection in and between cities and to enhance the further growth of traffic congestion to prevent the Netherlands in the next cabinet, a minister of Mobility. Suggest that seven major carriers, automobile companies and transport organisations who have united in a new coalition.

In the coalition, the NS, the RAI association, Transport en Logistiek Nederland (TLN), ANWB, stadsvervoerders GVB, RET and HTM, the Federation of Mobiliteitsbedrijven the Netherlands (FMN) and Koninklijk Nederlands vervoer (KNV). They call upon other organisations to join the transportcoalitie.

The new minister should work alongside the minister of Infrastructure and the Environment. The organisations wish the minister a billion euros available for infrastructure, so in a manifest.

This money should be invested in better connections of intercity trains and buses, the head – and vaarwegennet and the approach of verkeersknelpunten. Also want the vervoerscoalitie that there is money available for better cycling infrastructure and green fuels.

Inadequate

In the manifesto warns the transportcoalitie that the Dutch infrastructure is inadequate, with congestion and delays. On the road take the delay to 2021 with 38 percent, as is the estimate.

the Rail laid in the past ten years, more than 20 percent more mileage. In the cities, the pressure on the transport system noticeably according to the organisations: the use of public transport in the cities increased by 5 percent.

The growing pressure on the infrastructure leads according to the manifest to more accidents, an increase in the number of deaths and a threat to the environment. The organizations want that smarter use is made of new technology to solve this problem.

Call

The movement denounces the fragmented investment programmes in the Netherlands and wants that there is large-scale investment programmes to be set up like that also exist in Paris, London and the German Rhine-Ruhr region.

Tasks combine

Minister Schultz of Infrastructure and the Environment is not directly in favour of a separate minister for mobility. “The good thing now is that the mobility combined with the environment and infrastructure. Whether we are with the bus or car, everything has an impact on the environment. So it’s good that that business is ministry go hand in hand.”