The Transport Committee votes in favor of the corresponding application, and improvements to the existing route are also planned
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Years of standstill in the planning of the rail connection between Hamburg and Hanover.
The Bundestag has set the course for a new route for the nationally important railway line between Hanover and Hamburg. The Transport Committee voted in favor of a corresponding motion. The railway can therefore continue to plan the new route. The draft resolution also provides for significant improvements to the existing route.
“We are ending the years-long standstill between Hamburg and Hanover and are finally bringing together new construction and improvements on the existing route,” said Isabel Cademartori, transport policy spokeswoman for the SPD parliamentary group. The entire Bundestag is scheduled to address the project on Thursday evening. According to the coalition, the approval is a formality.
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