Onay calls there no alternative to a new railway line between Hamburg and Hanover

Hanover's mayor Belit Onay (Greens) sees a new railway line between Hamburg and Hanover as “no alternative”. “Finally good news from Berlin,” Onay commented on the current developments in the ongoing dispute over the important railway line in the north.

It had previously become known that the responsible transport politicians from the black-red coalition in the Bundestag were in favor of a new building instead of an expansion in a draft resolution. The paper is available to the German Press Agency.

The new building has not yet been decided. The coalition says the draft is still being worked on. The Bundestag's transport committee is scheduled to deal with the new line planned by the railway on September 23rd. The committee and a day later the plenary session of the Bundestag should clear the way so that the railway can continue to specifically plan the new line.

"There is no alternative to the new route. Hanover and the entire north - whether urban or rural - will benefit from it," said Onay three days after the local elections in Lower Saxony. The Green politician added: “It is significant, however, that the black and red parties could not bring themselves to communicate transparently and honestly before the local elections.”

Onay will go into a runoff election against the SPD candidate Axel von der Ohe on September 27th in the fight for the mayor's office in the Lower Saxony state capital. Onay received 45.6 percent of the vote in the first round on Sunday, while von der Ohe received 21.5 percent.