Schwerin (dpa / mv) – From the point of view of the CDU parliamentary group, the state government is providing too little money for the renovation of bridges in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. “The 7.6 million euros set by the left-wing coalition in the double budget are just a drop in the bucket. Due to the rising construction costs, the country’s infrastructure is threatened with an increasing renovation backlog,” said the transport policy spokesman for the parliamentary group, Daniel Peters, on Monday in Schwerin.
He was reacting to a report in the “Ostseezeitung” (OZ), according to which, according to figures from the Ministry of Economic Affairs, 53 buildings will have to be renovated for a total of 82 million euros by 2035. This emerges from an answer to a request from the FDP parliamentary group in the state parliament.
According to the CDU, the red-red government should have retained, among other things, flat-rate infrastructure grants to the districts of 150 million euros. “However, money alone is not enough to quickly repair dilapidated bridges,” commented economic policy spokesman Wolfgang Waldmüller. He called for accelerated approval processes to be used more frequently and bureaucracy to be reduced.
