Regional transport company Saxony

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The Landesverkehrsgesellschaft Sachsen (LVG) was the responsible authority for local rail passenger transport in the Free State of Saxony from 1996 to its dissolution in 1999 .

founding

With the implementation of the railway reform and the regionalization of the regional rail transport in Germany, the task of ensuring an adequate local transport supply was transferred to the federal states in 1995, in accordance with Section 1 of the Law on Regionalization of Local Public Transport ( Regionalisierunggesetz ), which have to regulate further details through state law. Saxony decided to let a state-owned company take over the function of the transport authority for a limited period until 2002 and only then to gradually transfer it to the municipal special-purpose associations that are still to be founded. At the time the new regional transport company was founded, the Zweckverband Verkehrsverbund Oberelbe (ZVOE), the Zweckverband Verkehrsverbund Oberlausitz-Niederschlesien (ZVON) and the Zweckverband ÖPNV Vogtland (ZVV) did not yet exist across the board.

With a share capital of 55,000 DM, the Free State therefore founded the Landesverkehrsgesellschaft as a GmbH in 1996 , which was 100% owned by the Free State. The participation of the existing special purpose associations and the municipalities should take place via the supervisory board, in which all special purpose associations and some district administrators were represented. Chairman was the then State Secretary in the Saxon State Ministry for Economic Affairs, Labor and Transport (SMWA) , Wolfgang Zeller .

The LVG office was set up in Dresden and Herwig Nowak was appointed managing director . The LVG had a maximum of eight employees.

activity

The following activities were defined as the LVG's task:

  • Ordering the services of local rail passenger transport for the Free State,
  • Make structural decisions, especially regarding infrastructure, for local rail passenger transport on the basis of the existing state planning requirements
  • Development of a nationally coordinated service for local rail transport that is coordinated with the other public transport authorities

During the short period of its existence, the LVG continued the transport contract signed by the Free State with DB AG in 1995 . On the basis of the specifications of the SMWA, it canceled local rail passenger transport for the timetable changes in 1997 on six, in 1998 on thirteen and in 1999 on three Saxon routes. These comprehensive attitudes on many Saxon branch lines were vehemently criticized by many districts as well as passenger and environmental associations such as Pro Bahn and VCD , as was the unwillingness to coordinate with neighboring authorities in Saxony-Anhalt and Brandenburg. In addition, inadequate or missing criteria for deciding whether to maintain or cancel local rail transport services were criticized.

resolution

The LVG was originally supposed to assume the function of the transport authority until 2002. On the part of the already existing special purpose associations and many municipalities, however, the decisions made over their heads caused considerable displeasure with the work of the LVG. It was only seen as the executive body of the SMWA, which would also delegate the unpopular decisions to the municipalities.

With the special purpose association for the Leipzig local traffic area (ZVNL) and the special purpose association Verkehrsverbund Mittelachsen (VMS), which both came into being in 1998, the special purpose associations provided for in accordance with the local public transport law existed for all of Saxony. After the ZVOE and the ZVON had already gradually taken over the function of the transport authority for their routes, the LVG also handed over the corresponding functions for central Saxony and the Leipzig area to the local associations at the end of 1998. In 1999 the LVG was finally dissolved and liquidated.

Planning for the start-up

On November 1, 2018, the Saxon State Minister for Economics, Labor and Transport, Martin Dulig , announced that the Saxon State Ministry for Economics, Labor and Transport would create the conditions for founding a new regional transport company. He justified this with the fact that he could not achieve the desired improvements in the Saxon public transport solely on the basis of the cooperation of the special purpose associations and the districts, in particular not the establishment of a nationwide so-called Plusbus network with regular traffic and the introduction of an inexpensive nationwide education ticket for schoolchildren and trainees. Unlike the former regional transport company , this should therefore not only be responsible for local rail passenger transport , but also for a bus network with nationwide importance, the implementation of the Saxony tariff as a roof tariff and the administration of the funds for the nationwide education ticket. A timeline for the implementation of the project was not given.

On February 13, 2019, the Saxon State Ministry for Economics, Labor and Transport , the Saxon District Association and the Saxon City and Municipal Association announced in a joint press release that they had made central agreements on the further development of Saxon public transport. These include in particular tariff offers for trainees and schoolchildren, the introduction of a Saxony tariff and an expansion of the PlusBus and TaktBus offers for Saxony. There was no longer any talk of founding a new regional transport company. According to media reports, factual issues were the focus again, no longer structural issues. Minister of State Dulig was satisfied with the result, only the SPD parliamentary group in the Saxon state parliament declared that it wanted to continue working on the goal of a regional transport company.

On October 1, 2019, the so-called “Saxony Tariff Competence Center” started its work in the offices of the VVO in Dresden. It goes back to a decision between the five special purpose associations and the Saxon state government to develop a common roof tariff for local public transport in Saxony. Financing is provided by the Saxon State Ministry for Economic Affairs, Labor and Transport.

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Regionalization Act (PDF; 24 kB)
  2. ↑ Public Transport Act Saxony, as of 2008 (PDF; 19 kB)
  3. ^ A b Saxon State Ministry of Finance: Participation Report 1998, p. 81
  4. ↑ Kerstin Eckstein, Gunnar Saft: The finance minister is now doing transport policy , Saxon newspaper of September 26, 1997
  5. ^ Frank von Meissner: Regionalization in Saxony: Abbruch Ost , in: PRO BAHN newspaper: The magazine of the passengers of public transport, issue 73: February - April 1998
  6. ↑ Volker Eichmann: Everything is new in May ... (or not), timetable change in Saxony , in: New ways. Information sheet from the VCD regional associations of Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia, issue 1/98, Leipzig 1998
  7. ^ Mitteldeutsche Zeitung of May 16, 1998: End for the Aue railway to Leipzig
  8. ↑ Kerstin Eckstein: The opposition is branding the railway "trick" , Sächsische Zeitung of October 1, 1997
  9. ↑ Christian Kerl: Between Jubilation and Horror , Free Press of October 1, 1997
  10. ^ Saxon State Ministry of Finance: Participation Report 2000, p. 58
  11. ↑ Transport Minister Dulig: "The new national company should provide modern and affordable local transport in the future". Saxon State Ministry for Economic Affairs, Labor and Transport , November 1, 2018, accessed on November 1, 2018 .
  12. ↑ Current agreements for the further development of the Saxon public transport. Saxon State Ministry for Economic Affairs, Labor and Transport , February 13, 2019, accessed on March 6, 2019 .
  13. ↑ Ministers and district administrators find a compromise on public transport, but do not get to the point. Leipziger Internet Zeitung , February 14, 2019, accessed on March 6, 2019 .
  14. ↑ VVO press release of October 4, 2019