Synergetic effects:
history revisited At the end of their ten-year term, the public transport authority’s agreements were amended and re-concluded. The regional government was able to assert its longstanding demand to have sole authority over the funding of local transport. Decision makers in politics, administration, ministries, associations and public institutions used mobility surveys implemented by a Munich-based research institute as a source of information. And many of them were surprised by the insights that the surveys provided.
Citizens of major cities stated that their number one problem was traffic congestion. The majority of all road users were prepared, in the event of dispute, to give preference to the further extension of public transport networks over the further extension of the road network.
The appeal made by Rheinbahn directors to the people responsible for transport policy many years previously to invest in public transport as the only means of ensuring that the city’s businesses remained competitive and maintaining its citizens’ quality of life were confirmed once again.