Benefit-cost ratio of the new construction or expansion of the railway line between Hamburg and Hanover

Summary

Original text of the question(s):<br /> <br /> To what extent does the federal government have its own findings on the results of the benefit-cost analysis of the four variants for the planned new construction or expansion of the rail line between Hamburg and Hanover that have been examined in depth by Deutsche Bahn AG (see here: www.hamburg-bremen-hannover.de/valuationmatrix.html), and to what extent does it maintain the benefit-cost ratio of only 1.02? Preferred variant that is sufficiently valid to base further planning on?<br /> <br /> When exactly does the Federal Government want to start engaging the German Bundestag with the planned new construction or expansion of the railway line between Hamburg and Hanover, and to what extent, in the Federal Government's legal opinion, would there still be a possibility for the German Bundestag given the low benefit-cost ratio of only 1.02 Scope to decide on additional, supra-legal core municipal demands (see: www.hamburg-bremen-hannover.de/parlamentarische-befassung.html; please explain)?<br /> <br /> When Deutsche Bahn AG examined the “yellow” and “blue” variants for the planned new or. Expansion of the rail line between Hamburg and Hanover (see here: www.hamburg-bremen-hannover.de/hannover-hamburg.html) assumes that the additional tracks will be built directly next to the existing route, and what type of intervention in the existing route would be that would lead to the significantly worse benefit-cost ratio of these two variants (cf. Committee document 20(15)159, response from the Federal Ministry of Transport to number 5.)?

Discovery translation for search and reading. The original official text remains authoritative.

Timeline

1. 12 September 2025

   Schriftliche Frage/Schriftliche Antwort

   Benefit-cost ratio of the new construction or expansion of the railway line between Hamburg and Hanover

   Source: BT

Votes

No vote records are attached yet.

Versions

No version snapshots stored. Document URLs remain at the source.

Documents

No documents linked.

Sponsors

No sponsors or actors listed by the source.

Related records

No cross-record relationships stored yet.