mobility

Vision Zero is not an abstract goal, but a concrete commitment: No one should be harmed in road traffic. Especially in a city like Wiesbaden, where many people are on foot, by bike or by bus, a transport policy that focuses on consideration and safety is needed.

Adequate speeds are key – they create time to react and save lives. Hazards affecting vulnerable road users must be systematically identified and eliminated, especially where children are on the road. Wherever possible, road spaces are designed to encourage slower and more attentive driving. On the main axes, safe and continuous guides are needed for cycling and walking.

Those who race or stage themselves with risky behaviour endanger others and oppose the common good – and are consistently stopped. Vision Zero succeeds when everyone participates: through a safety-consciously designed road space, through consideration, attention and the common will to take responsibility.

Wiesbaden is a city that can already be explored on foot today. Few moderate gradients, short paths and beautiful buildings, parks and green areas invite you to stroll. We want to make walking easier, more attractive and safer – for example through wider sidewalks, better crossings across roads and more space for pedestrians. We want traffic light circuits to be designed to run smoothly. Main roads should be crossed in a train. Walkways must be kept clear of false parkers, parked scooters and other obstacles so that they can also be easily used with a stroller, wheelchair or rollator. Accessibility is particularly important at crossings and stops.

We want to connect the city centre and the surrounding districts through attractive and easy-to-run paths, which are lined with shops and gastronomy and invite you to stroll and linger. Everyone benefits from the city's short distances.

We want cycling in Wiesbaden to be even easier, safer and fun, both within the city and in the surrounding area. We are driving the rapid cycling routes to Frankfurt and Mainz as well as other connections to the region. We want to close gaps in the cycling network in the city centre and in the suburbs and create more parking opportunities – including for cargo bikes. In the city center we want to set up a bicycle parking garage, for example in the market cellar, as soon as the city museum has found a new location.

The development of attractive, reliable and barrier-free local transport is a cornerstone of our transport policy. Public transport is a service of general interest and the prerequisite for many people to participate in society.

With the Urban Transport Plan 2030, a completely new bus network for our city was developed – mobility data-based and with a lot of citizen participation. Key points are a reliable metro bus network and better connections between the suburbs.

In order to further develop the planned base network with more supply to the target network, we want a new depot to be built. This is the prerequisite for the complete electrification of the ESWE transport fleet and the commissioning of larger E-double articulated buses for the metro bus network. In addition to contributing to the reduction of CO2 emissions, the use of electric buses is also accompanied by a significant reduction in noise and pollutants.

Even a perfectly developed bus network will not be enough for the demand of the future. A city the size of Wiesbaden will need more efficient means of transport than buses for the most important connections. We therefore want an open discussion on how this can be achieved. We Greens are convinced that a tram network will do this here, just as it works in many other cities. That is why we will work for it.

We want to design the car traffic in Wiesbaden in such a way that it becomes more compatible for our city and the quality of life increases. Car trips without a destination in Wiesbaden should be consistently diverted to the motorways. We want to relieve the burden on the residential areas by making it impossible to drive through them. Especially in professional traffic, car drivers and local residents benefit from the fact that gatekeeper's lamps dose the inflow of cars into the city in order to avoid congestion and clogging of intersections in the city centre. We want to extend the system to all major access roads. We consistently rely on the principle of ‘renovation before new construction’ in order to continue to deal with the maintenance jam on our roads. Therefore, we reject the further expansion of incendiary roads such as the Fichter bypass in Bierstadt. 

We want the city of Wiesbaden to further expand the e-charging stations and to facilitate the expansion of private charging stations, for example in garage rows.

We want to expand car sharing services as an alternative to our own car, so that there is an incentive for more people to do without their own car.

The space in the streets is limited. Therefore, we are committed to better use of the parking space for cars. We want to digitize resident parking and expand it to more areas. The fees are to be differentiated according to vehicle size, so that smaller vehicles can park cheaper than larger ones. In doing so, we want digital guest parking permits from the city of Wiesbaden to be made possible. Pickups, motorhomes and trucks should not receive resident parking permits. Traffic monitoring should take stronger action against false parking stops. On more private parking spaces we want to enable parking for local residents at night and on weekends. Thus, there will be more freedom for cycling and walking, as well as more greenery and life in the city.

Mobility starts with the little ones. Safe and attractive paths to daycare centers and schools are the first step towards independence. Children experience the world more consciously on their bikes or their own feet than on the back seats of a parent taxi. The basis for this is already laid during the construction of the schools, with forward-looking transport concepts and sustainable school route plans. With discounted tickets for pupils and well-connected schools and sports facilities, we are committed to enabling independent mobility and social participation for children and young people from all social classes.

A modern city has to meet many needs. It is a place for living, shopping, walking, celebrating, going out and much more. For this to work, however, it also requires coordinated logistics that supplies shops without transforming the pedestrian zone into a loading yard. We want to expand the charging zones in the city centre and at the same time ensure that they are not misused as occasional parking spaces. With the help of a one-way regulation, we want to make the morning supply of the pedestrian zone safer and less chaotic. The access is to be regulated more uniformly and secured with retractable bollards. Parcel stations help reduce delivery traffic.

We ensure that the construction of the Wallauer Spange is implemented and thus accelerate the journey to the airport by 15 minutes. The east of Wiesbaden is finally getting an attractive rail connection. The connection to Frankfurt is to be supplemented by direct trips without intermediate stops and thus become more convenient and reliable. Together with Land and RMV, we are pushing ahead with the reactivation of the Aartalbahn so that passenger trains can travel on this route again within the next few years. On the Ländchesbahn to Niedernhausen and Limburg, we want to enable more journeys per hour through further double-track sections. For this purpose, the RMV must be sufficiently financed by the state of Hesse.

We are committed to creating barrier-free access and transfer possibilities at other bus stops and at all stations. In particular, we want to make use of the expertise of the working group of Wiesbaden disability organisations. At Deutsche Bahn, we are committed to ensuring that the barrier-free conversion of the stations in the city area is consistently promoted. In addition to the already planned project in Mainz-Kastel, we are committed to the barrier-free crossing and access possibility at Wiesbaden-Ost station, which could be made possible, for example, by the re-establishment of the so-called farmers' bridge.

Children and adolescents from Wiesbaden can stay until their 18th birthday. Birthday use the public transport throughout Hesse and Mainz for only 15 € per month. Low-income families only pay €10. Despite the recent increase of the regular student ticket Hessen by the RMV to around € 32 per month, the city of Wiesbaden keeps the price of the WI15 ticket stable. In this way, families are specifically relieved in times of inflation and rising costs of living.

The bus network has been completely redesigned – data-based and with a lot of citizen participation. More tangential connections shorten travel times and increase stability in the center. Implementation will start in 2027. This means that people can travel faster between districts without having to travel through the city centre at all times, and bus transport becomes more resilient to traffic jams or construction sites – an important step towards reliable and attractive local transport.

In recent years, numerous bus stops in Wiesbaden have been converted into barrier-free facilities, including Waldstraße, Dyckerhoffstraße, Flachstraße, Kahle Mühle P+R and at the German Unity Square in Bleichstraße. Elevated curbs, widened stop areas and tactile guiding elements facilitate entry and exit for people with disabilities, senior citizens and families with strollers. Through the combination of state funds and urban funds, public transport in Wiesbaden is gradually becoming more inclusive, accessible and comfortable for everyone. In addition, numerous traffic lights are already equipped with acoustic signals, so that people with visual impairment can safely cross roads and intersections.

The environmental lanes are lanes on Wiesbaden's main traffic axes, which are reserved for environmentally friendly means of transport such as buses, bicycles and taxis. They ensure faster, smoother and climate-friendly transport – buses arrive more punctually, the changeover becomes more attractive and congestion is reduced. We remain committed to the preservation of environmental traces and the expansion of environmental traces in suitable places.

Parked bus and environmental tracks are an annoyance and brake the public transport. That's why we made sure that some of the city buses were equipped with front cameras. With the nationwide noticed project, the illegal parking of bus and environmental lanes can now be automatically reported and consistently punished. This reduces false parking and ensures that public transport users arrive at their destination on time.

We have provided for speed 40 on main axes and speed 30 in the rest of the city center area. This reduces noise, increases safety and improves the quality of life for all people in the city, in line with the inter-city initiative ‘Living cities through adequate speeds’.

Wiesbaden has invested in cycling: New bike paths, safe school bike paths and protected guided tours make the bike more and more a real alternative in everyday life.

Through our cycling campaign, the city is investing €10 per inhabitant per year to improve cycling. Thus, a variety of measures could be implemented and the city of Wiesbaden could become a catch-up in terms of bicycle friendliness:

For example, Lessingstraße and Mosbacher Straße were converted into cycle roads, the Elisabeth-Selbert-Schule was connected to Erich-Ollenhauer- and Willi-Werner-Straße with a safe cycle path or an attractive cycle connection between the Biebricher Rheinwiesen and the Schiersteiner Hafen with a great bridge connection to the Rettbergsaue and to Mainz was established.
In Bertramstraße and at Gustav-Stresemann-Ring, cycling meters were set up to show how many Wiesbadeners use the bike there.

With new pedestrian zones, the quality of life increases. The Court Street enlivens the district, the Mühlgasse became an attractive promenade and the Wellritzstraße now offers the much-needed open space for children, gastronomy and life in the inner Westend.

In this way, the city becomes a place where children can move and play freely and safely close to their place of residence, even in the urban area. In order to protect the residential quarters from through traffic, for example, in the Künstler- und Rheingauviertel, specific passage barriers and one-way regulations were introduced. Thus, the residential areas remain quiet, safe and worth living in.

The redesign of Nerostraße exemplifies how traffic calming and greening create more attractive urban spaces – for gastronomy, retail and the residents of inner-city districts.

Less through traffic, more quality of stay and housing create a city that turns to people.

In addition to buses, bicycles and foot traffic, climate-neutral mobility also requires the switch to electric drives. Wiesbaden is actively driving this change.

Climate protection also begins in the road area: The city relies on e-mobility, charging infrastructure and energy-efficient construction. For years, GRÜNE has been driving the expansion of electric mobility in our city not only by expanding the e-fleet in our buses, but also by expanding the charging infrastructure in public spaces. The new car park on Elsässer Platz is a pioneering mobility project: It offers 429 parking spaces with its own electric charging station, including eight fast charging stations. Thanks to the efficient design of the parking space and the bundling of parking spaces, the Alsatian square has been redesigned to create more space for quality of stay, green areas, play and recreation areas. The project shows how intelligent planning can create more space for people and less for parking cars without having to do without urban mobility by car.

 Parking spaces on private land, in multi-storey car parks and underground car parks were also better used at other locations and efficiently utilised through intelligent tariff design. In addition, more than 1,000 new Park & Ride pitches have been created, including the Schiersteiner Brücke and railway stations in cooperation with neighbouring municipalities.

In recent years, the Wiesbaden CarSharing offer has been significantly expanded: With around 200 vehicles at 95 locations, it is now possible to travel by car almost in the entire city area without a private car.

CarSharing is a good addition to bus, bike and foot traffic. From small cars to vans, you can find the right vehicle for your needs. Each CarSharing vehicle replaces up to ten private cars. This saves space in the district and creates real freedom of choice in terms of transport.

The e-scooters are also part of the cityscape. More than 4,000 of them are actively used – be it for shorter distances in the city or the ‘last mile’ when commuting by bus and train. This is not always conflict-free, but obviously an attractive addition to the mobility offer for many people. To ensure order and security, the city initially set up parking zones for e-scooters in the historic pentagon and at the main train station, thereby significantly reducing the problems – this system has proven its worth and will be further expanded if necessary.