According to Left Party member of parliament Caren Lay, the electrification of railroad lines in Saxony has been at a standstill for years. She asked the federal government for figures on the state-owned rail network and compared them with the status five years ago. According to the politician, not a single kilometer of rail has been electrified during this time.
Of the current 2,118 kilometers of rail in Saxony, 1,109 kilometers have been electrified. In 2020, the status was exactly the same, except that the entire federally owned rail network was four kilometers longer at that time. The electrification rate is 52 percent. This puts Saxony well behind the national average of 61 percent.
Lay said he was "stunned" that nothing had happened in terms of electrification. For the major projects that have been under discussion for many years, such as the Leipzig - Chemnitz, Weißwasser - Görlitz or Dresden - Görlitz lines, there are still no concrete timetables, but only indications of current plans, she criticized.
