Politicians from Eastern Saxony, together with the Ministry of Infrastructure, are making a new push to finally make progress on the electrification of the Dresden-Görlitz rail line. At the end of June, a cross-party parliamentary group was formed to advocate for the project at the federal level, according to the Görlitz District Office. Infrastructure Minister Regina Kraushaar (CDU) has taken on the role of patron.
“It’s not a pretty picture we have to paint: People have been talking about this line for more than twenty years,” Kraushaar explained. Yet it remains unelectrified to this day. It also remains a stumbling block for cross-border traffic to Poland.
