traffic

Toll promises being broken: Greens

UPDATE: The SPD told a paper on Monday that they will not agree to law reforms that entail "backdoor costs" to German motorists when road tolls come into affect on Autobahns.

Driving

Tolls definitely coming, say party leaders

Plans to charge users of German motorways have taken their own toll on the politicians who are pushing it through, but they refuse to back down.

tolls

Daimler and Telekom face billion-euro loss on road toll fiasco

Daimler and Deutsche Telekom may have to strike a billion-euro compensation deal with the government over the disastrous introduction of a truck road toll in Germany more than six years ago.

Taxes

Ifo's Sinn: Tolls on all German roadways would reduce traffic

Germany needs to institute a time- and location-dependent toll system on all streets to help cut the costs of too much traffic, said Hans-Werner Sinn, head of the influential Ifo economics institute, in an article published on Saturday.