German Unity Transport Projects
The German Reunification Transport Projects or German Unity Transport Projects (german: Verkehrsprojekte Deutsche Einheit), commonly known by their German initials VDE, are a set of major construction projects to increase and improve transport links between Eastern Germany, Eastern and Western Germany after German reunification. These projects are planned to positively impact regional development and infrastructure in the New states of Germany, new federal states and across the inner German border. Background Until the 1970s, East Germany (officially the German Democratic Republic or GDR) had not made any large-scale investment into its transport infrastructure. Many of its motorways, roads, and railways had not been upgraded since the 1940s (with the exception of some that were repaired in the 1950s as needed) and were largely neglected: trunk roads, the long-distance counterparts to the ''Bundesstraßen'' of the GDR, were still mostly unpaved in rural areas in 1990 and had num ...
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