Olischar/Juraczka ad connection rail Hietzing: link with suburban line, threatens to Red-fail Green

Historic opportunity on tangential connection Hietzing BV Kobald benefit: We keep fighting – to transport the new area of wild garden: planning failure of the city

Vienna (OTS) – In November, the municipal Council, the ÖVP has initiated the request for the link of connection railway and the suburban line was adopted in the West of Vienna, by all parties, and supported. „The Association of the connection track with the suburban line in Hietzing is an important transport policy issue for the North-West of Vienna, is a historic opportunity that must be used. Since all parties are in agreement. Is now connected to Red-Green, however, the negative response from councillor Vassilakou, what the link is about to fail“, so the ÖVP Vienna club Chairwoman and planning spokeswoman Elisabeth Olischar and transport spokesman Manfred Juraczka in the context of today’s transport Committee in the municipal Council.

The answer Vassilakous to the application shows how short-sighted with this very important topic will be dealt with. As it Vassilakou not formulated in your answer – the North-Western districts of Vienna were already „outstanding“ and the required link will not bring passenger growth, is understandable. „The fact is that there is no long-term traffic planning. The U6 is already running at capacity and can not be used as an Alternative to the required tangential connection with denser intervals seen,“ Olischar. For Hietzings district head of Silke Kobald the outcome of today’s transport Commission is incomprehensible: „This is a traffic-political Declaration of bankruptcy of the red-green Vienna’s city government. Support the SPÖ district chief of the boroughs of Penzing, rudolfsheim-fünfhaus, Ottakring, and Hernals, only a few days ago for a connection to the suburban line to Meidling to the Central station, may have been in the face of today’s development only a belated carnival joke. We will fight for the Hietzing inside and Hietzinger more.“

For discussions of a different project, namely the construction area of wild garden in Vienna Meidling made, because „from the beginning, had not been clear that the public bindings for the approximately 1100 residential units are sufficient. Now we have the answer in black and white,“ the transport spokesman. The response from the office of the Councilwoman, according to which no new S-Bahn Station is due to Overloading of the southern runway is currently possible, is an example of the planning failures of the city of Vienna. „The city would have had to consider the transport connections already in advance and plan. A planned traffic chaos is now inevitable“, writes Juraczka.

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