Infrastructure dispute – Mikl-Leitner on the Gewessler era: “Lost years”

ÖVP Chancellor Karl Nehammer is inviting people to a press conference on Monday under the theme “Growth through infrastructure expansion.” According to reports, Prime Minister Nehammer will call for a rethink of infrastructure policy and insist on sticking to legally established projects, such as the construction of the Lobau tunnel. “Away from everything that should not be built and towards a debate about what should be built. Less ideology, more realism,” say people around the ÖVP.

Transport routes as a basis for competitiveness
Austria’s most powerful ÖVP politician Johanna Mikl-Leitner is even more specific. In an interview with the “Krone” she criticized the term of office of the Minister of Green Transport, Leonore Gewessler, “as wasted years for the expansion of the infrastructure”. Well-developed transport routes ultimately form the basis for international business locations and thus for the competitiveness of the location.

“And you also see in Germany what happens when you neglect road construction: a gradual loss of prosperity. “It will have to be one of the priority tasks of the next federal government under the leadership of Chancellor Karl Nehammer to eradicate these failures,” says the state leader. Not only the S8 and S34 must finally be realized, but also the S1 and the Lobautunnel.

The state governor criticized that motorists in the affected areas have suffered long enough from “misguided and law-forgetful traffic policies that turn a blind eye to reality, ignore laws and only cause traffic jams and commuter frustration.”