Is the dispute about the loftunnel in Vienna in a final round? The departing Minister of Environment Leonore Gewessler (Greens) could finally make the project to match as a farewell gift. The tunnel is the worst solution, according to a report of 500 pages.
The report is the “Strategic Testing Transport” (SP-V) initiated by Gewessler in 2022 to the Lobaut Tunnel, which has been around since Wednesday. It is recommended to remove the project from the law, because the result of the study shows that the variant is intended in the “Federal Refose Act in almost all matters investigated is subordinate to the alternatives.”
Tunnel would lead to greater stress
This proposal was the result of one of the three alternatives investigated. An evaluation of the S1 between Schwechat and Süßenbrunn, which was published on behalf of the BMK and three years ago, showed that the implementation of road construction and the tunnel “causes extra traffic loads and therefore leads to negative effects on the environment, climate and climate The spatial structures, “said it in the SP-V report.
Report: Tunnel variant worst solution
There was no way to bypass the removal of the Lobau -Velweg of the Federal Refission Act, said Lukas Hammer, Traffic and Environmental spokesperson for the Greens, on the occasion of the publication. It has also been clarified at the technical level that “we can better manage the mobility and climate-political challenges of the future than with this concrete project from the last century,” Hammer said about the alternative proposal with the expansion of public transport and the track freight traffic.
Most expensive solution with the most negative effects
On more than 500 pages, the report of the planned Lobau Autobahn and their alternatives, among other things, investigated the report prepared by the Federal Environment Agency in collaboration with the Technical University of Graz and TU Vienna.
He also shows that “the loft tunnel of the four variants tested is not only the most expensive and has the biggest negative effects on the environment and the population, but also the worst variant is from a mobility perspective,” said a explanation of the mobility organization VCö.
WWF warns a grave of billion dollars
Organizations for environmental protection welcomed the recommendation of Gewessler in the project. “With the expansion of public transport, more favorable and better alternatives are clear” with the costs of 2.4 billion euros can be expected.
“At the same time, the test experts expect that the southeastern tangent line (A23) would only enlighten a little, but even increase the traffic tax, especially in the districts north of the Danube,” the WWF continued. “Now there are better alternatives at the table. The upcoming government is obliged to take the situation seriously and to remove the tunnel from the federal road legislation once and for all, ”was quoted in Greenpeace in Austria.
Source: Krone
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