Following the announcement by Transport Minister Leonore Gewessler (Grne) that the Asfinag road plans will be evaluated by autumn, including the bypass ring in northeast Vienna including the Lobau tunnel, Federal Chancellor Sebastian Kurz (VP) spoke up on Friday. Compared to noe.ORF.at and “Kurier”, he stated that he was on the side of the federal states and the eastern region on this issue, i.e. that he was in favor of implementing the projects.
Vienna. “We need a good infrastructure, especially in rural areas,” argued the Chancellor. He was “very optimistic that common sense will prevail,” because the matter is long-term projects and the matter is very clear. Since the Environment and Transport Ministry announced the review of the new building projects on Thursday last week, there has been political headwinds, including finance minister and VP Vienna boss Gernot Blmel or Vienna’s mayor Michael Ludwig (SP) criticizing the possibility of stopping the bypass ring Northeast Vienna, Ludwig threatened legal action in the event of a stop. Overall, however, projects in seven federal states are affected.
Wolfgang Rehm, spokesman for the environmental organization Virus, which is naturally one of the critics of the expansion plans, commented on the statement made by the Federal Chancellor on Friday in a broadcast that it was not surprising “that Kurz here represents the climate killer rather than the climate chancellor, Austria’s climate Commitments would require of him, but he stands in the way of the future and the preservation of the basis of life. “
Environment Minister Gewessler sees the basis for further decisions only after the evaluation has been completed in autumn. “It can also be a decision that we now figure it out, decisions that we initiated ten, 20, 30 years ago, that perhaps from today’s perspective are no longer as sensible as they were 30 years ago,” said them on Thursday in the morning journal.
