Restrictions are under discussion in view of the energy crisis resulting from the Ukraine war. What they might look like in concrete terms is currently still open. Vienna has already spoken out in favor of less festive lighting at Christmas.
Mayor Klaus Luger (SP) is responsible for Linz, who let OÖN know from vacation that he will talk to business people about “what we are doing” when he returns next week. You still have enough time.
Even if he doesn’t want to anticipate the talks with City Ring and City Management, he considers suggestions such as turning off the lights by the hour or only turning them on on Sundays as “half-silver solutions”: “That’s symbolic politics.”
“All or nothing”
Since the Christmas lights in Landstrasse across the main square and the Nibelungen Bridge, in the main street and at the Südbahnhofmarkt have to be hung up separately, which takes several days, Luger wonders whether this work can be saved and the lights for this year exceptionally leaves right in the basement. “Either we do it all or not at all.”
City Councilor Doris Lang-Mayerhofer (VP), who is responsible for markets, is open and flexible when it comes to lighting the Christmas markets. Luger sees this lighting in a more differentiated way, because here the lights would be set up together with the huts.
Source: Nachrichten
