Yesterday, the day that will go down as a climate choice in the history of the Canton – today, the cantonal Parliament has struck all on the left of the green concerns into the Wind, and the planned rose garden tunnel 102:64 votes approved. To 1.1 billion Swiss francs cost of the project was also a new tram connection between the Hardbrücke and Bucheggplatz in addition to a 2.3-kilometre-long Tunnel. Thus, the 600-Meter-long stretch between North road and buchegg to be relieved of the place from the noise.
For the proponents – in addition to the Civil also, the EPP – there is no Alternative to the two-Kilometer-long Tunnel. The current state is desolate, said Josef Wiederkehr (CVP) and Dietikon. For Sonja Rueff (FDP, Zurich), there is “no rational reason” to refuse the project. Christian Schucan (FDP Uetikon am see) sees the Tunnel as an environment-friendly project: electric cars needed roads, and congestion-causing more CO2 emissions than smooth flowing traffic.
“A sin of architecture replaced by a new one”
SP, Green and GLP saw the thing the other way; the rose garden tunnel to be backward-looking instead of the future. “How can this project of a reasonable relationship between the costs and Benefits of speak, is a mystery to me,” said Thomas Wirth (GLP, Hombrechtikon). Andrew Katuma (SP, Zürich) said the Tunnel will be a sin of architecture will be replaced with a new one and the city with traffic flooded.
Several SP-speakers have pointed out, the neighborhood was opposed to the Tunnel. An indication of the election result by Martin Neukom in Wipkingen, Kathy Ricklin (SP, Zürich) said: In the circuit 10 of the Green scored 5421 votes, and the Director of public economy and “Tunnel-nut” Carmen Walker Späh (FDP) distanced by almost 2000 votes.
the VCS is taking the Referendum
in addition to the cost of the 56’000 vehicles were once again a topic that should go through the Tunnel. The Bourgeois have had it rejected in the first reading, write the number to the law. The Zurich city Council had announced to reconsider his ” Yes ” to the Tunnel, at best. In the meantime, city and Council of government composed, as Carmen Walker Späh (FDP) said. It announced an operating agreement with the city, among other things, the modalities of the proposed traffic monitoring.
The last word is not spoken today, Yes the Kantonsrats. The Zurich municipal Council is aiming for a municipal referendum against the construction. And the VCS announced shortly after the decision to take the Referendum against the “expensive, and the city destructive tunnel project”. Come together 3000 valid signatures, the project comes to the ballot box. (Tages-Anzeiger)
Created: 25.03.2019, 13:06 Uhr
