The Federal Council wants to expand the Swiss network of motorways and massive. According to the “NZZ on Sunday” aims to be a new “long-term perspective on national roads” to a striking increase of the road capacity. According to the concept of the car is to be expanded pathways into and between the major cities on at least three lanes in each direction of travel. Also, new lines of Federal planning, according to the newspaper.
Existing motorways to Geneva, Lausanne or Basel should be extended to a ring system. Between the large, Bern, and Lucerne and Zurich rooms are to be built according to the “NZZ am Sonntag” new motorway sections.
“A throwback to the 1970s”
This concept is a lot of Controversy. “This is the largest highway expansion program in the history, a throwback to the 1970s, when they built without regard to air and noise pollution, roads,” said Green, President of Regula Rytz of the newspaper.
Civil transport policy-makers, however, are enthusiastic about the Federal Council’s Vision: “I can support these perspectives only because it is the goal must be to maintain the national road network efficiently,” says Thierry Burkart, FDP national councillor and Vice-President of TCS, the “NZZ on Sunday”.
Created: 06.01.2019, 07:40 PM
