So full of promise of the Name, stinky and controversial as it is: The rose garden road, which leads through the middle of the Zurich district of Wipkingen, is one of those axes in Zurich, about the most discussed. Currently in the Zurich cantonal Parliament, where the Parliament advises the project rose garden tram, and rose garden tunnel for around 1 billion Swiss francs.
The rose garden was promised more than its Name: a major portion of a trade axis. Accordingly, there was already the beginning of the 20th century. Century plans, the progress on the section between the Limmat and the way to overcome space. Say: of a little more than 400 meters above sea level on the hill on a good 70 meters higher.
trade route from the South to the North
Already in the Hallstatt period (800 to 450 BC) was the rose garden road part of the continental trade route. The witness of the coins finds at Bucheggplatz, as they had been spotted on the whole Route from South to North. These led from the Great St. Bernard into the Valais, the Grimsel and Brünig into the Mediterranean country and to the warehouses. In front of the lake you crossed in Wipkingen, the Limmat river to the North.
in 1844, a franchised ferry service transported people across the river Limmat. The bridge over the Limmat was built 30 years later and was the first between Baden and Zurich. In 1898, the tram bridge was built.
in the Beginning there was in Wipkingen separate bridges for trams and carriages over the river Limmat. The Church on the left had to be abandoned in 1910 due to high volume of traffic. Image: PD
After the turn of the century, the traffic increased on the axis. As a result, the village in 1910 had to cancel the old Church in Wipkingen. It was on the site of the present Viventa-school on the banks of the Limmat river.
A stand to overcome cable car with water
the slope to the Buchegg, planned in the 1920s, a funicular railway. This should be driven with water tanks and drove transport works, people, horses, and loads. In Freiburg, the only railway of this kind in Switzerland runs today. Built in 1899, better known under the name Funi, powered with waste water. The car in Wipkingen would have been fed with water, the beetle mountain source. A similar cable car project, it is up by the way, also once of the Limmat valley road in the woods. Both projects, however, were rejected again.
in 1934, is expanding the rose garden road and straightened. You tore off the gardener’s quarters, and the village of Alt-Wipkingen. Roads were considered as the veins of the economy. The number of Automobiles would one day grow in such a way, foresaw the Wipkinger population at that time.
resistance against the plague tangent
The city of Zurich and Zurich to say in 1965, ” Yes ” to the Expansion of the rose garden road. In a circle 10 around 4500 to 1200 votes. They should be developed as a temporary solution to the Western tangent, because the construction of the Ypsilon motorway had delayed the idea. Soon after the opening of the West bypass in 1972, the population is outraged Wipkingens. With so much traffic you had not expected. In the vernacular of the route is the section “pest tangent”.
100 years of the rose garden address:
In the years that followed, it comes to numerous protests. Of those in 1974, brings traffic to a standstill. In 1990, the first project of the waidhalde tunnel is launched. This should perform from Bucheggplatz under the Limmat and Toni node in the Pfingstweidstrasse lead. The second project waidhalde tunnel provides 2005 a shortened version of it. A 4-lane road would have to run beneath the railway viaduct, the beetle mountain line on the Limmat river. Today’s FDP councillor Carmen Walker Späh was Co-President of the Committee Pro waidhalde tunnel. They went out of 300 million Swiss francs construction costs for the Tunnel and was anticipating the opening 2022.
From Waidhalde – the rose garden tunnel
the Parliament of The Canton tunnel takes the Waidhalde with crossing the Limmat river in 2007, in the indicative plan. Because of the ground-water protection, the government sees the variant, but as a non-permit able.
in 2010, discards the city of Zurich’s voting public with a two-thirds majority of a Tram without a solution for the Road. Carmen Walker Späh, then FDP certain day, beats work 2012 on a Motion, which instructs the government to be binding, with the city a credit template for the waidhalde tunnel. The member of the Parliament called the Commission for planning and construction, submitted Motion.
The cantonal government and the city Council before 2013, the concept of the rose garden tunnel with a rose garden, tram. The district is opposed to the project split. The welcome, the appreciation of the district, the other can find the money correctly invested and call for a calming of the road with speed 30, light signals and Zebra stripes. (Tages-Anzeiger.ch/Newsnet)
Created: 04.02.2019, 09:36 PM
