’the City is a star, when everything glides smooth’, sang the popular Peter Belli from the aircraft seat in a DC-9 back in 1992.
Since the congestion around the capital has risen proportionately with the indfaldsvejenes width, and now, the politicians will then again make an effort to get traffic to slip.
the Government has this week presented a hovedstadsudspil, which puts up to build a new connection between Køge and Frederikssundmotorvejen and increase the capacity of the Ring 3, Ring 4, the øresund motorway, Amagermotorvejen and finally Frederikssundsmotorvejen.
Extensions must be with the government’s own words give Copenhagen a ‘shot in the arm’, but the problem is just that the citizens are not interested in more motorways.
It is a preliminary response, which the newspaper the Engineer has gained an insight into.
Hearing is a part of a kommuneplanstrategi, as the Copenhagen Municipality is currently in the process of making. In connection with this work have, according to the newspaper made a survey, where citizens and organizations have been asked how they would like to see, that the municipality develops.
And here it not even more and bigger highways, they would like to see from the flyvinduet, when the fog is lifting over Copenhagen.
No, the people of copenhagen dreaming in a much higher degree of fewer cars and more bikes, as well as that the building ‘does not happen without consideration for the existing qualities, green areas and identity’, which according to the Engineer stand in the preliminary hearing.
however, It is not the responsibility of the state to invest in more bike lanes and municipal roads in Copenhagen, points out the minister for transport mr Ole Birk Olesen (LA) opposite the newspaper.
– I do not agree that it is not in the copenhageners ‘ interest, that there is a good infrastructure to and from Copenhagen, but I must point out that the plan is for the capital, not only for the city of Copenhagen, the minister says to the Engineer.
In Halsnæs Municipality in north Zealand will be the government’s hovedstadsudspil also greeted with open arms by the mayor Steffen Jensen (S).
– I’m relieved and really pleased that you have chosen to give priority to both motorways (Frederikssund – and Hillerødmotorvejen, red.) in their response, for it is simply a necessity for our municipalities, he says to TV2 Lorry.
In the Municipality of Gladsaxe, Ring 3, Ring 4 and Hillerødmotorvejen runs through, gets played out, however, a somewhat more lukewarm reception.
– the Government’s proposal is a disaster for the northern omegnskommuner as the Midwest. More cars from the north, several cars from the south, several from the west. And they all need to together into and through the Midwest. It gives more congestion and more noise to the detriment of the already hard-pressed citizens, who live in the most densely populated areas, ” says mayor Trine Græse (S) according to the Engineer, in a press release.