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Special debate in the Business Group for Innovation, Urbanism and Mobility
Vienna (OTS / RK) – GRin Mag.a Angelika Pipal-Leixner (NEOS) spoke about “safety in public spaces, about safety on school routes”. Motor vehicle traffic is the main cause of CO2 emissions and, at the same time, requires the most space in public space. It is important to expand public transportation, as well as expand space for cyclists and walkers. Therefore, the red-rose coalition is planning new Bim connections in urban development areas and the outskirts. Existing S-Bahn tracks will also be expanded; test concepts are provided for this; In addition, there is a test concept for the new “urban cable cars”, for example to connect Penzing with Ottakring. “We want to expand public transportation and plan the streetcar lines beyond the city limits,” Pipal-Leixner said. Anyone dependent on the car must recognize the appeal of electric mobility, for example with the new charging stations. Also, there would be gaps in the bicycle lane network and “quadruple” the budget for the expansion of bicycle lanes in the city, said Pipal-Leixner. Trafficking is also “a feminist issue” because women often walk in Grätzel, for example, because they take children to school. “Those who can participate in active traffic with peace of mind” will get a better quality of life, said Pipal-Leixner for the cooperation in the districts. “Who builds the most bike lanes, who wins the Graetzel award,” said Pipal-Leixner, who announced a “district contest.”
GR Kilian Stark (Greens) spoke about “the greatest mobility lever in terms of climate protection”, namely traffic. The red-rose coalition has set itself “big goals, I think that’s good,” Stark said. These objectives “are good”, but concrete measures are lacking. The coalition newspaper overlooked “Specifics, you’ll have to step up,” Stark announced, “Greens will stick our fingers in the wound.” The NEOS had been “scammed”, in the districts of Vienna a “great exercise” is needed to make sustainable decisions. Now “bold and swift decisions” are needed on the issue of the climate crisis, Stark said. Vienna could be a pioneer, but also “learn from other metropolises,” for example through extensive parking space management and a “car-free city,” which “creates more space for people,” Stark said. The next step would have to be free public transportation in the Corona crisis – that would create more purchasing power, Stark said and applied for it. The number of traffic accidents must also be reduced: Stark applied for a “Vision Zero Traffic Accident” with a continuous speed of 30 “as the main lever.” In a third application, Stark introduced a “deactivation of the other party involved in the accident, trucks” with a right turn ban for trucks without “turn assistants”.
GR Wolfgang Kieslich (ÖVP) wanted to “withdraw for transport reasons” and mentioned the Greens: They are “good to work together” at the federal level, but there are differences of opinion at the municipal level. “Ten years of the green transportation department is more than enough for the city,” said Kieslich, who settled for “emerging nonsense and ingratiating customers with the Greens.” Likewise, “Tempo 30 is useless” in the entire area and the Lobau tunnel is necessary: ”Four factions defend it”, promoted Kieslich. He called for an expansion of the public transport system from Vienna to Lower Austria, such as the U3 and U4 metro lines, as well as “finally a zone model” for the management of parking spaces. For all his points, Kieslich made appropriate proposals.
GRin Barbara Novak, BA (SPÖ) recalled the topic of the debate: the budget. It is an “exciting department”: Smart City Wien combines urban planning with digitization. The new red-rose has fixed bureaucratization and a simpler and more citizen-friendly presentation of the flags. Kindergartens and schools are also increasingly supported with digital teaching methods, which were no less important during the homeschooling pandemic. Women’s policy is also the “top priority” in MA 01’s IT department, Novak said: gender and women-specific projects are planned here. Regarding the expansion of the bicycle lanes, an agreement with the individual districts is needed, but that fails due to political resistance from those districts “that are governed by the ÖVP like Döbling”, because it is important to “divide things so that we get something else. ” Novak.
GR Dipl.-Ing. Dr. Stefan Gara (NEOS) called the 365 euro annual public transport ticket “the best service in the world in this regard”. If Vienna made this offer for free, “400 million euros a year would be missing. That would not be socially fair, it would be a waste of money, ”said Gara. Regarding the Lobau tunnel, he referred to the statements of the former green deputy mayor Maria Vassilakou, who had already referred to “judicial decisions” in 2017. In the direction of the Greens, Gara said: “If stand up now and it says we’ve found another variant, so that’s not true. ” Instead, the NEOS would have “defined binding climate targets until 2040” with the SPÖ, with a binding exit from oil and Natural Gas and a “change of direction of transport, a change of heat,” says Gara.
GRin Dipl.-Ing. Huem Otero García (Verdes) urged the city government not to “hide behind beautiful headlines.” In the last ten years, red-green has shown how progressive politics can work, “that is, through progress rather than being realized”; Garcia listed several green transportation and climate projects in recent years in red-green. “Now you are playing with the lives of our children,” Garcia found emotional words towards NEOS and the city government. García pictorially asked the city councilor for innovation and intelligence Ulli Sima (SPÖ) to “take the bicycle” and not head towards climate collapse. (Cont.) Esl
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