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– This is a big problem, says Frp, and asks the city council to clean up.
SAGENE (Nettavisen): In September last year, the new bike lanes were ready for use at Bentsebrugata in Sagene in Oslo. But a year later, the red fields are dug up again.
The reason is that a new district heating line will be installed for a high school to be built in the former industrial zone at Treschows gate 16, writes Sagene Avis.
Watch the video of the excavation on top of the box.
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Now the Progress Party is reacting strongly to the overturning of the street.
– They should have been able to clarify this before leaving the bike lanes, because they have known for a long time that that school must come, says city council policy Camilla Wilhelmsen (Frp) to Nettavisen, noting:
– What has happened here simply shows that the City Council and the Urban Environment Agency do not have good enough systems.
AGAIN: The new bike lanes at Bentsebrudgata in Sagene in Oslo were built a year ago, but now it looks like this on the street with a bulldozer in full swing digging the road again to add district heating.
Photo: Jørgen Berge (Nettavisen)
Poorly coordinated
Wilhelmsen emphasizes that this can happen at times, but believes that in this case it should have been possible to better coordinate the excavation work.
– It should have been coordinated in a much better way than having to excavate the bike lanes soon after they were built, she says.
ANSWER: Now there are deep wells in the street, where there were bike lanes. The Progress Party is now reacting to the coordination of the excavation work.
Photo: Jørgen Berge (Nettavisen)
Until October, residents of the area, cyclists and motorists have to depend on congestion and noise from the roads. Like a year ago. But this time Undervisningsbygg is responsible for the work, and not the Urban Environment Agency.
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Wilhelmsen believes, however, that the responsibility lies with the Urban Environment Agency and the Councilor of the Environment and Transport Agency, Lan Marie Berg (MDG), who is the head of the agency.
– It is the Urban Environment Agency that will coordinate with the other agencies. I hope the city council will follow up on this, says the FRP politician.
BIG PROBLEM: City council policy Camilla Wilhelmsen (Frp) believes that the excavation works at Bentsebrugata should have been better coordinated, so that they would have avoided re-excavating on the street. She believes that this is a big problem and it occurs in many places in Oslo.
Photo: Jørgen Berge (Nettavisen)
The agency: – You are never lucky
The Urban Environment Agency is referring to Undervisningsbygg, who is behind the project, and just wants to give a general comment on the matter:
– As a general comment, we can say that it is never lucky to update and then start digging again. We work to coordinate the needs and plans of all actors in Oslo, so that it can be avoided as often as possible. But it’s not always possible to predict what will be prioritized by projects, and then you get this kind of double excavation, says communications director Richard Kongsteien of the Nettavisen Urban Environment Agency.
NOT LUCKY: – As a general comment, we can say that it is never lucky to upgrade and then start digging again, says communications director Richard Kongsteien of the Nettavisen Urban Environment Agency.
Photo: Widerøe
The new secondary school in Sagene will be completed in 2023 and is estimated to cost between 150 and 200 million crowns. The school will accommodate 540 students in grades eight through ten.
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– its a big problem
Wilhelmsen notes that the excavation at Sagene is far from unique.
– I’d say it’s a big problem. These are expensive projects, and now we see that it is street after street that is dug after digging, he says.
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He says the same has happened in Frognerveien and Bostadveien.
– It was also dug up again shortly after its completion, says Wilhelmsen, who recently put a written question to Councilor Berg on precisely these matters.
– Besides the cost it has, it also has the consequence that the street or sidewalk will be closed for a while. This shows that from a socioeconomic perspective, this is a burden, he says.
REPEAT: Excavation work at Sagene will be completed in October, and in the meantime, buses and other road users must surround the construction area. In the same way as just a year ago.
Photo: Jørgen Berge (Nettavisen)
55 parking spaces were eliminated
Last year, the Urban Environment Agency built a total of 400 meters of red bike lanes on both sides of Bentsebrugata, which provided a direct connection on the bike lane network between Bjølsen / Sagene and Torshov. At the same time, 55 parking spaces were eliminated on the street, between Sandakerveien and Advokat Dehlis plass.
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“Own bike lanes in Bentsebrugata will improve accessibility and traffic safety for cyclists. Bike lanes will reduce the extent of sidewalk bicycle use and therefore improve conditions for pedestrians. Crossing measures will shorten the crossing distance for pedestrians and reduce the speed of automobile traffic, which will improve traffic safety for pedestrians.»Wrote the Urban Environment Agency about the project.
BICYCLE NETWORK: Here you can see the various city bike routes that will be established and connected to a continuous network of bike roads in Oslo.
Photo: Urban Environment Agency (Oslo Municipality)
The project is part of the red-green city council’s largest bicycle investment. A total of 530 kilometers will be organized for cyclists. The price of the entire cycle lane network is estimated at NOK 8.5 billion.
The online newspaper has asked Undervisningsbygg and the environment and transport council Lan Marie Berg for a comment on the case, but they have yet to respond.
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