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– Horrible that a city council where the ODM is involved, is so little concerned about the noise and the quality of life of the people who live there, says the FRP politician.
In October, Nettavisen wrote about the residents of Manglerud on the eastern edge of Oslo, who have been waiting for more than 25 years for a tunnel that will take the crowded E6 underground.
But because the Oslo City Council, led by Lan Marie Berg (MDG), will no longer give priority to the tunnel, the entire project is on shaky ground.
Now the Progress Party believes the Storting must act.
– We are very clear that here we just have to make sure that planning continues. If the MDGs in the city hall are allowed to continue like this, then we just have to execute a state zoning plan and override them, Parliamentary representative and vice chairman of the Storting transport committee Bård Hoksrud (Frp) tells Nettavisen.
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– challenge the conservatives
Hoksrud believes that the E6 East project is incredibly important, also on a national level. So he asks his former partner in government, the Conservatives, to help him make the highway plans a reality.
– I challenge the conservatives to participate in this. We have been waiting 25 years for this tunnel and the Norwegian Public Roads Administration has been planning it for a long time. So now we have to go ahead and get started, he says.
In the alternative state budget of the Progress Party, which was presented on Monday, the road section, which includes a four-kilometer-long tunnel, is also a high priority.
The Storting calls on the government to ensure continued progress in planning the Manglerudtunnelen / E6 Oslo Øst project and to enter into a dialogue with the city of Oslo to put in place the necessary zoning plans. If necessary, a state zoning plan will be used », writes the party in the budget proposal.
However, when Nettavisen reported on the highway dispute in October, the Conservatives came out and proposed to the Labor Party in the Storting that the party secure a majority for the plans, and thus go against its own city hall in the capital.
– In fact, we have a majority, so we think it’s a bit strange. It’s a bit special that the Conservatives do this, but it’s probably to centrally challenge the Labor Party, Hoksrud says about it.
– It is awful
At the same time, the FRP politician denies that they control what people want locally.
– This is not a local crossing, for residents who want it, says Hoksrud, and refers to the conversations he had with neighbors and parents with children at the E6 school today, when he visited the place where the road will be built earlier this fall.
– I think it is really horrible that a city council in which the MDGs are involved, is so little concerned about noise and the quality of life of the people who live and work on the side of the road. So if the city council, led by the MDGs, continues to train, then we just have to drive, he believes.
See the answers to the MDGs below.
– But given that the highway will be financed in part by tolls, does the legislation require local authorities to support the project?
– There is nothing in the way that the Storting says that the path is so important that we adopt it, but then we must have money from the state, and we will. We don’t want tolls, says Hoksrud.
He says that they will follow up on the matter in the transport committee at the Storting, and that it will be a budgetary requirement from Frp that the road plans need to be carried out. They will also be clear that the project must be included in the National Transportation Plan (PNT), which will be presented in the spring.
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– The MDGs have an agenda
Hoksrud emphasizes that the highway project is of national importance.
– It is not just an Oslo highway, but a national highway that means a lot for commercial traffic in and out of Oslo.
– Where are you going to get that money from?
– If there is a will, there are opportunities. We spend a lot of money a day, so it’s money. It is also important for employment in the situation we are in now with the crown, he says, before it is launched against the anti-car policy of the MDGs in the capital:
– I feel that the Labor Party has given them a veto to say all they want about transport in Oslo. They have an agenda and they want the car to go, but some things you really depend on, Hoksrud says, adding:
– We cannot continue to sit and watch this, because the traffic will continue to grow no matter what is expected for the city hall. People completely depend on cars to improve their lives and on the business community to bring the products out, he says.
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Berg: – A declaration of war against the city’s air.
Councilor for the Environment and Transport Agency Lan Marie Berg (ODM) in Oslo, however, vigorously fights back the criticism.
– FRP clearly does not care about the environment or local democracy. If FRP tries to force another costly and environmentally hostile project into the Oslo area, it is a declaration of war on the city’s climate and air. A development on E6 Oslo East will pump cars and exhaust fumes in Oslo and pollute the air for asthmatics, children, young people and the elderly in our city, Berg writes in an email to Nettavisen.
Berg believes that the FRP policy is simply old-fashioned in its politics.
– The car-based urban planning that Frp advocates is outdated and polluting. Most people in Oslo travel by public transport, on foot or by bicycle. More highway only leads to more cars, more traffic jams, and pollution. Yet politicians like Bård Hoksrud have claimed for decades that new highways will solve traffic and our environmental problems, he writes, adding:
– At the same time, they have given the go-ahead for better noise protection, lower speed limits and less car traffic which can improve conditions for the inhabitants, and it is much cheaper than building expensive tunnels.
The ODM council has clear advice for Frp:
– They should spend time and money to get the government to lower public transport prices, finance the major public transport projects in Oslo that are not funded today, and build more bike lanes, so that the vast majority of those who travel without a car in Oslo can travel efficiently and economically. and respectful with the environment, writes Berg.
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Right: – It’s not serious
Conservatives in the Storting, on the other hand, are positive about the FRP proposal, but do not want to answer whether they will support a state invaded by the Oslo City Council.
– We want to make the Manglerud tunnel a reality, Oslo East deserves it. It will be a very important issue for us in the National Transport Plan, and if the Oslo City Council lands completely on its hind legs, we should not rule anything out. Fortunately, it will be negotiated with Frp at the Storting, Storting representative Stefan Heggelund (H) tells Nettavisen.
City council politician Nicolai Øyen Langfeldt (H) in Oslo, on the other hand, has no doubts:
– I agree with Hoksrud that if the local Labor Party still does not want the tunnel, then the state should implement the state regulation. It is in line with the Oslo Package 3 agreement of which the MDGs and the Labor Party are part, Langfeldt tells Nettavisen.
At the same time, he counterattacks Hoksrud, whom he believes is garbage in his proposal.
– I hope the FRP is more credible than it has been so far. They have been against the Oslo package 3, they are against tolls. It is not serious to promise billions of projects without coverage. FRP must recognize that for there to be a tunnel, parts of it must be financed with tolls, Langfeldt says.
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Price: 16 billion
The dispute over the E6 plans comes shortly after another major highway project received the green light, when a majority in the Labor Party parliamentary group voted for the E18 west of Oslo. A project that is also strongly opposed by the leader of the city council, Raymond Johansen (Labor Party) and the city council.
The E6 Oslo East project includes a section of approximately 15 kilometers of the current E6 between Klemetsrud and Trosterud in Oslo. After the city of Oslo determined the planning program for the road section in 2016, an expanded planning area was subsequently announced to study new alternative routes for the E6 in a tunnel under Manglerud, between Abildsø and the Ulven area. / Alna in Oslo.
The price of the project is estimated at NOK 16 billion. What remains for the project is a regulation of the tunnel and obtaining financing. In the 2016 Oslo Package 3 agreement, this is a priority project. The goal is to reduce the environmental impact of residential areas along E6 and Ring 3 by putting traffic underground.
The start of construction is planned in the period from 2024 to 2028.
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