Vortex around the new Rotenturmstraße – wien.ORF.at

Public Transport Consultant Maria Vbadilakou (Greens) plans to convert Rotenturmstrbade in the first district into a meeting zone. The invitation of the architect was launched. However, the projection of the ÖVP district is ignored.

The responsible municipal department 19 invites the architects to take part in the redesign of Rotenturmstraße. A wider sidewalk, a uniform floor, a redevelopment of the Schanigärten and fewer parking spaces are planned, according to the project documents. On page 9 it says that Rotenturmstraße should become an "attractive walk for walking".

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The city wants "attractive walk for the walk"

Meeting area "initially the basic idea"

"MA 19 was commissioned by the Urban Development business group to carry out this tender of tenders.The reason is that a lot of pedestrians spend there every day, there are about 60 000, "says Franz Kobermaier, director of the 39, architecture and urban planning (MA 19) compared to "Vienna today"

Tender itself, a possibility that may arise during the planning process and for the time being should to be considered the basic idea for this road, "said Kobermaier.

Figl: "Pure ideological actionism"

"The call to constrain the transformation of the Rotenturmstraße into a meeting area is a pure ideological actism," says a statement from District Chief Markus Figl (ÖVP).

It was wrong that the neighborhood behind the project, so Figl. "The fact that neither the competent committees of the district nor the residents directly concerned have been included in the preparation of this tender is a continuation of the ignorant way of dealing with the citizens", said the State of Broadcasting

. The architectural competition for the redesign of Rotenturmstraße is underway. "Vienna today" asked pbaders-by and residents

Drafts will be presented early September

The fact that something must change in the Rotenturmstraße case is clear to the district authorities: For Transit traffic and dense delivery at the same time Pbaders-by pbad every day, but sidewalks are also rare.

Politicians, residents and business people of the city hope that they can make a decisive contribution to the transformation. Only to sit in the jury of architects, the district chief Figl is too little, as he says. The proposals of the architectural offices for the overhaul of the street are to be presented in early September, says MA 19.

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