2024-10-30 14:59:00
Public transport investments are a good thing where the cost-benefit and the CO₂ balance are right. For 3 billion euros you could give everyone who lives in Salzburg a climate ticket for 40 years! A truly innovative public transport idea is a fleet of inexpensive on-call buses: minibuses that drive us from door to door like a taxi and let other passengers get on and off along the way. For 3 billion you could buy 100,000 electric buses (a hundred thousand).
Contrary to what the operator lobby claims, the S-Link tunnel would probably bring almost no traffic relief. The old town is already connected to the rail network via the S-Bahn in Mülln, Hallein-Salzburg has an excellent train connection, and Nonntal-Hauptbahnhof is the best served trolleybus route. It would be rather off-putting if everyone in Nonntal who arrived on bus number 3, 5, 6, 25 had to change to the planned subway to get to the main train station. The operators there are (probably optimistically) expecting around 1,000 passengers per day. From (at least) 3 billion we get around 100 euros for a trip, for 100 years.
Public transport expansion: Yes, of course. Subway under the old town: No!
Maria Lahninger, 5020 Salzburg
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