2023-06-19 22:00:15
Issued Tuesday, June 20, 2023
Innsbruck (OTS) – A promise is a promise and will not be broken either: Because the pressure from the black Zillertal has fully gripped the Tyrolean ÖVP, the state government must now tackle the hydrogen concept for the Zillertalbahn.
Self-inflicted, politicians are increasingly giving up their creative will. And then becomes driven – because of the pressure from within their own ranks and from interest groups or simply because of the spreading dissatisfaction. The future of the Zillertalbahn and the conversion to an ecological form of propulsion are representative of the weaknesses in political decision-making processes. The resentment from the Zillertal is understandable, following all, the vision of a “hydrogen region” was of course supported by the ÖVP at federal and state level. Because important ÖVP grandees live in the Zillertal with the Chairman of the Farmers’ Union and Deputy Governor Josef Geisler, Head of the Economic Union Franz Hörl or the Mayor of Fügen and Member of the State Parliament Dominik Mainusch.
Lately, people have been joking smugly regarding the black “water-Zoff-Region” Zillertal. Because the Greens in the federal government are braking and traffic experts in the state are warning regarding the additional costs and possible risks of hydrogen technology for the 32-kilometer local railway. When it comes to mudflats, however, what is there is pecking. This is what the Zillertal tourism experts and the railway operators refer to, who at the same time are closely intertwined in terms of personnel. Finally, the black-green federal coalition as well as black-red in Tyrol are committed to the hydrogen-powered lighthouse project for sustainable and emission-free mobility in their government programs.
As the Irish writer George Bernard Shaw put it so aptly: “Success does not consist in not making mistakes, but in not making the same mistake a second time.” Only politicians promise something repeatedly and only then consider how they should do it can fulfill or implement the promise. In the case of the Zillertalbahn, the state government would have saved itself a lot of discussions if it had made it clear right away that the additional costs would have to be financed from the valley. Tourism has already taken appropriate decisions to increase the local tax.
On the other hand, the federal and state governments should also meet their obligations. It is not enough to rave regarding innovation in a public way, to even raise the hydrogen railway in the Zillertal to the government level and then secretly say goodbye to it.
The state government now had to give the green light because the pressure had become too great. Especially from the ÖVP. With Matrei in Osttirol and GemNova, the People’s Party and LH Toni Mattle have long been politically driven anyway.
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