The fact that the trenches are deep in transport policy is nothing new. Just now I'm on the website of the day pushed scoreboard on the comment of a reader that is so wrong that he deserves a mention on my blog.
the occasion offered an article on a postulate of the Greens to stop Sihlhochstrasse : This monster of steel and concrete was 1974, when the car is still a blessing for humanity and saw the engine of progress, created as part of a highway. Here, the Sihl was virtually "capped" because the motorway was to pass over the river and through the middle of residential neighborhoods to the station and continue to speak in the direction of Rose Garden or west bypass (by two more, in need of rehabilitation planning bodies within the city limits, where the quality of living safely sacrificed to the mobility mania been) is to be drawn.
been realized, fortunately NIE: The Y-city highway, here as a project outline before Sihlpost - and thus directly to the main station.
Fortunately, this equally megalomaniac like auto-mane bad planning has never been implemented - and it preserved the Sihlhochstrasse an appendix to a main highway where the traffic is rolling haltingly about decades in the city. Sharp tongues soon felt that nothing rhymes Brunau not to jam. The fact that the columns coming from the highway is often blocked the exits of the central depot of the urban rush, was another design error, one could leave you speechless.
typical image in the Brunau Backwater at the end of the highway. The gray building is left behind by the way the fire service depot.
Now that will be completed including Üetlibergtunnel finite, and for many billions of francs, the Western Bypass of Zurich was able to, is the raison d'etre of this relic of only on the car-oriented planning blunder ( the history of the Y is fully informed by the NZZ in an article and surprisingly balanced and critically dealt ) no longer exists. And that is why the Greens are now demanding to tear down in the interest of creating green spaces and an appreciation of the neighborhood around the Brunau that Sihlhochstrasse.
formed in the comment columns of the Tages-Anzeiger, however, already the resistance of car-commuters against the demolition of this architectural sin. And it expresses a very bold lady, but she says in the quote:
The city of Zurich no green spaces and recreation facilities needed. The city of Zurich requires more roads and parking lots. All those who need to relax, take a bike and take public transportation to the country.
Right, Mrs. Huber! The city of Zurich is just a shuttle service between the cottage in the country and the well-paid job in the city. The riff-raff, the audacity to live in this city, pardon traffic and parking area shall not be entitled to more rest, less emissions, or no green areas or open spaces, are to become obese children growing up in the city still lack of sports fields.
top cover of the highway, with its concrete stilts, down the river: The Sihlhochstrasse here before the city limits.
all very wrong-headed, and a proof that this fixed on the private car thinking is not yet extinct. Even I say: As long as the commuter traffic in two out of three cars, only one person sits, the number of parking spaces in Zurich are more likely to reduce further. And needs more roads and certainly not do it. The city is for living, at least for just under 300,000 people.
Anyone depth wayward with the traffic planning around will employ around the Ypsilon, which is the corresponding thread in the forum recommended SykscraperCity - there's a lot of links.
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