Political ticker: Acted quickly, test results for the hydrogen bus and heat spots
The city of Innsbruck acted quickly on the waste problem in the exhibition center. The test results of the hydrogen bus are to be quickly handed over to the members of the municipal council by the IVB. Measures against heat hotspots should be taken.
INNSBRUCK. The city of Innsbruck reacted quickly to the waste disposal problems in the exhibition center. The Innsbruck district newspapers reported extensively on the subject. A garbage container was desired, in which pizza boxes and the like. find place. Such a container has now been erected. At the same time Mayor Georg Willi states that he is also working on an interesting solution in cooperation with the pizzeria.
Test results hydrogen bus
The IVB have announced that a hydrogen-powered bus is currently being tested for the Innsbruck route network. The Innsbruck People’s Party has been demanding these test runs since the beginning of last year, WILL be recorded in a broadcast. To date, the IVB management has only used electric buses when testing alternative drive systems. In the spring, GR Christoph Appler therefore submitted an application to the municipal council that hydrogen buses should also be extensively tested in Innsbruck. This application was assigned to the City Senate. “I am pleased that our request is finally being implemented. Better late than never. After completing these test drives, the test results of the hydrogen bus belong to the IVB, but are quickly presented to the members of the municipal council. A turnaround in mobility in Innsbruck can only succeed without serious problems if there is a good and, above all, transparent information policy about the best forms of drive for buses of the next generation. It requires a constant and honest discussion with all political decision-makers and stakeholders about the core question of which fleet the IVB has to operate in order to be able to meet the requirements of the Road Vehicle Procurement Act in the near future. Before such a far-reaching decision to change the system can be made, all alternatives to the current state of the art must be explored and checked. A unilateral and hasty determination of the new, environmentally friendly forms of drive could have fatal consequences for public transport in and around the Tyrolean capital,” Apple demands for quick and transparent comparison results from the IVB.
“Hydrogen vehicles are already being used or tested in regular operation in numerous transport companies around the world. In Austria, Wiener Linien operate hydrogen buses, and they recently built their own hydrogen filling station with Wien Energie. The city of Wels is also testing hydrogen buses. Other cities around the Tyrolean capital have and had test hydrogen buses in use. Bolzano, Munich and Wuppertal should be mentioned here, for example.”informs Appler.
Measures against heat spots
The FPÖ Deputy Mayor Markus Lassenberger is surprised at the statement made by Mayor Georg Willi regarding heat hotspots in the Tyrolean capital. “Isn’t it the Innsbruck Greens, who prefer to make a concrete desert out of the green Bozner Platz, with meadows, flower beds and existing trees, and still get support from other parties,” argues Lassenberger. “Eduard-Wallnöfer-Platz was also once converted into a concrete park with the support of today’s green mayor, when he was still a member of the state parliament, he agreed to the project,” says Lassenberger, who said Willi’s British words verbatim: “I I believe in this place and am firmly convinced that the new concept will breathe life into the current backyard of Maria-Theresien-Strasse.” One should therefore ask oneself about the statements regarding the heat hotspots whether the mayor is here the population “Everyone must feel fooled,” counters the FPÖ deputy mayor to stop eating the ground.” Innsbruck’s squares need a reasonable green concept, which Lassenberger clearly includes: “Meadows are necessary, and not just a few trees, like the green plans for Currently plan to redesign Bozener Platz.”
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