SP parliamentary group: “Transport concept takes no account of local opinion”

The Windischer SP resident council group comments on the loan for the project «Urban area urban space, Brugg Windisch station». A revision of the traffic concept seems necessary.

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The project “Regional development urban space Bahnhof Brugg Windisch” in the Windischer SP parliamentary group led to controversial discussions about how the next steps should be chosen so as not to jeopardize the credit and the timing of the project, but nevertheless the wishes for participation to be able to contribute.

The development project for the area around the train station was launched by the municipalities of Brugg and Windisch. According to the plan, a lively quarter with up to 2,000 residents and 3,000 jobs is to be gradually built in the center.

The community share of 60,000 francs is now up for debate in the Windischer residents’ council for the next step, in which the population is invited to participate.

SP understands participation as co-determination from the start

“All in all, it had to be noted with astonishment that, especially on the subject of the transport concept, important basic decisions have already been made and participation is only now being talked about,” the SP notes in the group report. The planned traffic concept does not take local opinion into account: with the statement of the residents’ council from January 2020 with the demand for the industrial connection cable factory to be abandoned and for the Oase bypass road to be routed underground to the southwest bypass.

The SP understands participation, it goes on, as co-determination of those affected – neighborhood population, road users of public transport, individual motorized and slow traffic with bicycles and pedestrians – from the beginning of the work, “not just participation as a recipient of information about decisions made”. The parliamentary group considers the current concept for traffic development to be too one-sided, with the basic assumption of a significantly higher increase in motorized individual traffic than in public and bicycle / pedestrian traffic – “and this in the immediate vicinity of a large train station”.

Group wants to seek discussion for an optimal solution

“A revision of the transport concept seems necessary to us, with a broader opening for other ideas and solutions, with a better focus on the future,” the group notes. The parliamentary group wants to talk to other parliamentary groups and jointly find a solution that is “optimal for everyone”. (mhu)

City Council Wednesday, June 16 and 23, 7 p.m., campus hall.