The A2 motorway in Kriens in the south of the city of Lucerne. (archive image)
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The city council wants to take a step forward in the discussion about a possible roofing of the planned bypass motorway in Kriens LU. He has applied to parliament for a special loan of 640,000 francs for the development of a corresponding project, as the municipality announced on Saturday.
The money is intended to be used to develop a concrete project from the visions of test planning, as the statement said. The federal government and canton would also contribute the same amount.
According to the city council, the next step in the process is expected to take place in 2024 and 2025. In-depth studies will show what structural measures are needed on the motorway and adjacent to it. Planning law issues, costs and financing should be clarified.
The federal government is planning a bypass
The federal government is planning a bypass or a new motorway section for transit traffic in Lucerne. The so-called bypass will lead through a 3.5 kilometer long tunnel between Ibach in the north of Lucerne and Kriens in the south. The current motorway is to be converted into a city motorway.
In Kriens, the 1.8 billion franc project initially sparked widespread resistance because the motorway between the bypass tunnel portal in Grosshof and the existing Schlund tunnel on the A2 would run openly through the residential area over a stretch of around one kilometer.
Kriens wants to demonstrate good will
Kriens does not want to fight the bypass project itself, but is campaigning for additional roofing on the new motorway. The federal government, the canton and the city of Kriens agreed in 2021 to examine the question of roofing and thus an upgrading of the settlement area in a separate procedure. The final report on the highway test planning is to be presented on January 12, 2024.
The special loan that has now been applied for is “a good sign that we have been able to develop a constructive climate of discussion over the course of the project so far, in which Kriens is not a supplicant, but an equal project partner,” said Mayor Christine Kaufmann-Wolf in the statement.
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2023-12-16 19:31:11
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