Keystone-SDA
This content was published on October 03, 2024 – 06:30
(Keystone-SDA) There were delays in the transport of the first of eleven decommissioned trams from Bern to the Ukraine in Erlinsbach SO on Tuesday. The historic village fountain remains on the edge of the village square for the passage of another ten special transports.
The Bern transport company Bernmobil is donating eleven “Vevey” trams to the city of Lviv in western Ukraine. The first transport with a Polish truck went on Tuesday through the cantons of Solothurn and Aargau to the German border in Rheinfelden.
There was a delay in the village center of Erlinsbach SO because the village well was in the way, as the regional broadcaster TeleM1 first reported. In order to enable the passage of the 40-meter-long special transport, the six-ton basin of the village fountain was lifted aside with a crane in consultation with the municipal authorities.
“The fountain will remain on the edge of the village square until around the end of January,” said Beat Baumann, administrative manager of Erlinsbach SO, when asked by the Keystone-SDA news agency. The well was last removed in 2016 for a long-term planned, 60 meter long exceptional transport.
Before it was set up again at the roundabout on the village square, the fountain was prepared so that it could be removed with a crane in future cases, as Baumann said. Like the village of Erlinsbach SO, the village fountain is also a listed building.
The “Vevey” trams from Bern, together with trams from Zurich, will be used in Ukraine for another ten to twelve years, it is said. The transport to the war-torn country is organized and financed by the State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (Seco).
For the community of Erlinsbach SO, it was tolerable that the village fountain had to be temporarily removed, said Baumann. It is more important that the special transports can pass through unhindered and that there are no major traffic disruptions.
