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Wiener Linien plans �471mn investment

By Lisa Chapman

Vienna�s public transport agency is to invest 471 million Euros this year, it has been announced.

Wiener Linien said yesterday (Thurs) that federal and city/provincial governments both contribute half of that amount.

Much of the money the agency will invest this year be spent on a five-kilometre extension of the underground line U2 from its current terminus at Stadion station through six new stations to its future end at Aspernstra�e.

The new stretch is expected to open on 2 October - shortly before the 10 October city-provincial election in Vienna.

Work will also begin on an extension to tram line 26, which will have 10 more stops by 2013.

Agency manager G�nter Steinbauer said a weekend all-night underground service could be set up within six months if city voters approved it in a February referendum.

Brauner said the extra five million Euros for the all-night service would come from the city�s central budget.

The agency is also looking to resolve a dispute with Siemens Austria over its low-floor trams (ULFs) this year.

The city cancelled the firm�s delivery of 104 additional ULFs last July after defective noise insulation matting on one caught fire while it was in service. The agency reconditioned those already in service as a precautionary measure but there is dispute over who should pay for the work.

Despite the dispute though Siemens Austria got a 25-million-Euro underground security systems contract from the agency in December last year for systems for the fourth stage of expansion of the city�s underground network while Wiener Linien also ordered 20 more underground "V-cars" from Siemens Austria in a 191-million-Euro deal in September.

Austrian Times

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