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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 Aspernstraße.

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 Günter 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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