On Saturday, the MCube aqt project team - car-reduced neighborhoods for a livable city - was back in the Giesinger Quartier to celebrate the opening of the Landlstraße real-world laboratory with its residents, mobility officer Georg Dunkel and BA chairwoman Carmen Dullinger-Oßwald.
"If you don't have one yourself, you can use the street as a huge balcony from now on and I hope you take advantage of this opportunity!"
BA Chairwoman Carmen Dullinger-Oßwald
With approx 70 visitors, Georg Dunkel and Carmen Dullinger-Oßwald opened the start of the traffic-calmed section of Landlstraße. Until October 2023, the #reallabor will be researching how traffic areas can be redistributed and how street areas in the city (southern Au and Obergiesing) can be used differently.
"We need these experiments in the city to try things out more quickly and use feedback loops."
Oliver May-Beckmann, Managing Director MCube
These temporary designs are met with enthusiasm but also with criticism and uncertainty from local residents. Although in the surveys carried out by the aqt team 62 After intensive discussions with residents about their suggestions and wishes for more green space and more play facilities, the residents are divided.
"We are interested in as a project, the impact of such interventions„
Marco Kellhammer, Project Management aqt
Some residents feel ignored and initially resist the measures, while others look forward to the changes. We are open to discussion and hope to bring both groups - those in favor of the transformation of public space and those (still) opposed to it - together. Because that is what our society is all about: a process of negotiation. We want to stimulate a necessary discussion about our future coexistence in the city / in urban spaces within this neighborhood. This is exactly what is currently happening in the #reallabor Landlstraße and we are using such experiments to test how the mobility transition can be shaped, how participation can be strengthened and how we can adapt our living spaces in view of climate change and make them more liveable.
During the coming months of the #reallab, further public consultations will be held to give local residents the opportunity to express their concerns about the road transformation and to discuss their wishes and suggestions.
To the Landlstraße:
From July to October 2023, a section of Landlstraße in Obergiesing will be closed to vehicle traffic as part of the MCube project aqt - autoreduzierte Quartiere für eine lebenswerte stadt. Seating, raised beds and trees invite people to use the space. Pedestrians and cyclists gain more space. In addition, mobility points will be added in the coming weeks.
You can find more information about the aqt project here.
Thanks to Viktoriya Zayika for the pictures
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