On 19 October, a delegation of city councillors and experts in regional development from the cities of Chernivtsi, Poltava, Vinnytsia, Zhytomyr, Kyiv and Lviv came to Zurich as part of a project on integrated urban development in Ukraine. The project is the brainchild of the German Federal Enterprise for International Cooperation (GIZ), and is co-financed by the German and the Swiss governments. A specialist from the Civil Engineering Office explained to the visitors the cornerstones of the city’s mobility and traffic management policy via the Urban Traffic Programme «Stadtverkehr 2025», and went into particular detail on various subjects such as promoting public transport, parking space management, capping the expanding number of private vehicles, concepts on how the various modes of transport can coexist and improvements to the urban environments. Certain illustrations of what has already been implemented were able to be viewed at the on-site inspections that concluded the visit (for example the improvements to Bullingerplatz). Discussions also centred around the political and internal administrative processes for traffic management and urban environments.
Link to Enterprise for International Cooperation (GIZ)
Link to the Urban Traffic Programme «Stadtverkehr 2025» (in German only)
René Huber, Civil Engineering and Waste Management department
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