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Postgasse – temporary encounter zone
With Saturday, September 25, starts in the Postgasse in the Villacher
city center an exciting project: Under the motto “Tactical Mobilism”.
the Postgasse will be transformed into a pedestrian zone until October 8.
“The goal is to provide mobility alternatives in a circumscribed area
to try out,” says city planning officer Harald Sobe. “The post alley
will be greened and with its own street furniture from September 25 to October 8,
made by participants of the Girls’ Center, decorated.”
Linda Dörrzapf, project manager at TU Wien: “We from the Tactical Mobilism Team
together with the city of Villach, we are now pleased to bring this project to the Postgasse.
bring Particularly valuable for us is also the good cooperation with the
offices and facilities in Villach, such as the Wirtschaftshof, the
Stadtgarten, the city hall management, the city marketing as well as with the
authorities involved.”
Anita Rappauer, queraum research office. cultural and social research: “We are pleased
that so many citizens and entrepreneurs are able to share their ideas with us.
and helped us with the transformation of the Postgasse into the
Support Pedestrian Zone.”
Kurt Fallast, Mobility Planner – PLANUM GmbH: From the point of view of mobility planning
Tactical Mobilism shows that the street space is not only used as a traffic space
should be. The previous dominance of motor vehicle traffic in public spaces will be
replaced by a variety of uses. Not the motorized traffic is given area
“taken away”, rather, both local residents, business operators as well as
Users of the Postgasse through such an upgrade of the public space.
You can find the link to the article of the Kleine Zeitung here.
