Traffic planning Open letter criticizes delay in noise remediation in Malters
The Lucerne section of the Swiss Transport Club (VCS), local parties and residents criticize the "unacceptable delays" in the noise protection project in Malters LU. In an open letter, they demand "swift action" from the government.
20.06.2024, 13:18
SDA
"In October, exactly ten years will have passed since the public launch of the Malters noise protection project and the 900 or so residents affected by noise on the cantonal roads in Malters are still waiting for measures to reduce the harmful noise," write the authors of the open letter in a press release on Thursday.
Although all the necessary clarifications have been completed for years with positive results, the canton refuses to approve a 30 km/h speed limit on the cantonal road, the press release states.
In the open letter, VCS Lucerne and the representatives from Malters demand an answer from the responsible cantonal councillor Fabian Peter and the cantonal engineer Gregor Schwegler on how to proceed by October 8, 2024.
Following the publication of the 2014 noise protection project, in which the canton did not include any noise-reducing measures according to the press release, the VCS Lucerne lodged an objection calling for a 30 km/h speed limit to be examined. IG Malters followed up with a petition in 2019.
