Romanian car thieves who were moving their loot through Austria and into Hungary are under arrest after being stopped on their way back to their homeland with a dismantled top-of-the-range BMW X6 car in the back of their truck. Police said the crooks had just crossed into Hungary from Austria when they were pulled over […]
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Street prostitution is to be banned in large areas of Vienna’s Prater district from September. It is thought that as a result many of the prostitutes will move to the industrial zone in Liesing. Residents in Liesing are worried that this will result in problems and conflicts in Liesing with the prostitutes already working there. […]
Following in the footsteps of Car2Go and Carsharing.at a new car sharing operator has opened in Vienna. Flinkster, a subsidiary of Deutsche Bahn, has opened its Vienna headquarters at Vienna’s Westbahnhof Train Station. Further locations in 18 other districts of Vienna are set to follow. The basic price for rental is 1 Euro per hour […]
Heat wave makes 7 cars explode
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By Rob Hyde Temperatures rose so high this weekend that seven cars burst into flames in a car park in Voralberg. 30 firefighters rushed to scene to put out the flames which had engulfed the car park in the market town of Hard, near the Bodensee Lake. Police said the sophisticated technology involved in new […]
Naked sunbathers were left completely stark naked after their cars were towed by police on the Donauinsel in Vienna, Austria Police towed 57 vehicles parked illegally near to the naked bathing area along the Danube river. Many of the bathers had left their clothes in the car as they went for some all over tanning […]
Vienna road toll on the agenda again
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The Vienna Greens are risking a coalition-internal conflict by calling for a city toll. Rüdiger Maresch, the leftist party’s traffic spokesman, said such a fee “is unavoidable on the long term”. Maresch underlined the city government’s ambition to slash fine dust levels, the volume of toxic emissions by cars and noise caused by traffic in […]
Man killed in traffic accident
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A tragic accident claimed the life of a 22-year-old Austrian this week. The young man from Oberndorf, in Flachgau, was travelling in Bavaria when he pulled into the lane used by oncoming traffic to overtake a row of cars. But he smashed into the side of another car driven by another Austrian driver, a 45-year-old […]
Fuel prices under close scrutiny
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The Austrian Competition Authority (BWB) has asked the country’s leading oil companies and petrol station managers to comment on the current price developments. The BWB announced yesterday (Weds) it had decided to take a closer look at the recent pricing occurrences due to an increasing number of complaints by citizens and car clubs. The authority […]
Vienna keeps cycling focus
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Vienna’s cycling network is set to become bigger. Greens Vice Mayor Maria Vassilakou said yesterday (Weds) the city’s government coalition of Social Democrats (SPÖ) and her party agreed about expanding several already existing cycling paths. She said the 24 individual projects would be carried out throughout this year and extend cycling strips by 20 kilometres […]
Traffic researchers and motorists’ associations are at odds over how to react to rising fuel prices. Investigations by car club Arbö show that the average price for one litre of diesel fuel reached a four-year record last Monday at 1.397 Euros. The price for petrol shot up too, according to the association. Arbö and ÖAMTC, […]