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 […]
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The number of people opting for annual Wiener Linien tickets is soaring. A spokesman for the Viennese public transport agency told the Kurier newspaper today (Fri) that more than 8,000 people ordered annual passes last month. He explained that the average number of purchasers of this kind of ticket used to range around 2,000. Rising […]
Tyrol hit by power cut double strike
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The Innsbruck area has been affected by a power cut for a second time in as many days. Local electricity providers said today (Thurs) around 3,000 households had been affected by the 45-minute disruption yesterday afternoon. They explained investigations into the cause were ongoing. Tyrolean officials stressed that the most recent incident was unrelated to […]
Thousands of homes and offices in Tyrol were without electricity for more than half an hour this morning (Tues). A short circuit – which happened during work on a transformer station near Innsbruck – left around 4,000 households without energy between 9.47am and 10.20am, electricity provider Tiwag explained. Customers were locked in shops as automatic […]
Electricity price hikes ahead
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An energy sector expert has warned that electricity prices will climb further. The Austrian Energy Agency said today (Thurs) its price index for next month was 7.6 per cent higher than figures of July 2010. It added that the index rose from June 2011 to July of the same year by 1.7 per cent. These […]
Austria makes rich list’s top 5
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Austria has one of the densest millionaire populations in the world, a survey has revealed.Boston Consulting Groups (BCG) Global Wealth Report 2011 shows that, with 5.2 million households, most US dollar millionaires live in the United States of America. Millionaire households represented only 0.9 per cent of all households in the world. These families owned […]
Fewer than two per cent of Austrians are changing their electricity providers to save costs, it has been revealed.Walter Boltz, head of market watchdog E-Control, said today (Thurs): “No more than 1.7 per cent of households are changing their electricity providers each year despite the liberalisation of the sector (in 2001).”Speaking to the Kurier newspaper, […]
Vienna leaders reject WLAN appeal
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Public transport passengers in Vienna will not be provided with free wireless local area network (WLAN) internet access.The city government coalition of Social Democrats (SPÖ) and the Green Party ruled out such implementations in the near future. The government was pressed to comment on the issue after federal Peoples Party (ÖVP) youth leader Sebastian Kurz […]
Vorarlberg not upping heating subsidy
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The provincial government of Vorarlberg has decided not to raise the heating subsidy sum for the upcoming winter.Peoples Party (ÖVP) councillor Greti Schmid announced today (Tues) that the government will support needy households with 250 Euros this winter, the same amount it provided last year.This means that local political decision-makers will not take inflation into […]