Around 145,000 people used Viennas 24-hour underground service on New Years Eve, it has been announced.Public transport agency Wiener Linien said today (Tues) the 145,000 registered passengers made last Fridays New Years Eve the busiest night since it started offering U-Bahn operations throughout the night on weekends and before national holidays.Around 750,000 celebrated New Years […]
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A Vienna underground line came to a halt for two hours after an armed Egyptian man sat down on the rails yesterday (Thurs).Ahmed M. handed out leaflets at the U4 U-Bahn line Landstraße station which criticised authorities for not awarding him Austrian citizenship after having lived 10 years in the country. The 38-year-old then took […]
Hundreds of drivers have fuelled their cars at a new discount petrol station in Vienna.The station managed by Salzburg-based businessman Markus Friesacher in cooperation with discount supermarket chain Hofer started doing business in the citys Simmering district yesterday (Tues).One litre of diesel fuel and regular petrol costs 0.99 Eurocents in a special offer […]
Support for end of conscription wanes
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Support for the abolition of mandatory military service in Austria is in decline, a new poll has shown.Vienna-based agency Karmasin found only 41 per cent of Austrians oppose the current six-month obligatory service, down from 48 per cent in July.The agency, which spoke to around 500 Austrians for political magazine profil, further found that 44 […]
SPÖ makes shock U-turn on conscription
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Leading Social Democrats (SPÖ) have spoken out in favour of a referendum about conscription in what is regarded as a sensational U-turn on the issue.SPÖ Vienna Mayor Michael Häupl suggested yesterday (Mon) people should decide on whether young Austrians should still have to serve in the army. Around 25,000 men aged 18 or 19 receive […]
More than 10 million Euros of taxpayers money is being used to finance Viennas new 24-hour U-Bahn weekend service, it has been announced.Public transport agency Wiener Linien said today (Mon) the service which went into operation four weeks ago cost an overall 10.7 million Euros a year. It explained the new around the […]
The political pressure on Federal Railways (ÖBB) is rising following the firms announcement to axe a direct connection between the second- and third-biggest cities in the country.ÖBB said last week it would stop running a direct high-speed Intercity connection between the Upper Austrian city of Linz and Graz in the province of Styria after reorganisation […]
Doppelmayr bags record order
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Austrian lift systems producer Doppelmayr has received the biggest assignment in its 118-year history.The Wolfurt-based company said today (Mon) its US American subsidiary DCC Doppelmayr Cable Car (DCC) was part of a consortium contracted to build a cable liner in the Californian city of Oakland.Doppelmayr said work would be completed in 2014, adding that the […]
A statement by Social Democratic (SPÖ) Defence Minister Norbert Darabos has fuelled speculations Austria would contribute in more international peace-keeping missions in the future.Looking back on 50 years of international engagement, the minister said today (Weds) he “cannot rule out” Austria will participate in peace-keeping missions in Africa. Austrian troops were sent to Chad in […]
A teenager has been put in custody after stabbing a prostitute at his home.David U. called up an escort service for a prostitute to go to his flat in Viennas Favoriten district on Saturday.Romanian Nicoletta C. suffered serious injuries as the 15-year-old stabbed her more than 20 times. The 24-year-old woman managed to leave the […]