The S-Link shareholders are launching an advertising campaign with a detailed cost-benefit analysis just a few months before the referendum on November 10. 42,000 passengers would save three times the distance they would travel around the earth by car every day.
If you go by the S-Link operating company and the cost-benefit analysis examined by the Federal Ministry for Climate, it is clear, to put it very simply: In the long term, the partially underground connection between the city’s main station and Hallein will have more advantages than disadvantages. Experts led by managing director Stefan Knittel and lawyer Monika Stöggl yesterday revealed figures for Salzburg’s mega transport project. The year 2040 is chosen as an example as a reference point for the investment and operating costs. A point in time when all construction work will be completed and the railway will be in full operation. “This results in annual costs of 81.4 million euros, and the economic benefit is estimated at 84.1 million euros,” explains Knittel. The so-called cost-benefit factor should illustrate the sense even more clearly. The S-Link project with the appearance of the railway on Friedensstrasse has a value of 1.03. In Linz, they are also in the starting blocks for the expansion of a similar project. Although the value in Upper Austria is below 0.6, construction is definitely underway. What the operators in Salzburg also cite as a major plus: 42,000 guests a day would help save a car journey of 136,000 kilometers. That’s the equivalent of three times around the earth. Accidents and emissions would also be reduced.
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