Want to see the metro instead of Bolgarin

Ragnhildur said a City Council panel voted against the last charter in 2019, but then all budgets and implementation plans were thrown into disarray.

“Now we’re thinking more about it, not only do you have twice as much money now, but it may be ten to fifteen years before the people of Lake Wick see any improvement in their traffic problems. We just don’t like it. Dill For Reykjavik,” said Ragnhildur, who was in Reykjavik this afternoon to discuss transport, transportation protocols and costs.

For that kind of money, voters would prefer the subway

Ragnhildur said the estimated cost for the Borgarlína section alone is about $130 billion. The reason it is so expensive is that the chosen design is in the middle, so the entire street has to be broken up. This means people have to step in front of cars to get on city buses.

“I don’t think I can go to the electorate and tell them, I’m going to make you pay this much money for this version of Borgarlína because you’re going to have to stand outside to get on the carriages no matter what the weather is,” she said.

For that money, it’s also possible to see the subway.

“At least there is an addition to the road system, but the city line should naturally take one lane away from cars, and the report clearly states that this has already been net The delayed impact on driving traffic,” she said.

Also, other ideas, like light city lines, are cheaper, and they are also located to the side of other traffic, not in the middle like Bolgalina.

Other cities offer better treatment

But are the Independence Party divided on this issue? They govern other municipalities and Bjarni Benediktsson proposed the deal?

“I completely understand other municipalities because they’ve been treated much better than Reckvik. A lot of the road improvements that other municipalities fought for have already been achieved,” Raghildur said.

She said that if she stood in front of them and told them about the cost and construction of Bolgalina, even most voters would say they would rather take the subway than the bus in a dedicated lane in the middle of the road.

Want to amend the treaty

Raghildur said she would like to review the agreement, the amount and the timeline if she were in power in the city.

She hopes to finish Bústaðaveg first, as well as the junction of Reykjanesbraut and Sæbraut, which she says should already be completed.

“I would move it immediately, and I would take it to voters and say well, if you want a better bus, let’s start with the lightweight version, which is cheaper, quicker to implement, and which has had roughly the same success based on the measurements,” she said.

She also didn’t think it was justified to slow down traffic to get people on public transport. “It just shows that this person doesn’t have a lot of faith in public transport.”

Instead, she wants public transit to be “competitive,” and she wants subways to be considered.

“The problem is, when people sat down to make this deal in the first place, they were looking at these possibilities and then the metro should be so expensive.

But now we find that the City Line is not cheap at all, and it actually looks like we are net The same amount will even save us something by building the train,” Raghildur said.