Have found a bird cliff and God may know what not
« The matter has been delayed immensely, just to serve the City of Reykjavik, to look at tunnels. »
This was stated by Eyjólfur Ármannsson, Minister of Internal Affairs in Althingi last year. Wednesday, when he answered an unprepared inquiry from Guðlaugur Þór Þórðarson about Sundabraut and transport.
And the minister added:
« I requested it right from the start that it would not be possible for the City of Reykjavik to delay this food anymore. They have found birds of bird and God may know what to look at over and over again. There is always something more to look at and is almost trying to find the last one that is against it. »
Needing Search Dogs
« These are strange times and there are new working methods with a new government and it is gratifying to see the high -ranking minister, it has had to look a little for them. You even see the high -ranking MPs of the government but it has now needed search dogs to find them here in the parliament house when we are discussing issues they are dealing with. » With these words, Guðlaugur Thor began his case and added:
« Then there are others who are grinding without discussion and I am talking about issues that concern everyone, especially people in the capital area, and cost hundreds of billions. I am talking about Sundabraut and Sundag tunnel and I am talking about better transport. We see in the media this wind on this wind but we do not discuss it here. »
Does not increase the flow of cars
And Guðlaugur mentions that the flaw, for example, to current ideas and what is being examined regarding Sundabraut is that it does not increase traffic flow because at the terminal station there is no increased traffic space. The flow pass through the city’s district, four lanes in two places.
« It will be inside the car -free neighborhood of the Social Democratic Party and the Rally, which is certainly not car -free, but there is no bus stop there, so you have to get a taxi at the expense of the city to get a bus stop and this is not a joke.
« I am waiting for an environmental report on the project and then I have to decide whether it will be a bridge or a tunnel over the channels, » said Eyjólfur in his reply.
« When I got the keys from the former Minister of Interior, he told me that this would be my decision in April, that the report would come in April. I am still waiting for the report.
When the report was available, Eyjólfur said he was more than a little ready to take the debate in the parliamentary hall and in the community about this important implementation.
Incredible delays
« These delays in the case are absolutely incredible. I just challenge you to introduce you to this, that this planning should have been forged again, over and over again.
Eyjólfur reiterates that Sundabraut is the most economically viable implementation of Icelandic history according to an existing report. There is an agreement between the former Minister of Information and the City of Reykjavik that construction will begin no later than next year.
