FPÖ Landbauer: “Starting signal for new public transport in the western Weinviertel”

“We invest in mobility offerings exactly as people need them. 12 meter buses or even trains do not make sense everywhere and at any time. An intelligently planned shared call taxi is often exactly the right answer to people’s needs. The experiences in the Mostviertel West project show: Lower Austria is on the right track,” said LH Deputy Transport Councilor Udo Landbauer about the public transport offensive in the western Weinviertel.

With the publication of the tender documents, the Eastern Region Transport Association has now formally given the starting signal for the redesign of public transport in the western Weinviertel. “We are now looking for efficient transport companies,” explains Landbauer. In autumn 2025, the best bidders will be launched in the Weinviertel with new buses and modern shared taxis.

VOR managing director Alexander Schierhuber is also enthusiastic: “This great project was prepared in the Eastern Region Transport Association, and in September 2024 we will be passing the baton on to the Lower Austrian NÖVOG, which is responsible for all further implementation steps. I am convinced: the NÖVOG top team will raise public transport in Lower Austria to a new level.” NÖVOG managing director Wolfgang Schroll said: “We know that linking regular services – bus and train – with shared taxis not only works technically, but is accepted by people because it brings with it extensive improvements.”

The approach of linking scheduled public transport with demand-controlled shared taxis is to be pursued in Lower Austria in the next few years. Individual offers at community level have already started (Maria Anzbach, Ebreichsdorf), with attention being paid to close cooperation with the affected communities and colleagues from Noe.Regional. A team with high technical and organizational skills has been built at VOR, which is constantly working on further developments and will soon be moving to NÖVOG in Lower Austria.