Climate stickers paralyze traffic at the Au/Lustenau border crossing

People of the last generation brought international heavy traffic to a standstill on Wednesday morning.

Update: The police are on site now.

The approximately eight protesters went into the traffic jam that was already standing on the Lustenau (AT) – Au (CH) border bridge and then glued their hands to the bridge concrete on the Austrian side. A rescue lane was provided – one of the people was not glued.

“Numerous transit routes of international heavy traffic lead through the Lustenau/Au border crossing. At least 1,350 trucks and 13,100 cars cross the border at this point every day and pollute the residents in Lustenau with harmful exhaust gases and nerve-wracking noise,” say the climate activists. “For over 30 years there has been discussion about how to solve the problem,” says Marina Hagen-Canaval (26), who was born in Lustenau, “and the so-called ‘solution’ of the ÖVP is even more fossil infrastructure, which only increases the problem. Without Consideration for local residents or future generations. The state and federal government must finally see that this is a completely absurd mistake in view of the climate catastrophe and start taking the first simple protective measures: speed reduction and no new fossil projects!”

The 30-year-old doctor Anna, who works in the Dornbirn hospital, is also stuck on the street today: “When we have the first days of heat, as a doctor I see the effects of the climate catastrophe directly: heat causes fatal diseases such as heart attacks, strokes and kidney failure to increase . Besides, the healthcare system is already at its limit, and I don’t know how we’re going to cope with a further increase in patients in the future. And yet our government is not ready to take the simplest protective measures! They want to build even more roads and drilling for new oil and gas in Austria. If I worked as carelessly as our government does, I would be out of a job tomorrow!”

Her father is sitting next to Anna. He too sticks to the streets – “out of concern and love for my children,” as he says himself. Wilhelm Pössl (57), watchmaker, is in despair: “Unfortunately, my generation made big mistakes and to this day has not started to correct them set destruction in the way. I don’t want my daughter to have to glue herself to roads so that the government finally implements effective measures. I want her to have a secure future, but with the current course of Nehammer and Co. we are steering towards famine, water shortage and social conflicts – also here in Central Europe!”