Zug, 09.07.2019

Mobility hub planned for V-Zug site

This mobility hub is described as a kind of car park of the future, a place where people can arrive in their cars but then change to more environmentally-friendly forms of transport. This particular one, which is being planned on the northern edge of the V-Zug site in the city, will be very close to the Zug-Baar tangent road, which is currently under construction.

 

Furthermore, the hub will come with a pedestrian bridge (as shown in the computer-generated image) providing access to the company site, not that this is solely for the use of employees; it is for the general public, too.

 

The plans for this project, the second major development of this Zug Technology Cluster (TCZ), are currently on show at the city’s administration offices and will remain so until Monday 22 July. If no objections are raised, construction of this 600-space car park, with a bistro on the ground floor, is expected to start in autumn, replacing the current building on this site.

 

In charge of the construction of this TCZ site is Beat Weiss, who explained how land currently used for car parks on this site is to be built on, the V-Zug company encouraging its employees to make more use of more environmentally-friendly forms of transport than their private cars.

 

As to what this means, it was explained how the number 3 and 4 bus routes will serve this site and that e-bikes and e-scooters will also be made available. Then the self-driving electro-shuttle bus will link up the site with the station. In fact V-Zug, the ZVB, the SBB and the company behind the shuttle bus are all working together in this latter project; locals may well have seen the test journeys. One other idea is to have automated valet parking, i.e. where self-driving cars can park themselves, helping to reduce the amount of space needed in parking areas.

 

One expert in this field is Oscar Merlo of the “Team Traffic Planning Office” in Cham, who greatly supports the idea of this mobility hub, enabling drivers to leave their cars on the edge of the city and use more environmentally-friendly forms of transport for their onward journey.

 

In the end, with fewer cars on the city’s streets, more areas could be planted with greenery, improving the quality of the air, and cyclists and pedestrians benefiting, too.