Published on October 2, 2024 at 5:50 p.m. / Modified on October 3, 2024 at 06:19.
There is no longer any doubt that the debates surrounding the November 24 vote on motorway development projects will be fierce. In a few days, several heavyweights in Swiss politics launched into the battle. A week after the supporters of the road (we found the president of the Swiss PLR, Thierry Burkart, or the Centrist Fabio Regazzi, president of USAM, the umbrella organization of SMEs), it was the turn of the adversaries, this Wednesday in Bern , to launch their campaign. At the desk, among others, the co-president of the PS Suisse Mattea Meyer and the president of the Vert·e·s Suisse Lisa Mazzone. “This vote is a bit like the mother of battles,” recognizes the Geneva ecologist. It’s a vote that will impact generations.”
On paper, however, the vote is far from being a social choice. Following the submission of a referendum by the left and environmental associations, the population is called upon to vote on a federal decree dedicated to the “2023 development stage of national roads”. This provides for an investment of 5.3 billion francs aimed at financing work to improve traffic flow on six black spots on the motorway network. Concretely, this involves three tunnel expansions, in the cantons of Basel, Saint-Gall and Schaffhausen, as well as three widenings, two sections of the Berne bypass and – this is the only project in French-speaking Switzerland – 19 kilometers between Nyon and Geneva (Vengeron interchange).
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