Published on November 25, 2024 at 5:49 p.m. / Modified on November 25, 2024 at 5:50 p.m.
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The five billion planned for the widening of the highways will ultimately not be used.
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The left believes that this vote of the population is an opportune moment which would allow us to re-discuss the nature of this fund.
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The right prefers to procrastinate even if it does not exclude a redistribution of money that has not been used to taxpayers.
Appetite comes with eating. At least that’s what the left proved this Sunday, feeling galvanized by its victory against the widening of the highways. Just a few minutes after claiming success, she announced her ambitions for the future, particularly regarding the FORTA road fund which had 3.67 billion francs available as of December 31, 2023.
The Greens were the first to question the existence, as it stands, of this fund adopted in 2017 by the people, who welcomed the fact that road financing was independent of rail financing. . For Geneva national councilor Delphine Klopfenstein Broggini, FORTA’s billions should be used according to the “polluter pays” principle. “Individual motorized transport is responsible for 35% of greenhouse gas emissions and does nothing to reduce them. The money from this fund should also be used to repair the damage caused by climate change. For example, when there are extreme events in mountain regions which literally isolate villages, as experienced last summer in Valle Maggia, in Ticino.”
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