Wien Hauptbahnhof / BahnhofCity, + Numbers Project partner City of , ÖBB Start of Construction (Austrian Federal 2007 Railways), Federal Government, private Est’ed Completion Date consortiums 2014-2015 Project Components Expected Costs (Station) Zentralbahnhof Wien EUR 886,000,000 (newly constructed multi- modal train hub) Expected Costs (total) EUR 2,000,000,000 New retail, residental, and business district Passengers/day 145,000,000 Extensive additional infrastructure investments Total m2 (BahnhofCity) (high-speed rail service; 59 ha etc.)

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Vienna’s “Project of the Century” + A signature project of the country -wide services will be directed exclusively station modernizati on program Bahnhof through the new main . Resources Offensive, Vienna’s new rail hub - the Vienna’s new train station is estimated to Hauptbahnhof (Vienna Central Train cost about € 866 million and is to be Official Website Station) – represents a key element of a partially financed by the sale of rail yard www.hauptbahnhof-wien.at capital-intensive expansion and reorgani- plots at the “Süd” and “Ost” Bahnhof as www.iemar.tuwien.ac.at/mai zation of the rail transportation network in they are freed up while the total urban and s/ and surrounding Vienna. Replacing th e transportation development investments www.oebb-immobilien.at city’s Süd and Ostbahnhof (South and East for the entire area are expected to amount Train Station), it is accompanied by to € 2 billion. Hailed as a “project of the Masterplan Bahnhof Wien - extensive infrastructure and urban century”, the station (area) development Europa Mitte development investments, including a has been endorsed by most actors in the www.wien.gv.at/stadtentwic new mixed-use neighborhood called city’s political arena but at the same time klung/bahnhofwien/ BahnhofCity (Railway Station City) on an is also confronted with substantial criticism Stadtentwicklung Wien adjacent rail yard that will house office as com munity groups, representatives of (Urban Planning space for around 20,000 employees, the affected city boroughs and the local Department Vienna) 5,000 apartments, as well as a broad Green party question different www.magwien.gv.at/stadtent array of commerci al and recreational components of the project, as well as, wicklung/ facilities. A public-private-partnership more generally, its location and scale. Bürgerinitiative project spearheaded by the federal Particularly public transport is thereby a (Community Initiative) infrastructure ministry, the city of Vienna, big concern as many experts criticize the www.wiener- Austria’s Fe deral Railways (ÖBB), as well city for not connecting the station to the hauptbahnhof.at/hb/ as several private entities, the station is existing subway line “U1” or the extension expected to be completed by 2015. In of the subway line “U2” that is currently parallel with the new large-scale station, build nearby. Fu rther, the planning a high-speed rail connection is to be put process was challenged on numerous into operation between Paris, Stuttgart, grounds as critics complained about the Munich, Vienna and Budapest. limited opportunities for participation for the general public and interest groups.- The Westbahnhof (West Train Station), particularly during the environmental currently the city’s most important station impact assessment and the project face d and undergoing redevelopment, will legal challenges for violating European continue to exist, but serve primarily procurement law when the architecture regional trains as most high-speed rail competition was held.

This project profile was developed by the German Research Foundation (DFG) Emmy Noether Research Project on “The Urban Renaissance Potential of Inner-City Rail Station Redevelopment Mega-Projects.” For additional information on the project, go to http://megaprojects.metropolitanstudies.de