Climate activists have closed the Reichsbrücke bridge in Vienna, which connects the two banks of the Danube.
VIENNA, 17 April – RIA Novosti. Climate activists blocked one of Vienna’s most famous bridges, the Reichsbrück (German: “Imperial bridge”), which connects the two sides of the Danube, on Monday morning, departing from the movement’s messages Letzte Production.
“We are marching in the Reichsbrücke, even though our government is responding unbearably slow to the warning cries of science,” representatives of the Austrian branch of the movement wrote on Twitter.
A social media post titled “Snails in Reichsbrücke” was accompanied by a video of activists in orange signal vests with banners covering all six lanes of the bridge, causing a massive traffic jam.
“Our government does not take science’s loud warnings seriously. This is why we join civil disobedience,” the activists said. Protesters demand speed limits on roads up to 100 kilometers per hour and warn people to “fall into climate hell”. Posters of protesters also suggest that the government does not have a climate protection plan.
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“Why aren’t even free measures such as the 100 kilometers per hour speed limit implemented? This saves almost half a million tons of CO2 in one stroke and fewer people die on highways,” the activists said.
Vienna police also warned on Twitter about the protest in Reichsbrück and urged residents to take another route. “We will use additional forces to lift the temporary transport blockade as soon as possible,” law enforcement said.
Source: Ria
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