Cologne - On a treadmill walking across the Rhine. In a few minutes then come in Cologne, travelers and trade fair guests dry from the central station to the other side to Deutz. This old vision could soon become a reality.
We now want to start a competition of ideas, "said Mayor Fritz Schramma on Tuesday. "We" are next to the city nor the Chief Executive, Dr. Herbert Ferger for the Chamber of Commerce and Dr. Norbert Reinkober as head of the Rhine-Sieg Transport. Her appeal: "We need to create in the interest of a better combination of the two stations on either side of the Rhine."
The working title of the project is "People Move" - in German passengers. In addition to the treadmill in the glass tube, other approaches could - cabins, monorail, cable cars or shuttle systems - to be submitted. Only the "SkyTrain", the monorail at Duesseldorf airport, does not consider Reinkober much: "The never moves."
The reason for the project is the transport policy of the web. And is this: The mainline station will bid farewell to the growing and shifting to the station with Deutz Deutz-Messe low. The actual station, which is through the bottleneck bridge for trains to delay the case so threatening for travelers to be siding.
In return: Long-distance travelers are increasingly in Deutz low. "If they want from there into the city, this is quite difficult," said Schramma: "A city - a railway station!" The new connection will allow the Rhine.
This idea is not new, however: 15 years ago, the FDP demanded the treadmill over the Rhine. The firm Thyssen had durchgerechnete the project and then estimated around 10 million €.
