Vienna is expanding Liesingbach-Radweg: New routes and green areas!

Vienna is expanding Liesingbach-Radweg: New routes and green areas!

This day, May 23, 2025, Vienna has announced a crucial step to improve its cycling infrastructure. The city is working on the expansion of the Liesingbach cycle path in the 23rd district, which will lead from Riegermühle to Schrailplatz in the future. This new connection is connected to the existing route in Meisgeyergasse and shows Vienna's commitment to sustainable mobility and a more environmentally friendly flow of traffic. ots.at reports that the construction work begins on Tuesday and new green areas and trees are planted by autumn 2025.

The new cycle path is run directly along Brunner Straße with a length of about 500 meters and a width of up to 2.5 meters. It will cross Brunner Straße and lead to Meisgeyergasse and to the reclewish. This is an important gap in an important part of the main cycling network, which is continuously expanded to increase safety and comfort for cyclists.

construction phases and transport adjustments

As part of the project, the lanes of Erlaaer Straße and Brunner Straße are renewed due to time damage. In addition, the “Brunner Straße/Erlaaer Straße” stop of the 62A bus line is renewed. The first construction phase is scheduled to continue until July 1, 2025. In this phase, turning to Erlaaer Straße is not possible. In the second construction phase that begins during the summer holidays, the stop of the 60A motorway line is lifted without replacement until the end of the holiday. Further construction site information will be made available in September. wien.gv.at emphasizes that this is part of a comprehensive Initiative to promote bike paths in Vienna.

The cycle path offensive in Vienna is already in full swing and comprises a total of over 250 projects in which almost 100 kilometers of cycle paths have already been created. A total of around 130 million euros were invested for the expansion of the cycling infrastructure, so that the proportion of bike paths rose to 11 % in 2024-compared to 7 % in 2019. [bahttps://www.bahrradwien.at/radwegoffensive-2024/) added that more than 9 kilometers of new cycle paths will be created in Liesing and that important gaps will be created in Liesing and improve the connection within the district.

sustainable urban development

The introduction of a comprehensive parking picker in Liesing also results in new uses for public space. The parking space capacity utilization in Alt Erlaa has dropped by about 30 percent, which offers the city of space for creating new green areas and bike paths. The initiative to improve the cycling infrastructure pursues a comprehensive concept to make cycling in Vienna safer and more comfortable, and is supported by annual investments of around 20 million euros. In 2023, the sum for the cycle path offensive was a total of 35 million euros.