Popular initiative to preserve Alpine regions from transit traffic (1994)
Categories: State and Politics › Votes › Transport and Energy policy
Adoption of the Initiative on «protecting alpine regions from transit traffic» caused a sensation. It aimed a shifting border-to-border freight traffic transiting through the Alps from roads to the railways within ten years and at prohibiting higher transit-road capacity in alpine regions.
The Initiative was accepted by the electorate and the cantons.
Voter turnout: 40.8%
Votes in favour: 51.9%
Text Sources
- FSO (2004): Vote Statistics
Data Sources
- Atlas of Switzerland (2010): Basiskarte 1:500.000
- Atlas of Switzerland: Administrative Einheiten 1:500.000 (Gemeinden, Bezirke, Kantone)
- FSO (2019): Volksabstimmungen (Ergebnisse Ebene Gemeinde seit 1981)
- swisstopo [J160089] (2010): Gemeindegrenzen GG25
- swisstopo [J160089] (2010): Landeskarte 1:500.000
Data Owners: Atlas of Switzerland (AoS), Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), Swiss Federal Office of Topography (swisstopo), Federal Chancellery
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