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Wiener Linien approach confirmed by Austrian Traffic Club survey

Only in Vienna can public transport easily hold its own with the motor car: it is faster than car travel on many routes, and can reach the city centre in less than 30 minutes more...

E-mobility without loss of comfort

In collaboration with Vienna Energy, the City of Vienna has taken another step towards environmentally friendly mobility more...

Vienna Lines a significant economic factor

Vienna Lines recently presented its investment programme for the year 2010. The mainstay will once again be the expansion of the underground network more...

Schengen and the Iron Curtain: rail travel between Vienna and Prague

Twenty years after the fall of the Iron Curtain, passengers travelling by rail between Austria and the Czech Republic get a very different impression more...

České Budějovice Airport: opportunity for an entire region

During the last few days, work started on rebuilding the regional airport of České Budějovice in the Czech Republic. In the future, this airport previously used primarily by light aircraft is destined to serve passenger aircraft
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170 years Vienna-Brno by rail

The first trains travelled on the railway line between Vienna and the Moravian capital of Brno – a distance of 145 kilometres – on 7 July 1839 more...

Major Infrastructure Project in Sofia

The ground-breaking ceremony for the construction of the underground railway in the Bulgarian capital of Sofia took place in 1978, over 30 years ago. However, construction proceeded at a slow pace more...

Everything spick and span

In November 09 Vienna Lines is starting a new clean-up campaign on Vienna’s public transport under the motto “Get lost with your trash!” more...

25 years: one ticket – three provinces

For 25 years now, public transport passengers of Vienna, Lower Austria and Burgenland have been able to enjoy the benefits of the Transport Association Eastern Region. A single ticket has been valid in these three Austrian provinces … more...

Traffic and transport study – more and more Viennese are jumping on their bikes

One of the questions in the survey carried out among the Viennese about the quality of life in Vienna concerned the traffic and transport situation in the city more...