Voters reject Lake Geneva tunnel plans
7 October 2014SWITZERLAND - Voters in canton Geneva have turned down plans to build a new 1.5km-long road tunnel under the lake close to the city’s famous Jet d’Eau fountain. Last week, 63 per cent of voters turned down the initiative to construct a tunnel at the far western end of the lake, local press reported.
The rightwing Swiss People's Party initiative and the Touring Club of Switzerland (TCS) motoring association, argued that the new road tunnel under the lake was needed to relieve the heavily congested city centre and the Mont Blanc Bridge.
Other political parties and a number of environmental and local community groups had rejected the initiative, calling it too expensive and environmentally unfriendly, local press stated.
