Full air conditioning on public transport to take 20 years

Vienna’s public transport chiefs have announced that it will be another 20 years before the city’s public transport is fully air conditioned, reports the Austrian Times. Transport operator Wiener Linien is to spend €680 million on new carriages, buses and...

Vienna hotel prices falling

Hotel comparison website Trivago has revealed that the price of hotel rooms in Vienna has fallen sharply. The average price for a standard double room in the capital fell 17 per cent to 108 euros per night in June. London...

Visitor numbers on the rise in Vienna

Visitor numbers to Vienna rose overall by 13.6 per cent in May compared to the same month last year, according to official figures. Among the biggest increases were domestic visitors, up by 21.3 per cent, Russia 22.2 per cent and...

Vienna national library teams up with Google

Austria’s national library in Vienna is providing internet search giant Google with its entire collection of 16th to 19th century books. The 400,000 copyright-free works, a total of 120 million pages, will be digitised by Google and made available online...

Most Viennese use public transport

Vienna’s public transport operator, Wiener Linien has released figures showing that 35 per cent of all journeys in the city in 2009 were on public transport, says the Austrian Times. Car rides were said to account for 32 per cent...

Vienna world’s best place to live

Vienna has retained its number one spot as the best place in the world to live, in the Mercer Quality of Living Survey 2010 of 221 cities worldwide. The Swiss cities of Zurich and Geneva take second and third place,...

German test for Vienna taxi drivers

Taxis drivers in Vienna could soon face a compulsory German test, says the Austrian Times. Head of the city’s taxi driver association is reported as saying that all new drivers wanting to register from the autumn will be obliged to...

Vienna to run all night underground service

It has been confirmed that Vienna’s all night underground service will begin on 4 September and run at 15-minute intervals through the night. Vienna Social Democratic (SPÖ) Deputy Mayor Renate Brauner and Günter Steinbauer of public transport provider Wiener Linien...