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 Even now, the test undermines Banverket in the square with excavators Supreme Administrative Court may soon come to stop the construction of station Odenplan in City layout in central Stockholm. On Thursday, there was the main hearing. How is it possible to build Sweden's second largest railway station not to investigate the environmental impacts and alternative modes? It asks the residents of three housing associations at Odenplan who today urged the government the right to order a stop to the construction of City Line "Station Odin". They ask so-called inhibition.  The case concerns whether the State made an honest environmental impact assessment of the station and its alternatives. Tenant unions argue that the State of dark and never really examined the implications for the environment. According to Banverket station will become Sweden's second largest, in terms of number of travelers. It is intended to begin construction in January, but now the test undermines Banverket down in the square with excavators. Societies cornflower Blaklinten 2 and the Imperial Crown owns property along Karlbergsvagen close Odenplan Square. They and their counsel, lawyer Staffan Michelson, believes that the state, both the government and National Rail Administration, failed to investigate the environmental impact of Station Odenplan and options. Instead, we drove on and locked her in a station whose solution options have never been investigated under laws and regulations, they argue. In addition, the construction project has grown significantly. Trench to be excavated to build the station at Odin was in the early studies thought to be 300 square meters. Now, it is estimated to be seven times larger than 2000 square meters, and construction is expected to be at least three times as long. Staffan Michelson, referring today during the hearing in the Supreme Administrative Court in the premises at Riddarholmen in Stockholm to a ruling of the Supreme Court from last summer relating to a protection dam and dikes in flood-affected Arvika. HD suggested last summer that the Arvika municipality could not build protective devices, but to examine the environmental implications and alternative designs. There was a minimum requirement, according to HD. Now claims tenant unions to the government so-called admissibility review of City Line, which was in March 2005, deliberately failed to examine the impact of station construction at Odin. - We believe that the government allows tests have never tried the station and the environmental interventions, "said Staffan Michelson today. Supreme Administrative Court had also referred to as the National Rail Administration, which sent lawyers Bo Nilsson, general counsel. According to Bo Nilsson require an environmental impact not only consist of a document. He referred instead to all the investigations carried out on City Line, claiming that the station Odenplans alternatives and environmental impacts been investigated in these studies. He referred mainly to a study by 2002 and the Railway Inquiry of 2003. - Here is the basis for an environmental impact statement, he stated. However, without detailed any clarification. Bo Nilsson was also attacked and claimed that the residents through their claims now the entire City Line at stake. If the law stops the City Line, it will cost several billion, he warned. - Currently in progress works procured six billion crowns. Staffan Michelson argues that "no more than Banverket had access to the base" of alternative solutions. - It has darkened every option and kept them outside the democratic consultation process, "he says. Main hearing the Supreme Administrative Court issued under a so-called judicial review process. The process means that some of the government's decision, regarding someone's civil rights, can be reviewed by the Supreme Administrative Court, and if the applicant is entitled remitted the matter to the government. Thus, the question of Sweden's second largest railway station back to the government's lap. That Government the right of the Governing Body Susanne Billum the chair considers that the complainant is entitled to the substance. Goran Larsson, Chairman of the Imperial Crown 6, told the Court today that Odin is based on a lowering of the mud and that it takes at least a year to excavate the clay away. - Overall, the pit will be open in four years, during the years 2010 to 2013. It will deal with heavy transport to and from the pit, about changing practices of traffic, noise and vibration. Bo Nilsson, Banverket's agent, countered that Banverket will be built under the authority conditions applying to particular noise levels.  Test holes at Odenplan While it is clear that we can not do audio requirements throughout the construction period, but many residents will have to be evacuated from their homes for long periods. While Banverket think Odenplan Station is the best solution to traffic hub with many omstigande travelers and many workplaces around, say housing associations to the unique cultural environment for Odin with the centuries-old park of lime trees in front of Gustav Vasa church is wasted on station there. - It would be best to build the station in the modern environment being built at North Station, where there will be many more jobs than at Odenplan future, "says Göran Larsson. Government Court decision is expected to be completed within a few weeks. |
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