[10/22/2008]
Positive attitude to the Citytunnel
In this year’s opinion poll about the attitude to the Citytunnel, seven out of ten say that they have a positive attitude to the project. It is an increase compared to the latest poll. The poll also shows that people who live close to the Citytunnel work sites are more positive than people in the rest of Skåne.
The Citytunnel will open in December 2010. The closer we get to the opening, the more positive the people of Skåne seem to get. In this year’s poll 67 percent say that they are positive to the project. It is a 7 percent increase compared to the poll last year. The number of people who are negative to the project has decreased from 9 to 4 percent.
There are geographical differences in the attitude. People in Malmö are most positive, 76 percent, and people in the South West of Skåne, 69 percent. In North East and North West of Skåne 60 percent of the people are positive.
Pleased neighbours
The poll also measures the attitude to the project for the people who live near the Citytunnel work sites in Triangeln, Malmö C and Holma/Hyllie. Even more people are positive there, 83 percent, which is a 6 percent increase compared to last year.
The people who live near the work sites get newsletters regularly with information about the project and activities that may affect them or be disturbing. Eight out of ten feel that they are well informed and equally many think that the information from the Citytunnel is good or very good.
”Since the start, the project has made an effort to inform the neighbours of the work sites. It is good to hear that so many take part of the information and that they think it is good”, says the information manager at the Citytunnel Anders Mellberg.
Citytunnel effect
80 percent of the people in the poll thought that the Citytunnel will have a positive effect on the development in Skåne. It is a 2 percent increase compared to the poll last year.
The confidence in the Citytunnel has increased in several areas, for example building technology, competence, openness and efforts to lessen the environmental impact of the project. Nine out of ten, 92 percent, say that they have high or medium high confidence in the project.
The poll was carried out by the company GfK in Lund between September 8 and 21. 1.400 phone interviews were carried out, where 1.000 were with people in Skåne and 400 were people who live in Malmö or represent companies in Malmö.