www.lightrail.nl/kuehn - Stavanger station 2006

Workshop Stavanger station 9/2006

Since about 2005 plans for a re-development of Stavanger's railway station have been put forward by the railway authorities. More recently these plans did find support from Statsbygg who are looking for a suitable site for a new court house in Stavanger.

Although the Stavanger Bybane concept since the late 90s does involve a TramTrain-extension from the main station towards the city centre, no decision had been taken yet regarding a preferred corridor for this extension (mainly a question whether to go left or right around the Breivatnet lake!).

Within the formal process to deal with the development proposal and to identify the municipality view on it, Stavanger Kommune did perform two workshops in September/October 2006. The first of these workshops was somewhat the "traffic" related one, aiming to establish the framework for the second one, dealing more in detail with the development project as such.

This meant that the whole corridor discussion for the Bybane now had to be dealt with under quite some time pressure within the station development project.

Looking back on quite some years of co-operation both in terms of Stavanger Bybane and more recently the Hitrans project, Hans Magnar Lien of Stavanger Kommune has been seeking support by Axel Kuehn (and also Rob van der Bijl) regarding the traffic related workshop, which took place on September 25th/26th.

Kuehn and van der Bijl first showed the workshop participants a wide range of options both for the integration of rail corridors in the urban fabric and for station developments; introduced then evaluation criteria for the discussion (and finally choice) of options and have been guiding through the group work.

The Stavanger workshop under the described conditions was a very challenging experience with quite interesting results.



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