Chur West (Rhaetian Railway station)

Chur Chur West was an industrial district. Now there arises a newly designed city quarter of Chur, the capital of the canton of Graubünden. It will change the cityscape and the transport infrastructure fundamentally with the planned completion in autumn 2012.

The new quarter

Churchill West is all transport planning projects of the agglomeration program for Churchill, which with a traffic increase in the metropolitan area of Chur 40 percent expected by 2020 at the center. For the guidance of individual a large roundabout is provided at the motorway exit Chur-South, which provides shuttle services to the city and in the villages of the surrounding countryside towards Domat / Ems, Haldenstein and Lenzerheide. Thus, from here reached the St. Luzibrücke and made ​​available to the Schanfigg bypassing the city of Chur.

Under the leadership of architect Thomas Domenig produces two high-rise buildings, each 70 meters high twin towers.

Was on 11 November 2011 as the first of three stages of completion opened the mall.

Breakpoint Chur West

2000 was opened the same stop of the Rhaetian Railway on the railway land quart Thusis in the neighborhood. The dual breakpoint is serviced by lines S1 and S2 S-Bahn Chur and from the Regio Express line RE 3 from Disentis exclusively in the direction Scuol / Scuol. As emphasized in the concept of the canton of Grisons, a continuation of the SBB regional trains brick bridge -Sargans country quart Chur is planned on the three rail track from Chur to Domat / Ems to the RhB - stop EMS work. These trains should also serve Chur West.

Gallery

Bauabschrankung

Chur railway station West

Source

• Norbert Waser (economics editor at the daily paper Grisons ): Everything revolves around Chur West, in: Terra Grischuna 5/2009, pp. 20-23