Government program

What red-pink has and hasn’t implemented since 2020

SPÖ government team at the start of the 2020 coalition: Mayor Michael Ludwig (center) with city councillors Peter Hacker, Veronika Kaup-Hasler, Ulli Sima, Jürgen Czernohorszky, Kathrin Gaál and Peter Hanke (from left to right). Missing from the picture is Deputy Mayor Christoph Wiederkehr from the NEOS.(Bild: C.Jobst)

Vienna's city government took office just over four years ago. Red-Pink had big plans. We took a look at what has been implemented from the ambitious government program, what is on track and what is not.

Let's start with the positives. On the government monitor, which can be viewed by everyone here, a lot of things are flashing green. This means that these projects have been completed and implemented (as at the end of October 2024). Our graphic below shows an excerpt of the most important projects (it would go beyond the scope of this article to list them all).