They are doing this because the green party is in the government now. This is a long-standing demand of the green party to lower CO2 emissions. They first did t

They are doing this because the green party is in the government now. This is a long-standing demand of the green party to lower CO2 emissions. They first did this in Vienna a few years ago, when they were in the city government. Now they are in the federal government and are rolling this out for all of Austria, since it was a huge success in Vienna, car travel was dramatically reduced.