Mariahilfer Straße

During the Second World War, the road sustained significant damage, but post-war reconstruction efforts ensured its continued development as one of the city's most popular shopping streets.

[4] In 2010, the Red-Green coalition government decided to gradually convert sections of inner Mariahilfer Straße into a pedestrian zone.

[5] In early 2014, a citizen survey in the districts of Mariahilf and Neubau supported maintaining the traffic-calmed area, allowing car crossings, and keeping cycling permitted.

The project, which was led by Green deputy mayor Maria Vassilakou, faced criticism, including from their coalition partner, the SPÖ, although it was ultimately successful.

These unofficial names are nevertheless used colloquially, as well as by the media and in traffic announcements or underground station entrance signs to distinguish between the sections either side of the Gürtel.

Four metro stations servicing three separate lines lie along the Mariahilfer Straße, Museumsquartier (U2) and the Westbahnhof (U3, U6) on either end, with Neubaugasse and Zieglergasse (both U3) in between.