Airport: New approach for ICE train station
Created: 12/15/2022, 07:00
By: Sascha Karowski
The ICE is currently driving past the airport.
© Christoph Schmidt/dpa
Whether Transrapid or express S-Bahn: For years, politicians have been looking for ways to better connect Munich Airport to local transport - because traveling by S-Bahn sometimes takes 40 minutes.
Greens, CSU and SPD in Munich City Hall are now making a renewed push for an ICE stop in Erdinger Moos.
Airport - With a long-distance train station, the airport would have a direct connection to the long-distance traffic of Deutsche Bahn.
In the joint application, Mayor Dieter Reiter (SPD) is asked to campaign for the ICE to stop at the federal level.
According to the application, air and rail transport must be better networked.
A long-distance train connection to the airport should be included in the federal transport route plan.
The idea is not new, because Deutsche Bahn also has corresponding ambitions.
The journey time for passengers between the main train station and the airport in the ICE would be reduced to 15 minutes.
The plans envisage a new high-speed line to Ingolstadt and a branch from there and from the line to Landshut to the airport.
The railway planners estimate the cost of the project at around five billion euros.
"The train must become a real alternative to flying if we want to reduce the number of short flights," says CSU City Councilor Hans Hammer.
People who need to get from A to B quickly would be slowed down at Munich Airport.
“First taking the S-Bahn to the city and then catching the connecting train takes time and is nerve-wracking.
The risk of a delay increases with every change.” Many people would therefore prefer to take the connecting flight to Frankfurt or Zurich.
SPD city councilor Klaus Peter Rupp adds: “We need an efficient long-distance train station at the airport.
This is the only way we can effectively reduce the number of domestic flights as a feeder for intercontinental flights.” And the number of car journeys to the airport would also be reduced if people could travel directly by train and not first into the city and then again 40 minutes by S -Train would have to go out.
"It is a decisive disadvantage that Munich Airport has not yet had any long-distance connections," says Green City Councilor Paul Bickelbacher.
"We Greens in particular are calling for avoiding short-haul flights." Possibly the long-distance train connection will also open up a better and, above all, more reliable connection for the city of Munich and thus avoid trips by Auto.ska
