After a waiting period of around 30 years, the new foot and bicycle underpass will open at the Poing S-Bahn station on Monday. Just by the way, without a party.
Poing - The Poing band could have marched and played from south to north and back, followed by a cluster of people. A pageant due to the new underpass at the Poinger S-Bahn station, which has been declared by many local politicians in particular as THE link between old and new Poing, between south and north. On both sides takeaways and, why not, an entire festival weekend to celebrate the connection between the two districts. Well. You could imagine all of this in your imagination and maybe you could actually have done it in reality, but because of Corona, nothing of the sort is possible. Not even a symbolic cut through a barrier tape. The new foot and bicycle underpass will be released on Monday, April 27. Just because. From noon, it says from the town hall. "In view of the current situation, an official inauguration will not take place," says the municipality.
Scoffers could now say: As sober and bleak as the underpass currently looks (almost no green, no colors), this form of opening fits. Still, she deserved a big party. For over 30 years, the municipality of Poing and the respective mayors and councilors had discussed their construction and argued with Deutsche Bahn AG. Plans were drawn up and rejected, responsibilities at the railroad changed from time to time, contacts for the community came and went. But nothing went forward with the construction for years. When the groundbreaking took place in June 2018, it was almost a miracle. Out of gratitude that there will still be something in the building in this life, Mayor Albert Hingerl made the pilgrimage to Altötting on foot.
The new underpass costs 9.5 million euros, which now connects old and new poing barrier-free. However, it is not yet easy to get to the platforms themselves from the underpass: The train that is responsible for this has announced that it will not be able to make the Poinger S-Bahn station barrier-free until next year. Although the community had offered to do this at the same time as the underpass, in one wash. But the train has its own schedules.
The new underpass itself, whose owner is not the railway but the municipality, was planned much wider at the beginning of the planning than it has now become. For cost reasons. At the beginning, there was also talk of options for installing a kiosk or showcases in the underpass.
It will be opened on Monday without a sound. The big celebration could be rescheduled when Deutsche Bahn has completed the barrier-free expansion for which it is responsible. Provided that this also takes place in this life.
In the next step after the opening, the municipality and the municipal council must consider how the former parking area on the south side of the station will be redesigned. Here, according to initial ideas, a parking deck or parking garage could be built. The redesign of Bahnhofstrasse in the south and the market square on the north side are also under discussion. At the latest when all of this is complete, a big feast is needed.
