The community of Denklingen is about to reject reactivation of the Fuchstalbahn once and for all.
There is already a corresponding proposal for a resolution for the municipal council.
Mayor Andreas Braunegger has now put it back in the drawer, but should soon get it out again.
In Hohenfurch, too, resistance to the planned round table in Schongau is great.
Denklingen wanted to reject the reactivation of the Fuchstalbahn
But then the council meeting was canceled
The topic was also discussed in Hohenfurch: with the resolution proposal from Denklingen
A round table in Schongau should now be awaited before the decisions are made
Denklingen / Hohenfurch
- As reported several times, half the district is eagerly awaiting the presentation of a key issues paper, which the traffic engineer and station owner Andreas Holzhey has announced to the communities bordering the Fuchstalbahn.
Schongau's mayor, Falk Sluyterman, wants to invite you to the presentation of the paper in the town hall of Lechstadt.
Actually, the appointment should go over the stage in November.
As can be heard, the round table had to be postponed to the coming year due to the corona restrictions.
The mayor of Denklingen does not believe that the train will be better accepted than the bus
That is why there is now a kind of grace period for the Fuchstalbahn from Denklingen: “To be fair, we will still wait for the round table,” says Mayor Andreas Braunegger.
But he confirms that the town hall of the Lechrain community is toying with rejecting the reactivation of passenger traffic on the Fuchstalbahn.
Braunegger makes no secret of the fact that he personally considers the idea to be superfluous: even the bus that stops in town and goes to Landsberg, Schongau and Kaufbeuren is hardly accepted, the mayor observed.
"Then why should a train that stops outside the site be better accepted?" He asks.
The opinion in the Denklingen town hall had already been put on paper in the form of a proposed resolution and should be presented to the municipal council in November.
As can be heard, the meeting was canceled.
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Guntram Vogelsgesang presented the resolution proposal from Denklingen to his local council in Hohenfurch.
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The reactivation of the Fuchstalbahn was also recently discussed in the Hohenfurch municipal council.
The fatal: Mayor Guntram Vogelsgesang submitted the draft resolution from Denklingen to the councils without knowing that the colleagues in Lechrain had not yet discussed it, let alone made a resolution.
Vogelsgesang let his local council know when it was presented that he found the paper "honestly too hard" (we reported).
The Hohenfurch town hall chief is also not a fan of reactivation efforts
The Hohenfurch mayor, like his colleague Braunegger from Denklingen, is anything but a friend of the reactivation efforts of the Schongau-Landsberg railway line for local passenger transport.
Vogelsgesang suggested that the local council bring other communities on board.
"So that it is not always presented as if we are the bad guys who categorically reject everything." On request, he added on Tuesday that the municipal council would still get the topic on the agenda before the round table in Schongau.
A decision is not yet to be expected, he said.
For good reason: According to Vogelsgesang, the Schongau town hall chief sent an email and asked the municipalities not to take any negative decisions on the Fuchstalbahn before the round table.
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Andreas Brauneggerwill only let his local council decide after the round table.
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For the time being, the draft resolution will remain under lock and key in Denklingen.
Andreas Braunegger wants to take part in the round table in Schongau himself before he takes it out of the drawer.
According to reports, Andreas Holzhey will show the reactivation options in the spring.
“Maybe he has a magic box,” says Braunegger, who of course remains skeptical.
Traffic engineer warns against too great expectations in his key issues paper
Andreas Holzhey himself recently warned against too high expectations: "I have to make it clear that the key issues paper cannot be an expert opinion and certainly not a draft plan with a cost estimate in the sense of the fee schedule," he emphasized in an email to SN.
The paper will neither give a total amount of the costs nor present a finished operating concept.
Holzhey: "The key points paper will show funding opportunities, but it is not to be understood as a legal opinion or as a guide to applying for funding." If all these requirements were met, "the key points paper would be an opinion worth several 10,000 euros" the traffic engineer clear.
"I create the key issues paper free of charge in my spare time and of course I can't afford what engineers and lawyers would otherwise work for months."
Holzhey first and foremost wants to clarify: "Some of the decision-makers feel badly informed, and some discussions are based on arguments that are long out of date from the 1980s," he reports.
At the round table, he wants to bring the “decision-makers” up to date.
The key issues paper is intended to "serve as a basis for further discussions and investigations".
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