Continuous operation, braking tests at night and high noise barriers: the information for citizens about the planned subway depot south in Neuperlach included details that not everyone likes.
Munich - The new depot is to be built east of the above-ground Neuperlach-Süd * subway station and complement the only subway depot in Fröttmaning to date. The aim is to create the necessary conditions for the further expansion of the subway and the turnaround in traffic in Munich. On the area between Arnold-Sommerfeld-Straße, Lise-Meitner-Weg and the allotment gardens to the southeast there will be four halls and three peripheral buildings. There is also a parking facility that can accommodate up to 60 underground trains *.
The centerpiece is the workshop hall, each with four tracks and work stations, one of which has a lifting system for a complete train.
The trains are maintained and repaired here, and they are washed right next door.
There are also offices, workshops and technical rooms all around.
Work is carried out around the clock, seven days a week.
A surprise, because when the project was presented earlier, SWM had denied night-time operation.
"Depending on the air pressure, the sound propagation in the area is already considerable," says Roland Fischer, "that will be even more exciting, especially with 24/7 operation." The former deputy head of the Munich SPD lives diagonally across from ex-city councilor Bettina Messinger .
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Vortex about planned brake tests
In order to “protect the residents from noise in the best possible way”, a total of three mostly green noise protection walls are planned around the depot. Height: eight meters - along the Lise-Meitner-Weg over a length of 250 meters. In the east, a four-meter wall is placed on top of the multi-storey perimeter structure. "An eight-meter-high wall - that too will give rise to exciting debates on site," predicts Fischer. The 140 meter long wall on the S7 route should not only absorb the S-Bahn noise *, but also the noise from the “acceptance track” running parallel.
Surprise number three in the long-planned project: According to the noise protection report, up to 120 brake tests at speeds between 30 and 60 km / h are possible there between 10 p.m. and 6 a.m.
How often the brakes actually screech in the end was not explained.
Outcry in the chat, in which, according to SWM, over 300 questions were asked.
New depot in Munich-Neuperlach: Completion currently planned for 2027
The plans are "in the final spurt", says SWM project manager Florian Bals.
In autumn, the city council should approve everything so that the planning approval procedure can be initiated with the government of Upper Bavaria at the beginning of 2022.
Construction is to start in 2024, and the municipal utilities plan to start operating the plant in stages at the end of 2026.
The entire depot should be ready by mid-2027.
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