450 truckloads in the middle of the traffic chaos between Hausham and Schliersee?
That was the plan of the railway for the track construction work in this area.
Now there is an alternative route.
Hausham / Schliersee
- Even the numbers sound impressive - for residents and drivers even rather scary: 10,000 tons or the equivalent of almost 450 truck loads of track ballast have to be moved during the upgrading of the railway line between Miesbach and Bayrischzell that has now started.
Resident speaks of "Highway to hell"
The rock is not simply deposited next to the embankment, but brought to a central storage area. Because it is located at Fischhausen train station, the trucks coming from Hausham have to take the route through Schliersee, which is already heavily used in terms of traffic, every time - and thus also pass the construction site at the Westenhofen level crossing. “That's amazing”, writes a reader from the “Highway to Hell” in Schliersee.
When asked by our newspaper, the responsible engineering office Infra from Rosenheim confirms that the gravel will be brought to Fischhausen.
The Deutsche Bahn is responsible for this, emphasizes engineer Konrad Haindl.
However, he assumes that there is ultimately no other usable location in the immediate vicinity.
The reason: The ballast is not simply stored temporarily and then reinstalled, but must first be examined for pollutants.
This is only possible if the stones are appropriately distributed and not just lying on a ten-meter-high pile.
That is why it needs a sufficiently large area.
Engineer recommends route across Leitzach Valley
Since contaminated sites are not uncommon in the rail network, Haindl assumes that only part of the ballast can be brought back to Hausham.
At least here, then, the number of truck journeys could be reduced.
In order not to aggravate the traffic jam and the stress for the residents in Schliersee, the executing company Spitzke was advised to use the Bemberg-Wörnsmühl-Fischbachau route.
So the recommendation that also applies to regional car traffic.
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Otherwise you try to make the best of the situation, assures Haindl.
The aim is to straighten the bumpy road in Westenhofen with plastic sheets so that the traffic runs smoothly again.
The single-lane system with traffic light control can only be canceled if the railway has dismantled a camera mast that is no longer needed later.
Incidentally, Haindl can very well empathize with the feelings of drivers and residents.
Every time on the way home from the office from Rosenheim to Wasserburg he hears traffic jam between Neuhaus and Hausham on the radio, "I get cold," says the engineer.
"You just feel responsible for your construction sites."
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