The MVV membership of the Miesbach district would make more sense than in any other district.
This was the result of an analysis by the MVV.
But it still takes some time to get started.
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- The experts from MVV Consulting counted four million inbound and outbound journeys for the Miesbach district in October 2020.
The start and finish of these “trips” were in the metropolitan area within a radius of 100 kilometers around the state capital Munich.
Whether commuters, day trippers, tourists or schoolchildren: no other of the potential districts of the MVV area has such strong “traffic interdependencies” as Miesbach, the representatives of the MVV, Felix Fitz and Alfred Ismair, now made clear in the district development committee.
The “traffic sense” of joining the district to the collective bargaining system is therefore greater than anywhere else.
Evaluation matrix shows districts in comparison
For comparison, the experts brought along an evaluation matrix that they created in the first phase of an expansion of the MVV area, which has not changed since 1972. With an overall result of 18 points, the district of Miesbach ranks at the top by a wide margin. The Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen district followed with 13 points, followed by Rosenheim (city and district) and Landshut (city and district) with 11 points each. Assuming the predicted population growth in the district of Miesbach, the values here are likely to even increase, explained Fitz.
It was also exciting to see how the traffic flows.
So by no means only the axis to and from Munich is relevant here (1.28 million journeys in October 2020).
Even 1.32 million trips were made between Bad Tölz and Miesbach, 1.18 million to and from Rosenheim (city and district).
The MVV area was included in 2.33 million journeys.
The commuter quota in the Miesbach district in 2019 was 41.5 percent (outbound commuters) and 35.7 percent (inbound commuters).
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On the weekends, on the other hand, the state capital of Munich in particular gets moving.
The mobile phone data for the weekend days in August 2020 showed almost four million trips from the city of Munich. The Miesbach district appears three times in the list of top 10 destinations: Schliersee in fourth place, Kreuth in sixth place and Rottach-Egern eighth place.
For Fitz and Ismair, this is another argument in favor of expanding the MVV.
The integration of the districts with the most popular leisure destinations would create an attractive alternative to private transport on the streets.
Now the economic factors are to be examined
But the traffic-wise sense of joining the MVV is only the first part of the analysis. Phase 2 should now examine the economic factors. With the help of passenger surveys, the experts want to develop a “migration concept” with possible tariff and timetable adjustments. Because of the corona-related decline in passenger numbers, the surveys have recently been postponed again and again. But they have been running in the Miesbach district since June 2021. To get a representative result, they will take a full year. Only then can the financial effects of joining the MVV be shown.
Because a lot of preparatory work has already been done in the Miesbach district with the update of the local transport plan), this could be the first to be included in the extended network together with Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen, Weilheim-Schongau Ost as well as the city and district of Rosenheim.
Ismair named the end of 2023 as the “very optimistic” start date.
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That made Karl Bär (Greens) swallow.
“What can we as a county do to speed up the process?” Asked Bär.
Unfortunately, nothing, replied Ismair.
The schedule is already "highly ambitious" and can only be kept if all those involved, and thus also the respective political bodies in the districts, pull together.
In any case, the cooperation with Miesbach and Bad Tölz is already going very well, said Ismair.
District Administrator Olaf von Löwis (CSU) assured that it will stay that way.
"We continue at full throttle, from our point of view it can't go fast enough."
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