The Alpine Club's mountain bus is intended to encourage more Munich residents to forego their cars on hiking trips.
In order to continue the pilot project in autumn, it receives financial support from the Tegernsee valley.
Rottach-Egern
- The Munich mountain bus has started successfully. Since the start of the pilot phase on June 19, according to the DAV section Munich & Oberland, more than 650 people have used the touring bus of the Alpine Club section Munich & Oberland to get to the hiking areas in the mountains on Saturdays and Sundays. Each bus can replace up to 80 cars that would otherwise increase traffic and parking pressure. “A good thing,” said Mayor Christian Köck (CSU) in the local council. Together with the neighboring communities of Bad Wiessee and Kreuth, Rottach-Egern also supports the project financially in order to extend the pilot phase.
The municipality of Kreuth, in which the DAV mountain bus serves three stops on the Blauberge / Rofangebirge route (Riedlerbrücke, Wildbad and Klamm), will therefore commit itself with 5000 euros, according to Köck, the municipalities of Bad Wiessee with the stops at Söllbach and Rottach- Egern with the station at the Wallbergbahn for 2500 euros each. The project could thus be extended to the hiking season in autumn. Köck made it clear that every hiker who uses the bus does not burden the valley. The route was deliberately chosen over the west into the valley so that the DAV bus would not compete with the regular bus service of the RVO via Tegernsee.
Josef Kaiser (independent), on the other hand, did not like the financial commitment.
He complained that the Munich mountain bus does not only go to the hiking areas in the Tegernsee Valley, but also to Steinberg am Rofan and the Chiemgau and Ammergau Alps on the same route via Achenkirch.
DAV members paid 18 euros per ticket.
"It can therefore be assumed that the DAV can also pay for the bus itself," said Kaiser and wanted to know what the municipality of Rottach-Egern has already paid and to what extent the DAV has disclosed the financing to the municipalities.
"Don't nip dialogue with Munich residents in the bud"
Köck made it clear that the DAV had previously paid for the bus alone, but that the city of Munich would also contribute - and proportionately most of all municipalities. The districts of Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Traunstein and Miesbach are also required. "It should be a solidarity contribution," explained Köck. He reminded that the community could also fall back on funds from the DAV for the preparation of some hiking trails. "We should take advantage of the dialogue with the people of Munich and not nip it in the bud," demanded the town hall chief with a view to the tips and information that the mountaineers get from the DAV on the journey into the mountains.
In this way, all age groups would be sensitized to the protection of nature and, ultimately, the work of the local rangers would be made easier.
To enter into a dialogue with the people of Munich, who made up a large part of the guests in the Tegernsee Valley, was better than insulting and defaming such a large group, said Köck.
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