For years the plans for a four-track expansion of the railway line between Neufahrn and Freising were inactive.
Now the project comes back into focus.
Freising
- In October 2010, the news from the Ministry of Economic Affairs caused a sigh of relief in Pulling.
The four-track expansion of the line between Neufahrn and Freising, which was planned in connection with the Erdinger Ringschluss, is off the table and will be an issue again in 2020 at the earliest.
Now it's 2021. And now the controversial measure is back on the agenda.
As reported, 181 rail projects were evaluated as part of the Deutschlandtakt.
One of them: the four-track expansion between Freising and Neufahrn.
And because the cost-benefit ratio is 1.4 and is therefore positive, the measure was included in the urgent requirement of the federal transport infrastructure plan.
Pullingern threatens noise pollution
While the Pro Bahn passenger association considers the expansion to be “sensible” because it defuses the “worst timetable conflict” in the greater Munich area, the affected communities of Freising and Neufahrn see it somewhat differently. Eva Bönig, Second Mayor of the City of Freising, recalled that this project was "not without problems" more than ten years ago - and it will not be now either. Because the noise pollution for the district of Pulling would be extreme. At that time it was assumed that the Pullinger Wall, i.e. long noise barriers across the village, had been called for a trough or even a tunnel.
What Bönig “irritates”, and what she considers “very strange”, is the fact that they learned about the investigation of the measure and the result by the press, more precisely: by the press release from Pro Bahn.
That was probably the least that the Federal Ministry of Transport would have informed the city of Freising (and the other municipalities) directly.
Because the involvement of the municipalities is essential.
Track expansion would relieve train traffic
Bönig now assumes that the mayors of the city of Freising and the affected municipalities of the so-called Northern Alliance will sit down and discuss the situation. The communities of Eching, Unter- and Oberschleißheim and others could possibly also be affected if the demand from Pro Bahn to strive for the four-track expansion between Neufahrn and Feldmoching is enforced. In any case, they will certainly get in touch with the ministry.
Neufahrn's mayor Franz Heilmeier emphasizes that a four-track expansion between Neufahrn counter curve and Freising would not affect the passage through Neufahrn.
Should it turn out differently, noise protection measures in accordance with the Immission Control Act would of course be important.
“Basically”, so Heilmeier's conviction, which he shares with the passenger association Pro Bahn, an expansion would mean “a great relief”, as a separation between freight and regional traffic on the one hand and S-Bahn on the other would prevent delays.
Mayor considers Pro-Bahn demand for "placebo"
Bönig does not even see the demand from Pro Bahn to implement the four-track expansion between Neufahrn and Feldmoching with new tracks along the motorway in order to relieve the places of the noise of regional and freight trains passing through and to improve the reliability of the S 1 realizable at.
That would be an "eternal work" and should rather be viewed as a "placebo".
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