The pressure on the transport network in the Munich district is increasing.
Everywhere in the surrounding area, commercial areas are being expanded and new residential areas are being built.
The southeast is booming.
But there is a particular problem with local transport.
District
- In its most recent meeting, the district council reaffirmed its will to continue expanding the U5 from Neuperlach Süd. The extended U5 is supposed to serve the Ludwig-Bölkow-Campus in Taufkirchen / Ottobrunn and thus soon the largest faculty for aerospace research in Europe. But the implementation is difficult. Because state subsidies are denied to the district. And without it, the district cannot cope with this mammoth project. The background to this is the currently valid procedure of the “standardized assessment of investment in transport routes in rail-based public transport”. That puts the expected costs above the benefits of a U5 extension. "We can now only hope that the federal government will finance the project," said District Administrator Christoph Göbel (CSU).
Four routes for maglev trains are conceivable
Possible alternative means of local transport must therefore be found.
These include the cable car and the Ottobahn recently developed by a Munich start-up (we reported).
At the end of next year, the first Ottobahn gondolas are to be tested for suitability for everyday use on a test track near Taufkirchen.
The magnetic levitation train, the transport system Bögl (TSB), is also within reach.
TSB drives autonomously and offers space for 250 people in its prototype with two train parts.
The technology has been developed to market readiness by a company from Upper Palatinate.
The Max Bögl Group has been running a test track for freight traffic at its headquarters in Sengenthal for a few days.
Passenger transport has been tested in Chengdu, China, since September 2019.
The Federal Railway Authority gave the Transport System Bögl (TSB) its blessing a year ago.
Essential parts of the vehicle and the route are therefore considered to be eligible.
The Free Voters in the district council see the Bögl system as a supplement to the U- and S-Bahn.
TSB is to develop the airport and exhibition grounds and tangentially connect underserved regions between two S-Bahn branches.
Trolleybuses to bridge the gap
Four possible routes are conceivable in the Munich district: the U5 extension from Neuperlach-Süd via Ottobrunn to Taufkirchen;
the U6 extension from Garching-Hochbrück to Unterschleißheim, the north-east bypass from Unterschleißheim via Garching, Unterföhring, Riem to Haar and from Dachau to Moosach (U3) or Feldmoching (U2).
As with the subway, ten years will pass before the first maglev train starts rolling.
As a forerunner of the extended U5, District Administrator Göbel therefore favors electrically powered trolleybuses.
Trolleybuses and trams are to serve the region at regular intervals on their own route, free of interference from car traffic.
After the introduction of the U5, the buses are to remain in operation and expanded as an O-System to open up the south-east in an east-west direction. The advantage: trolleybuses could start running after four to five years. at
