The XXL air filters on Landshuter Allee will be installed from November.
The city council dealt with the issue yesterday and some members suggested an alternative.
Munich - The pollutant filters on Landshuter Allee are only the second best solution.
Says the CSU.
Their city councilor Sebastian Schall took the opportunity at the general assembly yesterday to bring the Landshuter Allee tunnel back on the agenda.
As reported, Munich’s advisor for climate and environmental protection, Christine Kugler (non-party) wants to have the first seven air filter systems installed on the route as early as the beginning of November, with two more to follow.
The systems are designed to clean pollutants from the air.
This is the start of a pilot project for air filters in the Free State.
CSU City Councilor Sebastian Schall: "One more fly beaten"
Schall said that he generally welcomed the field test, but that a tunnel would have "killed one more fly".
"The noise for the residents would have been reduced." As reported, the Greens and the SPD had removed the Landshuter Allee tunnel from the agenda.
Alternatively, solutions should be sought to reduce pollutants and noise for residents.
"In the short term, the air filter systems will mean improvements for the residents," said SPD councilor Julia Schmitt-Thiel.
It could only be a temporary solution.
But it helps to reduce pollution much faster than a tunnel that would not be built so quickly.
"But the major goal must remain to strengthen the environmental network so that we no longer have to set up air filters."
Green boss Florian Roth: This is how air filters work in Stuttgart
These air filters are already in place in Stuttgart, as Green boss Florian Roth explained.
At the Neckartor traffic junction, pollutant levels have fallen by nine percent, "close to the buildings between ten and 19 percent".
That is remarkable.
That is why he found the attempt in Munich “very positive”.
But Roth agreed with the CSU City Councilor Schall.
"It's only the second-best solution, the best would be a quick turnaround in traffic to electric cars and public transport."