The Kreisverband des Verkehrsclub Deutschland (VCD) has sharply criticized the majority of the airport's shareholders in favor of the sale of the property on which an event arena is to be built.
That is "a serious mistake" for the surrounding area.
Munich Airport - The planned concert arena at Munich Airport has cleared a major hurdle.
In a meeting of the airport shareholders, the city of Munich recently had to bow to the majority shareholder, the Free State of Bavaria.
Now the property on Freisinger Flur, on which the hall is planned, can be sold to the investor SWMunich Real Estate GmbH.
While Munich fears that many artists will no longer appear in the Olympic hall, but in the new hall, the district association of the German Transport Club (VCD) has also expressed harsh criticism of a "serious undesirable development" for the districts of Erding, Freising and Dachau.
VCD district chairman Alfred Schreiber expresses himself in a press release as follows: "Before the new federal government is in office, the airport operator will quickly create facts to burden the airport region with even more sealing and climate-damaging traffic," he says in consideration a concert and congress hall that will one day attract 20,000 visitors.
"It cannot be unanimous on the one hand to speak out in favor of climate protection and against further surface sealing, but then to want to tackle a new major project where there are a number of serious concerns," said Schreiber, who is sure: "The city of Freising will not benefit much from the hall, not even for prestige, because the concerts will not take place in Freising, but at Munich Airport." suck out of town. "There is a threat of ever-increasing urban sprawl, an unspeakable settlement mush between Freising and Erding," predicts Schreiber. The trade tax revenues would also be very limited at such venues.
Schreiber expects significantly more noise and pollutants at the expense of the health of the people in the vicinity of the airport.
He fears “that people will fly in extra to events - instead of flying to a musical in Hamburg to a concert at Munich Airport.
An increase in the number of unhealthy night flights is to be expected if the return journey takes place late in the evening after the events have ended, "says Schreiber, who mocks:" Instead of visiting a restaurant after the concert, the airport has the charm of a commercial area - with bad air and noise from planes. "
The hall is primarily used by the airport, which is looking for new business areas in order to be able to compensate for the future decrease in air traffic, according to Schreiber.
The disadvantages of the whole undertaking remained in Freising and the surrounding area.
Schreiber also criticizes the fact that a species-rich meadow is being built, which "leads to further urban sprawl and re-sealing of eleven hectares".
That is incompatible with environmental and climate protection.
Especially since the journey from Munich, Fürstenfeldbruck or Dachau, for example, is not a short one.
Schreiber concludes: “Such an event hall belongs in the city, ideally close to the center and easily accessible, and not in the Erdinger Moos.
The city of Freising would do well not to let this burdensome large-scale project be squeezed into their eyes. "