The horror of the coarse route planning of the railway to the Brenner inlet through the Ebersberg district is great among the affected communities.
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- Aßling's mayor Hans Fent (non-party) appears audibly taken with the phone call with the development cooperation.
He confesses that he lay awake for hours brooding.
The revelation of the rail plans for the northern access to the Brenner last Thursday were a massive blow for the southern community.
"Each variant is a disaster for Aßling," says Fent of the four proposed route proposals west of the town center.
"I feel really sick."
The mayor sums up what annoys him in one sentence: “I miss the tunnel.” With a view to his location, he could not imagine an existing track upgrade.
The railway will not allow its high-speed line to be slowed down by the Aßlinger through-traffic.
But he was “seriously disappointed” with the current result.
Brenner north inlet in the Ebersberg district: Less tunnels than in the Inntal
South of Ostermünchen on the Inntal section, a route with around 60 percent tunnels was chosen for the planned track construction.
Each of the four rail proposals for the southern district of Ebersberg is far from this.
Even more: Since Fent heard rumors that the railway was having a tunnel under the Inn examined instead of a bridge, he fears that the connection with the existing line to the Aßlinger train station could slip due to the greater space requirement.
However, DB planners consider this variant to be almost impossible.
Either way, the planned above-ground route not only cuts through the landscape, but also a community that only grew together with the inclusion of Loitersdorf during the regional reform in the seventies, complains Fent.
Big politics will have to deal with these worries.
Grafing: Fear of "islanding" through new tracks
A neighbor argues in a similar way: "Grafing is very badly affected," says the local mayor Christian Bauer (CSU). The towns of Oberelkofen and Eisendorf, for example, were in danger of being "islanded", with tracks on the left and right. Also in the dialogue forums it was not communicated that the link to Munich would only take place north of Grafing - massive construction work on the existing building would therefore affect Schammach and Grafing-Bahnhof. “That didn't go well,” says Bauer about the railroad dialogue. The group did not bring out the rough route planning until the end. “We weren't involved in the right dealings,” says Bauer.
He, too, gives bad opportunities to the expansion close to the line.
"It is more beneficial to try to tunnel under," he says.
He hoped for the effect of public protest - "regularly, better communicated, lasting".
"Nothing will change there without the support of the population," fears Bauer.
Criticism of the dialogue with the railway
Josef Schwäbl, Mayor of Bruck, who organized a citizens' protest at the weekend, announced that he would now like to talk to the neighbors “in order to come to a good solution with Aßling at the municipal boundary”.
The railway did not adhere to its own announcements about landscape protection.
Because the train speed is 30 or 40 km / h higher, the planned cut is not justified.
"There will still be a lot to be discussed about the speed," announced Schwäbl.
The protest will continue.
Jan Paeplow, CSU Mayor of Kirchseeon, could breathe a sigh of relief that his community should not get new tracks.
But he continues to worry about noise protection on the route and also wants to show solidarity with the southern communities.
"The railway goes to great lengths to do things according to the textbook," states Paeplow.
"But there is no sensitivity for the real conditions."
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