Symbolic politics with no chance of success

Created: 03/18/2022, 1:00 p.m

By: Timo Aichele

Timo Aichele, Deputy Editor-in-Chief © Aichele

The dispute over the Dorfen railway expansion turns an extra round in the city council.

Now it's time to bend this infinite loop.

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Dorfen

– The resentment in Dorfen about the DZSF report is only too understandable.

The years of commitment to better rail expansion would have deserved a less sloppy answer.

Nevertheless, the fair has been read: The ministry has already buried the lowering à la Vieregg, citing this study.

And if Berlin reacts to the new advance from Dorfen in any significant way, then the signal will be set to red again.

Finally, DB Netz AG also argues with the enormous cost risks of Dorfen's desired solution.

The demand for a planning freeze is therefore nothing but symbolic politics.

Because the city is not the client of the engineers of DB Netz AG, but the federal government.

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Even if the sloppiness in calculating the property costs is eliminated, the Vieregg variant is more expensive by a double-digit million amount, according to DB Netz and DZSF.

The fact that Martin Vieregg persistently claims the exact opposite has not yet convinced those responsible and will not do so in another round of arguments.

It is now in the hands of the Dorfen city council that this nerve-racking episode – which was also quite expensive for the city with planning costs of 100,000 euros – does not become an endless loop.

This railway line has been single-track for a good 150 years, and this must also change with regard to an ecological traffic turnaround.

And with the level crossings there is still homework to be done in Dorfen.

The motto here should be: full throttle ahead.