Brenner feed: Citizens' uprising against citizens' route

Created: 04/04/2022, 18:00

By: Josef Ametsbichler

Resident Nils Niederstebruch sketches a possible bridge course of 2200 meters across the Atteltal.

The railway states that the building would probably be shorter.

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Praised by politicians and included in the planning by the railways, the "Bürgertrasse" encountered resistance from residents of Aßling.

A citizens' initiative was founded, local residents are mobilizing.

Aßling

– A new citizens' initiative opposes the proposal of the "Bürgertrasse", the four-track expansion of the northern access to the Brenner Pass through the town of Aßling and east of the Attelleiten FFH area over a bridge.

"Protects Aßling and the Atteltal" - name and slogan at the same time.

The initiators had already drawn attention to themselves with a list of signatures.

Brenner-Nordzulauf: Citizens' initiative speaks of "extreme disappointment"

"We are immensely disappointed with the actions of some local politicians and local representatives in the state and federal parliaments," they wrote in a press release.

Instead of an extensive tunneling and thus "forcing a solution that is acceptable for everyone", they "did everything to just move the problem away from agricultural and commercial land".

Aßlinger Nils Niederstebruch, co-founder of the citizens' initiative, expresses two fears in particular in the event that the citizens' route is built: More noise pollution for the people of Aßling and "a bridge structure over two kilometers long and over 20 meters high in the middle of the protected area between Aßling and Straussdorf".

The combined design by the Niclasreuth engineer Andreas Brandmaier and Bruck's mayor Josef Schwäbl - variant "turquoise" - envisages the two-track expansion of the existing track going through the Aßling station.

Towards the north, the existing tracks are to be relocated to the east and two more to be added.

The Attelleiten FFH area is to be bypassed to the east on a bridge structure.

Bruck's Mayor Schwäbl: It doesn't need a 2200 meter long bridge

On the relevant section, the route follows the suggestion of Bruck's mayor Schwäbl.

When asked by EZ, he denied that such a 2,200 meter long bridge structure was needed.

"We don't want that." The railway, in turn, reports that Schwäbl's proposal "outlines a 2,200-meter-long viaduct between Pathendorf and Eisendorf".

The railway spokesman also emphasizes: "The required bridge structure in the turquoise main line will probably be shorter than in Mr. Schwäbl's proposal." More detailed information can only be given after the next round of dialogue on Wednesday.

Then the elevation of the Turquoise route will also be presented.

"It only alleviates the symptoms," says Niederstebruch from the citizens' initiative about a shorter bridge.

The Atteltal is a much-used local recreation area.

And Aßling's around 4,500 residents are also affected by more noise because the new line would be brought out of the protective forest.

Citizens' initiative: noise pollution for Aßlinger will increase

Anyway, the noise protection.

Niederstebruch argues that, despite such a new construction, the noise pollution for the people of Aßling will even increase - because the route, according to the railway forecast for 2040, "will be much more busy" and if the route is bypassed, most of the freight trains will be out of town.

The citizens' initiative is therefore also critical of the "Orange" and "Red" proposals, which lead through the train station and under the oil field.

Her favorite is the "yellow" variant, west of Niclasreuth.

A total of five proposals are in the running.

"We demand a wide bypass of settlement and landscape protection areas," said the signatories.

And, incidentally, this is what Aßling's mayor, Hans Fent, is still demanding: "largest possible tunneling of the route in the Ebersberg district".

The railway repeatedly refers to the enormous costs that are necessary for this, which is why such a tunnel is unrealistic.

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