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Tunnel Englischer Garten in Munich: initiators want to keep fighting - BA boss criticizes the city

2022-04-07T15:33:48.301Z


Tunnel Englischer Garten in Munich: initiators want to keep fighting - BA boss criticizes the city Created: 04/07/2022, 17:30 By: Sascha Karowski The image combo shows a photo of the "Mittlerer Ring" on the left, a four-lane road that previously crossed the English Garden in the north of Munich (Bavaria). On the right you can see the computer graphics of a Munich architect's office, on which th


Tunnel Englischer Garten in Munich: initiators want to keep fighting - BA boss criticizes the city

Created: 04/07/2022, 17:30

By: Sascha Karowski

The image combo shows a photo of the "Mittlerer Ring" on the left, a four-lane road that previously crossed the English Garden in the north of Munich (Bavaria).

On the right you can see the computer graphics of a Munich architect's office, on which the street runs in a tunnel.

© Grub-Lejeune

Schwabing district politicians and the couple Hermann Grub and Petra Lejeune want to continue fighting for a tunnel under the English Garden.

BA boss Patric Wolf will write to Mayor Dieter Reiter, Grub and Lejeune are planning a petition to the state parliament.

Munich - The fight for the tunnel at the English Garden continues.

District politicians from the Schwabing-Freimann district committee and the architect couple Hermann Grub and Petra Lejeune do not want to bury the project just yet.

A letter to Mayor Dieter Reiter (SPD) should help.

In addition, the initiators are examining a petition for the Bavarian state parliament.

Tunnel Englischer Garten: The city council voted in favor of the project in 2017, not in 2022

In 2017, the city council unanimously voted in favor of the project.

The building department started its work and, as part of the preliminary investigations in November last year, came to the conclusion that 890 trees would have to be felled for the tunnel instead of the originally planned 550.

The ranks of advocates dwindled - up to the final decision of the majority factions of the Greens and SPD in March not to pursue the plans any further.


A dispute has now broken out at the level of the district committee about the genesis of this decision.

The board feels left out.

The building department wrote to BA chief Patric Wolf (CSU) that involving the district politicians in a decision was no longer expedient because the Greens and SPD, i.e. the city council majority, had already ended the project.

"That annoys me," says Wolf.

"The project will be discontinued without involving the BA and the public." The committee has never been given insight into the plans, so it is unclear to Wolf how the number of 890 trees came about.

"If the project is so terrible, then show us the plans." That's exactly what he wants to demand in the letter to Mayor Reiter.


Tunnel Englischer Garten: BA boss Patric Wolf criticized that the BA was not involved

For Wolf, the question in the room is whether the BA should not have been listened to.

Wolf agrees. However, there is no city council resolution, no draft resolution for a planning approval procedure.

Formally, the project has not yet progressed beyond the status of political decision-making in the Greens and SPD.

At least the BA has now decided to initiate a plan approval procedure.


Key word: formation of will.

Grub and Lejeune organized a survey in 2015, according to which 83 percent of the participants spoke out in favor of the tunnel.

It should be 390 meters long and ban the cars on the Isarring in the depths.

Its green surface would reconnect the two halves of the English Garden.

Grub and Lejeune have campaigned for the tunnel for more than eight years.

"Now we are examining a petition to the state parliament," says Grub.

The fight goes on.

Munich: The tunnel under the English Garden will cost 200 million euros

The English Garden Tunnel project was initiated by the Schwabing architect couple Hermann Grub and Petra Lejeune.

Most recently, costs of around 200 million euros were mentioned.

The Free State wanted to provide 35 million euros and the federal government 2.67 million euros for the planning.

Construction was supposed to start in 2023, but the Greens and SPD decided in early March to discontinue the project.

According to the building department, 890 trees would have had to be felled instead of the originally planned 550 trees.

According to Grub and Lejeune, however, only 368 trees would have to be felled.

However, it is unclear how valid these numbers are.

Source: merkur

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