Commentary on the ICE train station at Munich Airport: The airport is pursuing pure utopia

Created: 05/13/2022, 09:31 am

By: Dirk Walter

A comment by Dirk Walter © Michael Kappeler/Klaus Haag

After several years of preparation, a concept for an ICE train station at Munich Airport was presented in the Bavarian state parliament.

The result is sobering, comments author Dirk Walter.

Munich Airport - It's a sobering result: After reading the (extremely dry) four-stage concept that the Ministry of Transport presented to the state parliament after several years (!) of preliminary work, one can justifiably say: an ICE stop at Airport - that's nothing more than a utopia.

The planned long-distance train station at the airport takes on a whole new meaning - it really is a long way away.

A new line from Ingolstadt to Munich via Neufahrn would be needed to run ICE trains as elegantly as in Frankfurt from the main station to the airport station and then further north.

But, as the Green MP Johannes Becher explains, they can only be classified as megalomania.

There is no longer any room in the greater Munich area for rail projects of this magnitude.

ICE train station at Munich Airport: Concentrate on what is feasible

No, the airport will have to concentrate on what is feasible.

All hopes are pinned on the completion of the Erdinger Ringschluss and the (locally disputed) Walpertskirchener Spange, which would enable long-distance trains, for example from Salzburg or Vienna, to continue via the airport to Regensburg/Nuremberg.

That would be something.

The financial requirements for this are also enormous – and it will take time.

Reasons are also omissions in the past.

For a long time, the federal transport ministers and their entourage set the wrong course in transport policy because they fought unilaterally for tunnels and roads.

Hopefully that's history.

Bavaria is well advised to vigorously pursue the expansion projects and to fight for the necessary money in Berlin.

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