"Extremely disappointing": Mayor Reiter rages after the minister's cancellation at the crisis meeting on the 2nd main route
Created: 07/01/2022 05:08
By: Felix Herz
The construction of the second trunk line will be drastically more expensive and will take longer.
OB Reiter is frustrated.
© Matthias Balk/dpa
The cost and time explosion in the construction of the second trunk line will probably explode.
Now Wissing had a crisis meeting burst at short notice - Mayor Reiter raged.
Munich – The news caused a lot of fuss and will probably continue to cause a lot of trouble and discussion in the future: The construction of the second main line in Munich has been massively delayed – and the costs are exploding.
Actually, there should be a crisis meeting today, with Munich Mayor Dieter Reiter (SPD) and Federal Transport Minister Volker Wissing (FDP).
The latter probably canceled the appointment at short notice - in a press statement, Reiter now criticizes sharply.
Munich: Exploding costs and construction delays - Whether riders with clear words in the direction of the federal government
In a statement forwarded to the press, "on reporting on the increase in costs and the extended schedule for the construction of the second S-Bahn trunk line", Reiter vented his anger.
He finds the short-term cancellation of an appointment with Federal Minister of Transport Wissing “extremely disappointing”, and there is no prospect of a new appointment.
Another clear statement follows:
Especially now that there is an unbelievable further delay in the construction work and the associated further explosion in costs, it would have been urgently necessary to finally receive concrete first-hand information from the responsible federal minister.”
Munich's mayor rider in the direction of Wissing
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Reiter sees “unacceptable development”
The construction of the second trunk line in Munich is "Germany's largest infrastructure project," says Reiter.
If the delay and explosion in costs that have only been rumored so far should come true, it would be an unacceptable development for “Munich residents and the people in the region”.
Reiter hopes that the responsible project sponsors, the federal government, the Free State and Deutsche Bahn will do everything in their power to ensure that the construction does not become a second Berlin airport.
Its construction had been delayed by eight years and, at almost six billion euros, was three times as expensive as originally planned.
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Second main route urgently needed: S-Bahn system is reaching its limits
All of Munich's S-Bahn trains currently run through a single tunnel in the city center.
It is the busiest railway line in Europe.
If there is a disruption, everyone is affected by it – and disruptions, as the long-suffering people of Munich know, are common.
Mayor Reiter also knows this: The construction of the second main line is "urgently necessary".
Not only commuters, but "the further development of the entire region depends on the expansion of public transport".
Finally, in the statement to the press, Reiter demands: "For the planning of further, urgently needed infrastructure measures, such as subways and trams in Munich, we finally need reliable statements on financing by the federal government."
One can assume that if the delays reported so far and the extreme cost explosion come true, there will be a lot of discussion and arguments in the house.
The main question will probably be who will pay for the higher costs – which are inevitably associated with the general increase in the price of materials and delivery costs as a result of the Ukraine war.
(fhz)
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