District office slows down functioning bus transfer: Pupils from Marzling experience an odyssey to school

Created: 09/23/2022, 19:00

Just get on the bus and drive to school: It's not that easy for children from Marzling - quite the opposite.

(symbol photo) © Photographer: Andrea Jaksch

Children from Marzling need at least 40 minutes to get to school in Lerchenfeld.

It could go much faster.

But the district office is opposed.

Marzling

– Mayor Martin Ernst (CSU/FW) first had to “take a deep breath”.

Then he brought up a topic with great potential for excitement at the Marzlingen municipal council meeting on Thursday.

The reason for the deep wheezing: Once again, Marzlingen children only arrive at the Gute Änger secondary school after a long odyssey on the way to school – if at all.

The mayor, like the council, cannot understand why a well-functioning bus timetable has now been overturned by the district office.

What is it about?

Children from Hangenham or Rudlfing, for example, cannot use a bus line that takes them directly to the Gute Änger secondary school in Lerchenfeld.

Therefore they have to take the bus to the Marzling train station, take the train to Freising and then take another bus to school.

If a bus would take around ten minutes for this route, the kids have to calculate over 40 minutes for this cumbersome journey.

In just one school week, the train has already been canceled twice

Another main problem, which municipal councilor Michael Schwaiger (PB), who has been dealing with the subject meticulously for years, noted: "School has been going for a week - and the train has already failed twice." wait for the next train and is far too late, if at all, for class.

Michael Schwaiger: feels "completely fooled" by the district office and district administrator.

© Municipality of Marzling

Because the topic is a long-running issue, the municipality has repeatedly looked for solutions and found one, namely the extension of line 633 by the two stops: Hangenham and Rudlfing.

The community paid for it out of their own pocket, but the district office has now forbidden them to do so because the school can be reached, albeit via detours.

"We've been dealing with the topic for four or five years now," says Martin Ernst in retrospect.

"In the meantime we were on the right track, but that's probably a sentence with X."

Mayor: "I'm at my wit's end now"

"We have timetables in the drawers, but we're just being fobbed off and nothing happens," Schwaiger said angrily.

The only thing the district office would say was "Don't worry", which is why he now feels "completely screwed" by the authorities and district administrator.

The district office did not work "solution-oriented" at all and would stick to a plan that simply does not work.

Martin Ernst was also clearly bewildered by the decision from above when he listed with whom everything had already been discussed in this case, including the former district administrator Josef Hauner and the member of the Bundestag Erich Irlstorfer - all without any notable success.

"I'm at the end of my wits now and I wouldn't be surprised if there were tons of complaints from parents," says Schwaiger, who also finds it absurd that parents' taxis are to be curbed, but that such bus and train lines are particularly encouraging.

District office reports that talks are ongoing

“They should all think about why they went into politics.

It's me to find solutions," emphasized Schwaiger.

His dream solution is very simple: take a line that runs straight from Marzling to Lerchenfeld.

(By the way: everything from the region is now also available in our regular Freising newsletter.)

Last Thursday, the mayor once again received an email from the district office, which said that various discussions were being held to find a solution.

"I still hope they come up with something," concluded Schwaiger.

But he can no longer really believe in it.