"A mess": DB blocks "short-term" train route - students are again left behind

Created: 09/26/2022, 19:41

By: Christof Schnürer

It's not as quiet early in the morning at Mittenwald train station as it is in our photo.

© Josef Hornsteiner

As soon as the summer holidays are over, the trouble starts again – with the train.

This closed the Mittenwald-Garmisch-Partenkirchen route due to "short-term maintenance work".

Mittenwald

– The primary sufferers are the learner drivers and their parents.

According to them, hair-raising scenes have been going on at Mittenwald station for days – many children and young people, few transfer options.

"Now the whole crap is starting all over again," scolds Kathrin Fütterer.

"It annoys me so incredibly."

Railway line blocked in Mittenwald: Parents annoyed – "Now all the crap starts all over again"

The mom from Mittenwald is alluding to the rail replacement service, which out of the blue, like it was before the summer holidays, is now back in action.

"The DB immediately provided two large articulated buses, not least for school transport," said a spokeswoman for the railway.

In addition, there are several large taxis between Mittenwald and Garmisch-Partenkirchen.

"We are working flat out to get all passengers to their destinations reliably and apologize to all travelers for any inconvenience caused."

In fact, those affected cannot be dismissed out of hand.

What is the worst thing for most of them: "Nobody knows," complains Anton Fütterer senior.

200 students from the Isar valley are waiting early in the morning and there is no information from the DB.

"That's a mess," says "Spack'n-Toni".

On Wednesday he drove his grandson to Garmisch-Partenkirchen without further ado.

Otherwise, he would probably have waited until dawn for a bus.

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Another mother, Michaela Stelzl, also finds the situation "really blatant".

"We have now even formed carpools so that our children can get to school on time." According to her, there is "sometimes total chaos" at the station.

Far too many young people frolic at the bus stop every morning.

Once a bus is said to have even touched the school bag of a boy.

"So we called the police in Garmisch-Partenkirchen," reports Stelzl.

Her son is in sixth grade.

On Tuesday morning he went home again after not being able to get a seat on the bus or in a taxi.

Railway closed: Parents form carpools - the bus driver lets the students stand

What Anton Fütterer says is also hair-raising.

In the course of this horror week, a bus driver is said to have complimented his young customers at the Klais train station from his vehicle with the words "closing time".

Kathrin Fütterer knows of three children who then trotted home on foot along the state road to Mittenwald.

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"You can't just leave them as they are," Anton Fütterer is slowly starting to wonder about nothing anymore.

Confronted with this incident, the DB spokeswoman replies: "We take the reference to a trip that ended prematurely in Klais very seriously and are checking the facts internally." According to reports, this story is said to have had consequences under labor law for the bus driver concerned.

But that's only a limited consolation for the parents.

They just hope that the trains will be rolling again soon.

Michaela Stelzl only wishes one thing at the moment: "That everything has a happy ending."

You can find more current news from the district of Garmisch-Partenkirchen at Merkur.de/Garmisch-Partenkirchen.