Alpenbus: Waiting for start-up help from the country
Created: 01/14/2023, 12:00 p.m
By: Sebastian Tauchnitz, Veronika Ahn-Tauchnitz
The Alpenbus project is still being worked on.
However, there is still a risk of failure due to the resistance of the city of Rosenheim.
Westkreis still disconnected © DB/ARCHIV
The topic of the Alpenbus, which as a fast east-west connection in the Oberland was supposed to link the public transport of the individual districts, has disappeared a little from public awareness.
What is the current standing?
District
– Actually, everything was clear: The Alpenbus, which is to run from Murnau to Rosenheim and makes a detour via Habach, the train station in Penzberg and the Roche site on weekdays, should become the heart of the national public transport planning of the district of Weilheim- become Schongau.
In the future, as many bus connections as possible are to be set up from the individual towns in the district to Penzberg, so that those who want to go to the neighboring districts of Bad Tölz, Wolfratshausen or Miesbach can change to the Alpenbus there in order to get to their destination quickly every hour.
At the end of 2021 everything was clear.
The district council agreed – albeit reluctantly – to the participation.
The resentment resulted from the fact that CSU Prime Minister Markus Söder had promised the introduction of the Alpine bus in the last state election campaign, but the government then refused to cover the costs in full, but would also like to collect the neighboring districts.
Rosenheim has been slowing down the Alpenbus for over a year
Still, everything looked good for a short time.
After long and tough negotiations, the route between Rosenheim and Murnau was fixed.
The costs that each district had to bear were also calculated.
Then a year ago the city of Rosenheim gave up because they didn't want to pay their own share of 50,000 euros.
As a result, the planned route no longer worked at all.
Since then it has become very quiet around the project.
At the district office in Weilheim, when asked, the colleagues from Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen, who are responsible for planning the Alpenbus, are referred to.
The aim of introducing the Alpenbus is still being pursued there.
The statement from Rosenheim that they did not want to participate at all has now "softened a bit," says Tölz district administrator Josef Niedermaier.
Now there is talk of “capping the annual issue.
But then the other districts would have to pay for a deficit that rose in Rosenheim.
Nobody does that.”
Free State examines alternatives without Rosenheim participation
The other suggestion is that the Free State could pay more, "but then the other districts want that too," says Niedermaier.
Of course, they continue to try to get Rosenheim to give in.
But there is also an examination as to whether the Free State would pay for the Alpenbus if Rosenheim is not the final stop.
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Markus Büchler, member of the state parliament for the Greens, made a request to the state government in December.
The Free State rules out a higher subsidy for the city of Rosenheim because it would be unequal treatment.
But the last two sentences in the state government's response are particularly interesting: "Should the city of Rosenheim finally decide against participating in the Alpenbus, a suitable alternative end point with a rail connection in the districts of Miesbach or Rosenheim could be examined and, if necessary, planned.
This would not stand in the way of the funding offered by the Free State.” The project could therefore also be implemented without the city of Rosenheim.
"We're doing everything we can to get the Alpenbus," says Niedermaier.
The earliest date would be 2025.
Westkreis still disconnected
So far there has been no talk of extending the Alpenbus line westwards to Schongau if the people of Rosenheim don't want to take part.
This does not change anything from the status of 2021, according to which the western part of the district would have almost nothing from the Alpenbus project.
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