Bypass Murnau: report should examine traffic flows and relief - the head of the town hall in a dilemma

Created: 01/14/2023, 10:25 am

By: Peter Reinbold

Bottleneck at Christ Church: By extending the bypass, traffic can be taken out of town.

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The State Building Authority will soon commission a traffic report on the Murnau bypass.

Mayor Rolf Beuting (ÖDP/Bürgerforum) is in a bind.

Murnau

- Not much has happened since March 2016 - especially not things that are visible to the citizen.

Almost seven years ago, the Federal Transport Minister at the time, Alexander Dobrindt, who is currently head of the CSU regional group in the Berlin Parliament, announced that the Murnau bypass is part of the Federal Transport Routes Plan 2030 and will be used there if there is an urgent need.

This implies that planning can begin immediately.

The State Building Authority in Weilheim took this order literally.

So far, unlike the large tunnel projects in the district of Garmisch-Partenkirchen - Kramer tunnel, Wank tunnel, Oberau bypass - which Dobrindt also initiated at the time, the excavators have not yet started.

And they won't do it anytime soon either.

"It may take a while, there is no timetable,

According to him, the tunnel construction study has now been completed - with a pleasing result.

It states that an underground route is "generally possible".

The gravel rock that was encountered during test drilling allows for this type of construction, which Hüntelmann describes as "complex".

And which may also be expensive.

In 2016, the Federal Ministry of Transport estimated almost 30 million euros for the approximately 1.7-kilometer route.

This money should no longer be enough.

Hüntelmann is also assuming this, after the construction prices have recently exploded.

“As things stand today, this cost estimate will not hold up.”

20,000 vehicles at the Resch crossing

Irrespective of this, the state building authority is pushing ahead with the planning after the traffic light parties, who wanted to put all road construction projects to the test, as provided for in the coalition agreement, are still sticking to the Murnau bypass.

"We haven't heard anything to the contrary from the Ministry of Transport," says Hüntelmann.

In the near future, the Weilheim authorities want to award the contract for a traffic engineering report to a specialist engineering office.

The experts are to examine the traffic flows – the Resch crossing, for example, is burdened by around 20,000 vehicles every day – the effects on nature and also the relief effect of a tangent.

The results are also decisive for the variant - several possibilities are already in the drawer - that will be built in the end.

"We have to check everything

so that we can find the best version,” explains Hüntelmann.

The aim is to keep land use and interventions in the landscape as low as possible.

According to Hüntelmann, the neighboring municipality of Seehausen, which is also affected by the relief road, is also involved in the planning in addition to Murnau.

In Murnau's local politics, the bypass is - depending on the camp - discussed controversially.

For the year 2023, the local council factions of the CSU and Free Voters have the bypass high on their agenda.

The Free Voters in particular are campaigning for this.

"We are still of the opinion that this project should have absolute priority," said parliamentary group spokeswoman Maria Schägger in a position paper.

More movement group leader Phillip Zoepf and the two group spokesmen for the CSU, Josef Bierling and Lorenz Brey, are also clearly in favor of the bypass.

Zoepf favors a west tangent.

He calls it "the last piece in the mosaic that completes the traffic relief in Murnau".

This would increase the quality of stay in the north of Murnau enormously, eliminating the traffic jams on Weilheimerstrasse and Reschstrasse.

Zoepf's conclusion: "It would be an enormous gain for Murnau." The two Christian Socialists made a similar statement, pointing out that the CSU faction "has had a clear opinion on the subject of the relief road for many years".

Joining forces with Seehausen "should send out a clear signal that we want this road and also urgently need it in order to push for its implementation as soon as possible," says Bierling.

Beuting has a referendum in mind

Mayor Rolf Beuting (ÖDP/Citizens' Forum) is in a bind.

In 2016, after Dobrindt announced the news for the district and Murnau, he sounded almost euphoric.

The bypass has "top priority for local development," he was quoted as saying.

He hopes for “a significant relief” in the north of Murnau.

Over the years he has made a small turn.

Apparently, the tension between community and party interests forced him to look at things in a more differentiated way.

As ÖDP district chairman, he is the skeptic, as mayor the reconciler.

"The issue must not be divisive for the local community," he says.

He is open to discussions and does not fundamentally reject the project.

In the opinion of the eco-democrat, a mandatory prerequisite for the construction of a bypass road is that a massive relief effect for the town center or the Murnau market can be proven to occur, without other parts of the town being burdened disproportionately more.

"We want a coherent overall concept," summarizes Beuting.

Only when plans and figures are available can “one form an opinion”.

And the citizens should be taken along – and ultimately decide.

He has a referendum in mind at the end of the process.

The CSU had been disturbed by Beuting's course in the past.

"We want a coherent overall concept," summarizes Beuting.

Only when plans and figures are available can “one form an opinion”.

And the citizens should be taken along – and ultimately decide.

He has a referendum in mind at the end of the process.

The CSU had been disturbed by Beuting's course in the past.

"We want a coherent overall concept," summarizes Beuting.

Only when plans and figures are available can “one form an opinion”.

And the citizens should be taken along – and ultimately decide.

He has a referendum in mind at the end of the process.

The CSU had been disturbed by Beuting's course in the past.

The rejection of Bündnis 90/Die Grünen, on the other hand, is all-encompassing.

“Investing millions of taxpayers' money in an outdated bypass with irresponsible sealing of valuable soil is still out of the question for us,” says Veronika Jones-Gilch.

The parliamentary group spokeswoman makes it clear that 23.5 percent of the traffic in Murnau is home-made.

Their demand: “The funds for the nonsensical bypass road project should be immediately and fully invested in the inner-city infrastructure of cycle paths and alternative mobility options.”

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