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“This is exactly where the Munich Transrapid route should run”: photos trigger a new debate

2023-04-28T10:37:55.052Z


The idea of ​​a Munich Transrapid to the airport came up more than 20 years ago. She failed, and with quite a bit of fanfare. Would she today?


The idea of ​​a Munich Transrapid to the airport came up more than 20 years ago.

She failed, and with quite a bit of fanfare.

Would she today?

Munich – The Transrapid project electrified the masses in Bavaria like hardly any other topic in the 2000s.

The topic was in the news for around eight years, almost the entire decade.

Proponents and opponents threw arguments around, there were referendums, numerous feasibility studies and audits and the then Prime Minister Edmund Stoiber (CSU) delivered one of the first viral hits in Germany with his stuttering speech.

The topic is now boiling up again on Twitter.

User "MagnetBahn |

Transrapid & Co.” uploaded photos of the route planned at the time.

New debate on Twitter: Why did the Transrapid fail – and was that right?

After the idea of ​​a Transrapid connection between Munich Central Station and the airport came up, two opposing parties quickly developed: on the one hand the federal government (Schröder and Merkel) and the Bavarian state government (Stoiber), on the other Munich city politics and large parts of the population.

The Twitter account “MagnetBahn |

Transrapid & Co.” now recalled the advantages of a magnetic levitation train to Munich Airport that were advertised at the time, which would have reduced the journey time to around ten minutes.

This is exactly where the Munich Transrapid route should run.



It would have reduced the travel time between the airport and the main train station to just 10 minutes and connected the airport to DB long-distance traffic.



The journey by train still takes over 40 minutes today.

pic.twitter.com/XeKDvYImIb

— MagnetBahn |

Transrapid & Co. (@MagnetBahn) April 27, 2023

Today, air travelers still need about 40 minutes by S-Bahn.

Other photos that the user uploaded to Twitter also show writing on the bridge expressing rejection of the Transrapid.

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The idea of ​​a Transrapid between Munich and the airport met with widespread criticism from the public in the 2000s.

© ecomedia/robert fishman / IMAGO

Twitter users still at odds today – memories of the legendary Stoiber speech

But even if it still takes 40 minutes to get to the airport today, there is still disagreement on Twitter as to whether it was right to reject the Transrapid project at the time.

For example, a user writes: "It would be great if all cost risks were borne privately and not by the taxpayer." According to "MagnetBahn |

However, Transrapid & Co.” would have been taken over by the “system industry” – whereupon the first user refers to the Hamburg Elbphilharmonie and that there is a difference between “considerable parts and 100 percent”.

Other users prefer to take the post as an opportunity to remember the legendary Stoiber speech at the New Year's reception of the CSU city council group in Munich.

Stoiber, a big supporter of the project, argued for the advantages of a Transrapid at the time - but got bogged down several times, mixed up the words main station and airport and often stalled.

In public, phrases like "If you leave the main station", "in ten minutes" and "because that's obvious" became dictums.

The Munich Transrapid also failed because of the money – the idea lives on to this day

But it is also true that the project ultimately failed not only because of the opposition of the population and Munich city politics, but also because of economic efficiency.

If one initially assumed costs of 1.85 billion euros, the next estimate suddenly exploded to around three billion euros.

But the thought of a Transrapid around Munich lives on to this day.

Only a few years ago, feasibility studies were again carried out and presented.

However, there is still a long way to go before it can be realised, especially since the mega-project on the second main line has to be carried out first and the work on the main station has not yet been completed.

(fhz)

You can find more current news from Munich and the region at

tz.de/muenchen.

Source: merkur

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