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A8: Initiatives want to stop motorway expansion - Green MP invites to meeting

2023-06-07T05:11:13.630Z

Highlights: Green MP Karl Bär wants to find out who would stand up to the A8 against its planned expansion. The goal is to create a large, colourful, overarching alliance, if possible across five districts. Citizens were motivated in particular by the issue of traffic noise. The situation is probably most precarious at Bernauer Berg, because this construction phase is already in the planning process. The aim is to ask associations for positioning so that the will of the citizens would be presented. It was agreed that they wanted to have uniform information for the entire A8.


Green MP Karl Bär wants to find out who would stand up to the A8 against its planned expansion. The goal is a united alliance.


Green MP Karl Bär wants to find out who would stand up to the A8 against its planned expansion. The goal is a united alliance.

Irschenberg – Although there were only a dozen interested people who came to the Irschenberg sports parlour, they were known to be controversial spirits who have campaigned for their communities on transport policy issues or have already campaigned for citizens' initiatives on several occasions. As far as Siegsdorf (Traunstein district), for example, Green Party councillor Marlis Neuhierl-Huber from the citizens' initiative "A8 - Citizens set limits" accompanied by her board colleague Josef Fortner from Achenmühle-Rohrdorf had arrived. The only mayor in the group was Simon Hausstetter (Bürgerblock) from Rohrdorf (Rosenheim district). And from the district of Miesbach, SPD district councillor Christine Negele, Fred Langer from the Bund Naturschutz and several comrades-in-arms of the Irschenberg citizens' initiative led by Florian Kories took part.

They all had different information about the status of the expansion measures that Federal Transport Minister Volker Wissing (FDP) is planning for the A8, among other things, mainly concerning their municipality or district. One reported that 75 hectares of agricultural land in the municipality of Rohrdorf and 100 hectares in the municipality of Frasdorf would fall victim to the expansion of the A8. The other is the relocation of motorway exits, necessary but space-consuming straightening of curves, enormous excavations and noise barriers, which – if planned at all – would carry the noise further up the mountains rather than contain it. It was agreed that they wanted to have uniform information for the entire A8.

Negele wants to ask associations for positioning

Neuhierl-Huber also called for a uniform language regulation so that it was clear what was meant by the various expansion variants. When we talk about "three-lane expansion", we mean a total of six lanes plus two hard shoulders. In the case of the four-lane expansion, there are even eight lanes plus hard shoulders. In order to attract further comrades-in-arms, she also suggested a computer animation as an illustration. Citizens were motivated in particular by the issue of traffic noise.

However, it is important to have well-known local contacts, such as BN board member Langer in the matter of the Holzkirchen bypass. From experience, Bär also considered cooperation with farmers' associations to be possible. Negele offered to ask all the "usual suspicious" associations for a position on the issue before the district council meeting in June, so that the will of the citizens would be presented.

Bär to clarify questions in Berlin

In any case, the aim is to create a large, colourful, overarching alliance, if possible across five districts. Bär, who is also a Green Party member of parliament for the district of Rosenheim, was commissioned to clarify various legal and procedural issues in Berlin. At the beginning, he explained the connections and imponderables of the current political situation in the coalition committee with regard to transport policy, the financing of projects, the acceleration of planning and the Climate Protection Act.

It turned out that even though the expansion of the A40 has been discussed for over 8 years, this prioritization and planning acceleration now means that danger is imminent: "Once the excavators are there, it's too late," Neuhierl-Huber noted. The situation is probably most precarious at Bernauer Berg, because this construction phase for the expansion of the A8 is already in the planning process.

The obvious goal is to fall out of the prioritization again, for example because the corresponding reports are no longer up-to-date or as "coffee grounds reading without cross-calculations" (Langer). Bär was tasked with gathering up-to-date information about the planned measures at the federal motorway company and organizing a next meeting in about six months. But then with even more comrades-in-arms. Ak

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Source: merkur

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