As of: February 22, 2024, 7:00 a.m
By: Peter Schiebel
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“The tunnel belongs to the cat”: Dr.
Günter Steck and other tunnel opponents on Tuesday at See station.
Former mayor Eva Pfister was among the 15 participants.
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The rejection of the tunnel remains, but the citizens' initiative Pro Bypass - Against Official Tunnel and its political arm, the WPS, are no longer fully committed to building a bypass away from the town.
Instead, they favor a “new B 2” on existing roads past Starnberg.
This became clear at an appointment on Tuesday.
Starnberg – Dr. wanted it to be that simple.
Günter Steck doesn't let this date pass.
On February 20, 2017, the Starnberg city council passed its historic double resolution “Build a tunnel, plan a bypass”.
On February 20, 2024, exactly seven years later, Steck and Dr.
Claudia and Dr.
Helmut Hebeisen, Willi Illguth and Paul Puppe went to the display cases at the bistro at See train station - firstly to make clear the rejection of the tunnel and secondly to show an existing alternative.
“The B 2 tunnel belongs to the cat,” said Steck after revealing several caricatures he had made on the subject, and continued: “Because there is a new B 2 and it already exists.”
Steck meant the connection from the Maxhof roundabout via the Maisinger Gorge to the Starnberg western bypass, which opened in 2018, and then on to the Oberbrunn/Unterbrunn bypass to the A 96 junction at Gilching.
“Instead of a killer tunnel, it would be better to have a new B 2 as a tunnel killer,” emphasized Steck, pointing out that this was the idea of the citizens’ initiative Pro Bypass – Against Official Tunnel (BI).
Its chairman Dr.
Klaus Huber, a member of the Starnberg city council for the WPS until 2020, told the Starnberger Merkur that this route is the fastest way for drivers to the west of Munich with a connection to the A 99 and the federal highway network.
If the current state highways become a federal highway, the B 2 through the middle of Starnberg will no longer be needed.
City councilor Breitenfeldt: “We already have a very efficient bypass”
When asked whether the BI was moving away from its goal of a remote bypass north of Starnberg, Huber spoke of “sparrow in hand”.
The BI is still pursuing the goal of a bypass, but does not want to waste ten years when a “new B 2” might be feasible within two or three years.
“The goal is and remains to take the B 2 out of Starnberg,” he emphasized and also referred to a BI general meeting last fall.
Journalists were not invited to it.
“Times are changing,” said Ralf Breitenfeldt, chairman of the WPS, in an interview with Starnberger Merkur.
“We already have a very efficient bypass,” explained the city council, referring to the western bypass.
This was evident not least during the B2 closure last summer during the bridge work.
“Before we build a new road, it must be very clear that the road is worth it.” But there were no figures for this.
And he cannot criticize Federal Transport Minister Volker Wissing for building new roads, but at the same time insist on exactly this in Starnberg.
In order to make the route west past Starnberg more attractive, Breitenfeldt can imagine traffic control measures through traffic lights.
“Maybe we should move away from the green wave in the city,” he said.
However, the WPS is not currently planning any initiatives in this regard in the city council.
“You can’t rush forward with an application on a matter like this,” he said.
Discussions, including with other factions, were already underway.
“I hope that our arguments are convincing,” said Breitenfeldt.
Meanwhile, Klaus Huber explained that the BI had already written to the Federal Ministry of Transport about the “B 2 new”.
However, nothing has changed in the rejection of the tunnel by either the BI or the WPS.
According to Breitenfeldt, the tunnel was thought to have advantages that did not exist.
The project does not relieve pressure on either Starnberg, Weilheim or Munich.
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