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The city of Starnberg uses the termination option in the agreements with Deutsche Bahn.
The planned renovation of the See train station is therefore on hold for now.
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Starnberg made use of a termination option for the See train station connection and withdrew from the agreement with the DB.
Starnberg - The city of Starnberg has made use of its termination option regarding the connection to the See train station: In a closed meeting, the city council decided to withdraw from the provisional agreement reached with Deutsche Bahn.
It was aimed at financial commitments from the federal and state governments and the structural redesign of the train station.
177 million euro Lake Station project: Starnberg takes advantage of termination option
With the cancellation of the cancellation option from December 2022, there will be renewed negotiations between the city of Starnberg and DB regarding the rail contracts.
These could oblige the city to convert the sea station at their own expense.
The figure here is a sum of up to 177 million euros plus price increases of 3.75 percent annually until 2030, so possibly a further 50 million euros.
However, both negotiating partners had already signaled at the end of 2022 that they wanted to resolve the dispute over the old railway contracts by consensus if at all possible and not to take the legal action that the railway had formally announced against the city years ago.
Mayor Patrick Janik officially announced the city council's decision at the citizens' meeting on Wednesday: As the city's negotiator, he had not succeeded in obtaining the necessary financial commitments from the federal and state governments for a lake connection project by the end of the deadline for a termination option.
There are certain positive signals, says Janik, but “we are not the very first priority” when it comes to commitments from higher political levels of such magnitude.
Starnberg's mayor had initially considered getting an extension of the deadline until the end of May 2024 in order to achieve the commitment goals, but after a realistic assessment he was convinced that the notary costs for rewriting the agreement with the DB would be worth it should save better: “We had to expect this course of events,” Janik told the district messenger.
The 177 million euro “plus
This scenario is now obsolete, even if Mayor Janik “still has the confidence” that “we can find a solution,” as he told the district messenger - to date, no one has been able to give him an alternative.
The agreement between the city of Starnberg and Deutsche Bahn provided for these renovation work at See station
The agreement with Deutsche Bahn, which has now been terminated by the city, would have included the following (assuming the appropriate financing): 1. Relocation of the regional train stop to the North train station, extension of the platform there towards the north due to the different boarding heights for S-Bahn and regional trains;
2. Complete redesign of See station, reduction of four tracks to three, construction of two outer platforms to replace the previous two inner platforms.
3. Due to the relocation of the regional train stop to the North train station and the elimination of a turning and siding track, this will be rebuilt approximately 1 kilometer south of the See train station in the direction of Tutzing;
4. Areas at See station that were previously used for rail operations will be freed up as a result of the renovation; an expanded “city promenade” will be created on the side of the station facing the lake, and building land will be built on the city side of See station in the area of Kaiser-Wilhelm-Straße/Ludwigstraße.
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No alternative to the major solution for converting the See train station in Starnberg?
With the announcement that the city has now chosen the termination option, Mayor Janik also took some steam out of the cauldron at the citizens' meeting: opponents of the connection to the See train station in Starnberg had prepared a list of questions on the topic, as in 2023, and Janik lacked transparency accused.
So the deputy chairman of the “Livable Starnberg” initiative, Bernward Nebgen, was only left with the very friendly question in the meeting to the head of the town hall, where did he get his optimism that the financing would work?
Janik had replied that he did not see a more cost-effective option for converting the See station "as it is" - in German: the city and DB simply have to agree on a "big solution", and if they cannot agree on who will pay for it , there will be a process after all.
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