As of: March 27, 2024, 10:06 a.m
By: Michael Acker
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The Filzenexpress on the way towards Ebersberg.
The line should be electrified by 2026, but this will probably be delayed.
© Rossmann
With the S-Bahn to Wasserburg: The Filzenexpress should actually be electrified by 2026.
But nothing will come of it.
The CSU state parliament member Thomas Huber does not want to accept this.
Ebersberg
- Many commuters had longed for the year 2026.
By then, the railway wanted to have electrified the approximately 19 kilometer long Filzenexpress route from Ebersberg to Wasserburg.
The construction of an overhead line should be completed by the end of 2025.
But nothing will come of it.
Two breeding pairs of lapwings are slowing down the project.
The railway is having problems obtaining the necessary compensation areas.
The willingness of farmers to hand over land that can then only be cultivated to a limited extent is low.
Huber (CSU) is losing his patience
Grafinger CSU state parliament member Thomas Huber's patience is breaking.
He calls for compensatory measures to be fundamentally suspended if the projects benefit climate or environmental protection.
Thomas Huber (CSU) calls for a rethinking of compensation areas © Stefan Roßmann
“It cannot be the case that a measure such as the electrification of a railway line, which does not require any land use and contributes to climate protection, fails because no compensation area can be found for two lapwing breeding pairs.
We are shooting ourselves in the foot with this,” said Huber on Wednesday, March 27th.
Thomas Huber (CSU): “That has no bearing on anything”
With electrification, the old diesel locomotives can be scrapped and replaced with clean and barrier-free trains, says Huber.
Parents with strollers or people with walking difficulties could travel barrier-free “and something would also be done for the climate.”
All of this is being torpedoed by the disproportionate requirement that “we absolutely have to find a compensatory area for two pairs of lapwings - especially here in the densely populated Munich area.
In my opinion, that is completely out of proportion,” criticizes Huber.
The member of the state parliament is calling on the federal government to make the scope of compensatory measures dependent on the ecological balance of the respective projects.
In principle, no compensatory measures should be necessary for projects such as the electrification of railway lines, which on the one hand save CO2 and on the other hand do not use any land.
Huber sees incentives for climate-friendly regional development
In Huber's opinion, such a regulation would also provide positive incentives for climate-friendly regional development.
“Especially here in Munich's suburbs, where the scope for compensatory measures is limited, it would be a sensible reform if construction measures were for a better ecological balance - regardless of whether they are to create necessary and affordable living space, wind turbines, open-space PV systems or infrastructure – fewer compensatory measures are necessary,” he explains and adds: “In this way, we prevent blockages like the Filzen Express and at the same time reward construction projects that are implemented in a particularly sustainable and climate-friendly manner.”
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As a spokeswoman for the railway told our newspaper in June 2022, lapwing occurrences in the Staudhamer Feld near Wasserburg/Reitmehring made the project more difficult.
For the birds, 4.5 hectares of compensation area would be required, which must be within 20 kilometers of Staudhamer Feld, including in the Ebersberg district.
The lapwing is a “complicated customer” because it is a “compensatory area eater” with a requirement of 1.5 hectares per breeding pair.
It needs a water and meadow area at least for the breeding season.
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