What will change in mobility in Munich in the coming year. What are the plans of MVV and how the second main line will continue …
While the City of Death Still a long way off (see below), the car-free old town is getting closer. By 2025, the center should be free of motorized individual traffic. With that one goes ÖPNV-Offensive for which various applications have been submitted that could be implemented from 2021.
The town hall coalition has called for a massive expansion of the tram network. 15 million euros will be spent on feasibility studies for six new routes:
- 1) a direct tram connection from the main train station to the north of Munich to develop the Bayernkaserne and SEM Nord.
- 2) a tram from the Deutsches Museum to Ramersdorf-Neuperlach,
- 3) a southern bypass that connects both sides of the Isar between the forest cemetery and the Ostbahnhof,
- 4) a line from Kreillerstraße over Wasserburger Landstraße to Haar,
- 5) a tram to the Parkstadt Solln and
- 6) a line to develop the SEM Northeast area.
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The city is spending five million euros on city buses with electric drives for the old town. According to the SPD / Greens application, they should drive from the timetable change in 2022.
With 15 million euros Mobility stations to be further developed. According to the plans of the town hall coalition, car sharing, bike sharing and offers such as electric scooters or pedelecs are to be bundled there.
Five million euros will be spent on making Park & Ride offers more customer-friendly: Combined tickets for parking and public transport should be possible at the request of Red-Green.
The CSU, ÖDP, Free Voters and the Left are calling for a 365 Euro ticket. The MVG is already warning of a “bottomless pit”.
“Individual mobile # 2021”
Under the motto “individually mobile # 2021”, the FDP and the Bavarian Party are bundling their proposals for Transport policy next year. These include: a digital traffic control system that should enable route selection, selection of the fastest or most sustainable means of transport, travel time in real time and more.
In addition, the parliamentary group calls for tighter cycles – for example on the U4 and U6 towards Garching. The resident parking permit system, however, has had its day: parking spaces should be bookable digitally. Cell phone parking should also be possible for P&R parking lots.
If the FDP and the Bavarian Party have their way, a trial run for a night subway will be set up next year and initiatives for autonomous driving will be discussed. Because: “Here Munich is completely oversleeping the trend,” said the city council group.
Second main route: plans for 2021
It is progressing under the direction of Kai Kruschinski: While the outer shells of the new S-Bahn stations at the main train station and Marienhof are almost finished, the interim elevator at Laim station will start operating in spring.
Kai Kruschinski is in charge of the work on the second trunk line.
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In summer the arched bridge, over which the tracks of the Second trunk line towards the tunnel portal at the Donnersbergerbrücke, to be completed. At the Hauptbahnhof and on Marienhof, where new tunnel stations are being built for the second trunk line, the special civil engineering work will end shortly.
This is to be followed by well work for building water management by autumn, after which the earthworks will start below a cover. In the eastern section, construction of the new electronic signal box at the Ostbahnhof is to begin in autumn. Commissioning is planned for 2023.
At the main station and at Marienhof, where new tunnel stations for the second trunk line are being built, the special civil engineering work will end shortly.
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These are the MVV’s plans
2021 will be the Association room of the MVV larger – at least in theory: “In spring 2021, the study on the expansion of the MVV network will be completed and presented to the respective districts and cities,” the MVV announced on request. “The surveys to expand the network area will start in the summer.”
In addition, the MVV is working on one Pilot project for “on-demand traffic” in the southern district of Munich. The formal tendering process is to start at the beginning of 2021 after the approval of all committees in the district. In fact, one can use the technical and tariff fully integrated in the MVV probably from autumn 2022.
Another milestone that MVV wants to achieve in 2021 is the further development of the one that started in October E-tariff pilot projects. “There will be extensive innovations here for the second pilot year.” In addition, work will continue to improve and expand the MVV passenger information systems.
Despite all the innovations – the main goals remain the same for the time being: “To relieve the region of the overarching, rapidly increasing mobility; to continue to drive forward the traffic and climate change despite the economic and financial crisis ”.
Pop-up bike paths are coming back
Currently the are temporary Bike pathsthat were built last year were dismantled. The project is evaluated. But they should return – maybe forever.
For Rosenheimer Straße, Elisenstraße, Theresienstraße (two sections) and Gabelsbergerstraße, renewed marking proposals similar to the temporary ones are to be proposed by April 2021 Pop up bike lanes be elaborated and implemented. Then it should be checked whether these can become permanent bike routes.
The city council has already decided on construction cycle paths for the sections Rosenheimer Straße between Lilienstraße and Am Lilienberg and Zweibrückenstraße between Erhardt- / Steinsdorfstraße and Rumford- / Thierschstraße. During the construction period, the cycle route around the Ludwigsbrücken will be adapted to the respective construction phases.
Pop-up bike paths are making a comeback – maybe forever.
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Strikes from April?
In November, unions and employers reached an agreement Tarifstreik – to an interim solution that will apply until April 2021. This means that there is a “peace obligation”, after which there could be strikes again in local public transport.
Because: Neither side is satisfied with the interim solution. Werner Albrecht, negotiator in Bavaria and HR manager SWM and BEST REGARDS:
“The employers have agreed to the procedure that has now been agreed in order to decouple the collective bargaining conflict from the current peak phase of the pandemic and to enable the timely payment of the tax-free Corona special bonus in 2020. However, the scope for negotiations in spring 2021 will not be greater. “
This is what passenger associations demand
Hello at Passenger Association Pro Bahn Munich checked what the most urgent concerns for 2021 are. Pro-Bahn spokesman Andreas Barth: “Express buses and their own lanes can immediately improve public transport. Even on construction sites, public transport must continue to drive instead of being slowed down. The anti-traffic jam package would also help. ”
The new tram routes would now have to be planned, approved and built at full speed so that the first ones open in 2025 and the most important ones built in 2035, if Munich wants to be climate neutral. “More parking spaces for buses and trams are needed – and all historic vehicles also need a roof over their heads and must be saved from being scrapped.”
Is the city toll coming?
Researchers from the Ifo Institute have calculated that one Anti-jam fee of six euros per day could reduce traffic within the Middle Ring by 23 percent.
The proposal meets with resistance and approval: The ADAC finds it socially unjust, for OB Dieter Reiter it would be City of Death only conceivable if public transport could compensate for car traffic, the Greens consider the idea to be good in principle. With so much potential for controversy: 2021 will probably not be the year of the city toll.
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