This transport project makes Aubing angry. The fact that a new district with at least 1,200 apartments for around 3,100 people is to be built west of Altaubing also has consequences for the neighbors. The new residents are to settle directly on a newly built north-south route between Aubinger Allee and Eichenauer Straße, which will in future connect Aubing with the new Freiham district – also known in the district as “Variant 6”.
More people, more traffic and with another project in addition to the new Freiham district, even more problems – that’s the mood in the district. “The people don’t want variant 6. Aubing must not be flooded with traffic. And it makes us angry that we haven’t been heard by the city administration so far.” The person who says this is responsible for traffic issues at the Aubing-Neuaubing citizens’ association. Andreas Schweinzer expresses what around a hundred guests think, who once again made the most recent meeting of the Aubinger District Committee (BA) an exciting event.
At least they are in agreement with their district representatives. The members of the Aubing-Lochhausen-Langwied district committee are also very critical of the new project. “This will lead to a traffic collapse in the long term, which will simply overwhelm the district,” believes Roland Jung from the Free Voters/ÖDP faction. “We’re drowning in traffic like a tsunami.” Thunderous applause in the hall. “An access road, okay, but not a road that would bring in additional traffic from outside. That is out of the question for us,” says Green Party spokeswoman Dagmar Mosch. The CSU adds that there is no infrastructure for such a project: “Without the subway, we can no longer build new apartments,” emphasizes committee leader Sebastian Kriesel (CSU). “And we need more local amenities, more schools, more recreational space, more medical care.”
City representatives came that evening to explain a draft resolution that is expected to be presented to the city council in February. The paper implies Freiham’s connection to Aubing, which is important from the authors’ point of view because it should enable “the two districts to grow together in both spatial and social terms”. In addition, a feasibility study showed “good relief effects for the Aubing town center”. Even if some roads are exposed to additional, but “justifiable” loads with this concept.
A traffic barrier has already been broken 40 times
“We’re not pulling any traffic in here,” emphasizes Robert Adam from the mobility department at the meeting. Freiham is being built “very boldly”, with residents’ garages and mobility houses and its own motorway connection to minimize through traffic. “But we still need this new route because otherwise people will drive via Pretzfelder or Wiesentfelser Straße.” What they are already doing today: A barrier in the extension of Pretzfelder Straße, which is actually supposed to prevent passage, has already been broken through 40 times.
“We have been discussing this connection since 2013 and we as a district committee vehemently opposed it back then,” says BA chairman Kriesel. In the meantime, his doubts had increased, “because as you can see, it doesn’t work.” Not even this ban on passage behind Pretzfelder Straße could be enforced. Due to the mobility planning for Freiham, Kriesel fears that the neighboring residential areas will be “crowded”. And this will continue with the additional quarter, the so-called potential area on Eichenauer Straße, as the city planners call the Noch-Acker between Altaubing, the northern border of Freiham and the A99 motorway ring.
“Aubinger Lohe and Moosschwaige are already completely overcrowded”
There are voices like those of the ÖDP in the city council who do not want to see the potential area developed at all because of its location in a fresh air corridor. Others, such as Aubing’s district committee and two CSU city councilors, are calling for the settlement to be built only after the Freiham landscape park has been fully realized – in order to offer the residents of the west of Munich, including the around 30,000 people who will move to Freiham, sufficient recreational space to be able to. “The Aubinger Lohe and the Moosschwaige are already completely overcrowded,” explains local politician Manfred Spannagl (CSU).
The answer from Maria Graf, the project manager for Freiham in the planning department: “In view of the need for affordable housing, ignoring areas that are available for subsidized housing is not our objective.” Everything else – climatic effects, noise emissions, school supplies, even the density of the development – will be examined during the process anyway.
Aubing’s local politicians have postponed their statement on the project until the November meeting. If the city council approves the proposal, the planning competition is scheduled for 2024.