Commentary: Top priority traffic – Ebersberg

The country is far, the tsar is far away, says a supposedly Russian saying that is often quoted in this country. It is often about the relationship between the periphery and the center, which is why the saying goes well with the current appeal from the B304 residents to the prime minister.

This is not so much due to a physical distance between the surrounding area and the state capital or the state government residing there, but to a distance in terms of content. Since the post-war period, the Bavarian tsars had devoted themselves intensively to the promotion of the metropolitan area of ​​Munich – undoubtedly a success story. The consequences of the inflation of the state capital were not and still are not so intensely in view. For example, the housing shortage or the resulting displacement, which in turn leads to more commuter traffic. And that’s where the big country comes into play: Many of the people who keep Munich’s economic engine running live there – and they also drive through it.

The consequences of this cannot be overlooked, overheard or sniffed out at least twice a day, depending on how close you live to the congested traffic routes. A particularly congested one is the B304, which, in addition to commuter traffic, is also an important connection between several long-distance routes that are important for the transport of goods. Which, by the way, will no longer only be a problem for the residents living on the feeder roads, but in the foreseeable future also for the metropolis itself. If it can no longer be reached in a reasonable amount of time, it will be unpleasant for the local economy. However, the distant tsars of the past few years and decades have not paid much attention to how relief can be achieved there. The last really big infrastructure project for the region was the construction of the S-Bahn, and that was exactly half a century ago this year.

In the coming years, a project of the same size as the one dared to do in 1972, perhaps even a little more, would be needed for the greater area. What is missing is a really cross-regional transport concept that effectively connects the vast surrounding area to the metropolis without getting bogged down in the resulting traffic. And where else should such a thing at least be initiated than in the State Chancellery? Transport policy in the region must finally become a top priority.

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