At the beginning of December, Deutsche Bahn presented how it imagines the future of freight transport in the southern district. In order to handle the additional train traffic expected after the completion of the Brenner Base Tunnel, two new tracks are to be built between Grafing-Bahnhof and Ostermünchen. Four possible routes are already in the rough planning for this. The plans do not necessarily meet with approval from the neighboring communities, the district and the possible neighbors of the new route.
It has not yet been decided exactly where the railway will build, but the four coarse lines are all to the west of the existing line from Grafing-Bahnhof via Aßling towards Rosenheim. In the communities affected, they would have liked the railway to lay the additional tracks along the existing route. Instead, the planned routes partly run far through the currently largely undeveloped landscape or directly past, and partly through, localities.
The railway argues that it has received certain conditions from the Federal Ministry of Transport. The new route must not be too steep or too tight bends. Because theoretically, trains should be traveling there at more than 200 kilometers per hour. However, this is not possible along the existing route, according to the Deutsche Bahn planners.
The residents concerned consider these requirements to be pointless anyway: After all, the trains would first have to turn sharply southwards on the new route in front of or behind Grafing station, so that maximum speeds are hardly possible here. Second, according to the railways, mainly goods traffic should be on the route, for which there is also no need for a high-speed road. In addition, some doubt that another route is needed at all, instead the rail traffic that does not start or end in Munich should be led around the city.
Shortly after the first announcement of the plans for the new construction routes, there was a first demonstration in the neighboring communities, which was followed by around 250 people. Two weeks later, another demo takes place, to which, among other things, the city of Grafing has called and in which numerous politicians from the Ebersberg district take part.