In the district of Ebersberg there is a section of a district road that probably causes headaches for the members of the environmental committee (ULV) as well as the administration – and has been for years. “That is not worthy of all pig and a district road,” put it, for example, District Councilor Thomas Lechner (Bavarian Party). This is the district road EBE 09 between the Frauenneuhartingen districts of Schaurach and Jakobneuharting – of all the district roads, this section is in the worst condition. A long-term solution is still not in sight, as became clear at the meeting of the district environmental committee (ULV).
There have actually been plans for an expansion in the district for a long time. The rest of the road between Haging and Jakobneuharting was expanded a good nine years ago. For the last bit, however, the project has so far failed due to the necessary land acquisition. And it probably continues to do so: One of the current property owners is requesting an exchange property, which the district does not own in the required form.
The subject seemed to be a real crux: “I don’t have a solution that is really clear today,” said Johannes Dirscherl, head of waste management and district roads. He presented the committee in greater detail with three options for dealing with the section of road. Option one would mean an expansion based on the existing building. This would be accompanied by a widening of the street, which is only 5.5 meters wide in places, to at least 6.5 meters. With the current width, there is actually no road safety, said Dirscherl. The estimated cost of this option would be around EUR 2.3 million.
Variant two provides for an expansion within the existing building. However, this would mean that a road that was actually too narrow and therefore unsafe for traffic would be pegged for a long time, and the curve radii would also not meet the requirements, as Dirscherl emphasized. With costs of around two million euros, the district would still have to spend a lot of money.
In option three, the street in the affected area would be rehabilitated. But there are several problems: The lower part of the street layer is “indefinable”, says Dirscherl. The superstructure is in such a bad condition that it would make a core renovation necessary – the renovation of the surface and base layers is no longer sufficient. At one million euros, that would be the cheapest option, but only initially. Because in the long run the road could at some point reach an unacceptable condition, which would result in questions of liability. Constant patchwork would drive up the initially comparatively low costs in the long term – and make this variant uneconomical in the end.
The group of the Greens was in favor of a variant without road widening. Waltraud Gruber said the street had “no national significance”. Martin Lechner (CSU) contradicted this. “Look what traffic is coming from Grafing in the morning!” Spending one million euros on this underground is “actually a waste of money”. According to Dirscherl, a traffic count as early as 2015 showed 4,331 vehicles on the said district road within 24 hours. “That’s a house number,” judged District Administrator Robert Niedergesäß (CSU). According to Dirscherl, the Bavaria-wide average on a district road is around 2000 vehicles per 24 hours.
With the votes against by the Greens parliamentary group, the committee members decided to speak to the property owners again in order to tackle an expansion that is oriented towards the existing situation and thus widening the road. “Either we can fix it or we have to mess around,” concluded the district administrator.