Ebersberg train station: more space for bicycles – Ebersberg

The timetable for the conversion of the bike racks at the station in the district town is available. The number of parking spaces is to be increased by June and the old bicycle shelter to the east of the station building is to be replaced. The west of the station is also being expanded, there will then be a total of 308 bicycle racks, up from 211 so far.

A little more than three years ago, an investigation commissioned by the district showed that this number was not sufficient. At that time, the parking spaces and bicycle parking facilities at the train stations were checked for their occupancy. For the district town, there was a comparatively high number, on some working days there were more bicycles than parking spaces. Their number was last increased in Ebersberg ten years ago, when the 140 new parking spaces were created in the west of the station building.

The bicycle racks in the west of the Ebersberg train station are being expanded.

(Photo: Christian Endt)

As early as 2019, when the city council first considered expanding the bicycle parking spaces, the decision was in favor of double-decker systems. These duplex garages for bicycles have been around in Munich for a number of years. They are considered space-saving, which also makes them interesting for Ebersberg. Because the possibilities to build more bike racks near the train station are limited. As the planner responsible, Ottmar Krix, explained back then, the only option was to replace one or more of the parking spaces in the west and the shelter in the east.

There is extensive funding from the state and federal government for the new bike racks

Even if the city council voted in favor of the expansion at the time – not least because of the prospect of subsidies of up to 90 percent – nothing happened for a long time. At the beginning of last year, it was said that coordination with the railways and the government of Upper Bavaria had started again after the Corona break, and in the summer of 2021 the railways and the city seemed to have at least agreed on the rough outlines of the bicycle stand expansion.

Now, almost a year and a half later, Krix was able to announce a success to the members of the city council: the railways approved the plans submitted and the funding notifications from the government of Upper Bavaria and the federal government have now also arrived. What is not entirely unimportant for the city is that an earlier estimate had shown that the conversion of the bike racks would cost between 180,000 and a quarter of a million euros.

The plan now is to demolish the old shelter and build three double-decker facilities, each with 40 spaces, in its place. Because the railway also wants to build new rubbish houses on the site, up to three parking spaces will be eliminated, with the result that the disabled parking spaces will be relocated, they will be a little further south in the future and thus closer to the access to the platform. On the west side, one of the existing bicycle racks is to be replaced by one with two floors. This gives you 20 additional parking spaces. The dismantled system can be set up elsewhere in the city.

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