Pasing’s new quarter on Paul-Gerhardt-Allee is growing and growing, half of the approximately 2,400 apartments on the 38-hectare site between the main route and the S2 route have now been occupied. However, the traffic connection of the new residential area is still not in a dry cloth. A decision paper, which is to be presented to the city council’s mobility committee at the beginning of June, could now change that. This includes the city’s commitment to signing the financing agreement for the construction of the Berduxstraße S-Bahn station.
“We absolutely need this new S-Bahn stop,” says Frieder Vogelsgesang (CSU). The head of the Pasinger district committee has been fighting with his committee for years to ensure that the district gets this additional stop on the S2 line. And as quickly as possible. The mobility department now estimates that the next steps, such as planning, obtaining planning permission and construction, could take another five to seven years.
“The Free State of Bavaria” is said to be striving to implement the Berduxstraße S-Bahn station “before the second trunk line goes into operation”. The construction is expected to cost 14 million euros, to be borne equally by the city and the state. Possibly more, for example because foreign land has to be acquired. In any case, Munich wants to pay its seven million entirely from parking space transfer funds.
A second point is also discussed in the paper: the construction of a car tunnel to Landsberger Straße. For a long time, such a building was considered an effective solution for effectively diverting the traffic caused by the approximately 6,000 new residents. But then studies calculated that the tunnel is not absolutely necessary, even if it would minimize possible impairment of the surrounding roads. The performance of the existing network is sufficient enough.
In view of the sum of 100 million euros that the construction of a tube would devour, the administration does not want to pursue the tunnel variant any further. Especially since, to increase the attractiveness of local public transport, a shuttle bus connection is to be set up every ten or even five minutes between Paul-Gerhardt-Allee and Pasinger Bahnhof, and three foot and cycle bridges are planned.
Local politicians are angry about the cancellation of a car tunnel
The bridge over Offenbachstraße north of the railway line is already under construction and is expected to be completed by the end of the year. A second cycle path overpass from Baumbachstraße over the tracks in the direction of Am Knie street, where tram 19 and, in the future, also the U5, will stop, still takes time. The same applies to bridge number three, which is intended to lead across the tracks to the Nymphenburg Palace Park near the Berduxstraße S-Bahn station.
However, Pasing’s district representatives, who were consulted on the proposed resolution, want to keep the option of a tunnel open for the time being. “If you suddenly realize that the traffic pressure is too high,” explains Vogelsgesang. Only when the new Berduxstrasse S-Bahn station has been built, says the district committee chairman, can you “bury the tunnel”.
Should the city council follow this demand by local politicians, it would also mean that the city would have to look for another location for an emergency power system that would secure the emergency power supply for the extension section of the U5 from Laim to Pasing. The mobility department proposes an area south of the railway line for this above-ground service building, which can only be used if the tunnel is not built. The emergency power system was originally intended to be on the site of the municipal tree nursery on Gotthardstrasse. But that is no longer possible: the urban development plan 2040 now envisages integrating the tree nursery area into the area of the “Pasing-Laim-Blumenau-Hadern” landscape park.