The city will get a new train station – if the cost explosion on the second trunk line doesn’t thwart the plans: Deutsche Bahn wants to submit a planning approval for the Poccistrasse regional train stop on the Südring by the end of the year, with the aim of building the station by 2029. In addition to the main entrance on Lindwurmstraße, the city is contributing a second entrance from Ruppertstraße. It is expected to spend three million euros plus planning costs of 220,000 euros, which the city council has already approved from funds from the local mobility allowance.
Trains running between Rosenheim, Mühldorf, Wasserburg and the main train station are to stop at Poccistraße, where passenger trains stopped at the then Südbahnhof station until 1985. Around 7,700 passengers per day could use it – but according to a ten-year-old estimate that has to be corrected upwards, especially with the expected 3,500 passengers from the surrounding area. In the meantime, the Volkstheater has opened on the neighboring Viehhof site, and 400 apartments are also to be built there. There could be even more on the wholesale market site.
Upgrading for the S-Bahn and connection to a new subway junction to the south on Implerstrasse are still possible options, not planned for the time being, should the U 9 be built. The new station uses a platform relic in the north of the marshalling yard, but the new platform is wider. The main entrance on Lindwurmstraße runs barrier-free for about 150 meters in a four-meter-wide and four-meter-deep trough between the district administration department (KVR) and the tracks.
The city is contributing a second access from Sendling
The second access point on the north-east side is intended to provide better access to the stop from Isarvorstadt and from Sendling. It uses the gap between the KVR and the new complex of the “Luise” cultural center and the vocational school for child care, where a footpath used as a fire service access road to the south begins. There would be room for bicycle parking here. Two bus lines also stop nearby.
According to the city council proposal, DB Netz describes its cost estimate of three million euros as “generous”, so it could also “be corrected downwards in the course of planning”. On the other hand, the city council rejected the alternative of accessing the platform from the large underpass on Tumblingerstraße as an apparent bargain with hidden pitfalls. The Sendlingers would have it 250 meters shorter here, and the solution also appears cheap at at least 0.4 million euros. However, the railway bridge over Tumblingerstraße urgently needs to be renovated. A concept for this already exists and would have to be completely redesigned in terms of statics and fire protection, with an uncertain outcome in terms of costs and feasibility. Since there is not enough space for a bike and ride facility here, the Tumblinger underpass would probably quickly be blocked by bicycles.
The Sendling and Ludwigsvorstadt-Isarvorstadt district committees agree, but the latter proposes improvements for the upcoming planning: Ideally, the railway should move the entire stop by one track to the south. At the KVR, a strip would remain free for the heart project of a cycle path along the tracks with a crossing of the Isar at the Braunau railway bridge. Alternatively, the local politicians, at the suggestion of their member Paul Bickelbacher (Greens), who is also involved as a city councillor, are calling for the trough of the main entrance to be greened and shortened. At the south-east end, where a tunnel begins across the tracks, there would be space for a staircase that would soften the unfriendly impression for pedestrians and at the same time create a practical third entrance for employees and visitors of the KVR.