The second main S-Bahn route in Munich will be significantly more expensive and will be completed years later. According to information from Süddeutsche Zeitung the costs will rise from 3.8 billion to five billion euros and the first trains will not run in 2028 but only in 2033.
It is completely unclear what effects the delay and the additional costs will have on other infrastructure projects – such as Munich Central Station. The Bavarian Transport Minister Christian Bernreiter (CSU) will comment on the new developments in a press conference at 10.30 a.m. A crisis meeting with Federal Transport Minister Volker Wissing (FDP) was originally planned for this Thursday. He canceled his participation on Wednesday evening without giving reasons and did not offer an alternative date.
All Munich S-Bahn trains currently have to pass under the city center in a tunnel on the main route opened in 1972 for the Olympic Games. In order to remove this bottleneck, a second trunk line is being built over a distance of around ten kilometres. In October 2016, the federal and state governments agreed on joint financing. According to this, the federal government bears 60 percent of the eligible construction costs. It was based on the total costs of 3.85 billion euros calculated by Deutsche Bahn at the time.