When the timetable changes next Sunday, December 11th, the Munich Transport and Tariff Association (MVV) will be making some changes again. Contrary to what was initially announced by the Munich Transport Company (MVG), there will be no cuts in the subway, bus and tram. The city council prevented this with an additional injection of funds at the last minute. In fact, MVG can even afford to make minor improvements to what it offers, such as the school buses. There are also new offers for the S-Bahn and the regional bus lines.
bus
The city bus routes 143 and 162 should be faster thanks to new traffic lights from Sunday. Buses can request their green light at several systems via radio notification.
The express bus X30 gets an additional stop at Vollmannstraße. The same applies to lines 57 and 157, which now also stop at Annemarie-Renger-Straße in the Freiham development area. Lines 173, 180 and N76 stop at the new Helene-Mayer-Ring stop.
Line 188 runs an extra hour on weekday evenings. In future there will be four additional journeys in each direction between Unterföhring, Fichtenstraße and St. Emmeram. Line 189 will in future use a new route in Unterföhring via Beta-Strasse. The Unterföhring Beta-Straße, Unterföhring Heinrich-Hildebrand-Weg and Unterföhring ZDF-Straße stops will be served, the Unterföhring Dieselstraße and Unterföhring Medienallee stops will no longer be served and will be served by the 234 regional bus line in the future. Line 147 will be taken over by regional bus line 220, line number 147 will no longer be used. All changes, including in the counties, are under mvv-muenchen.de/fahrplanwechsel to find.
Subway
The new type C2 underground trains, whose fleet will increase to 85 vehicles by 2025, are now also approved for the U4 and U5 lines. This means that the modern articulated trains can be used across the entire subway network. Above all, passengers benefit from more space: the C2 offers almost ten percent more capacity than the vehicles in the older A and B series.
tram
Longer trams have recently been used on line 20. Two- and three-car trains from the Avenio series form a five-car unit with space for almost 260 passengers.
Train
The Munich S-Bahn offers around 160 additional trips a day. On almost all lines there is a continuous 20-minute cycle from Monday to Friday from 5 a.m. to 11 p.m. to the respective terminal stations. Only on individual sections in the outer areas of the S2 West, S4 West and S7 East trains cannot run every 20 minutes due to the infrastructure. But here, too, the bars are condensed as far as possible.
In addition to the denser cycles, the operation should also become more robust by increasing the turnaround time, i.e. the time spent at a terminal station. Because if there are delays in trains going out of town that cannot be compensated for at the terminus, the return journey will also start late. In order to minimize this effect, the S-Bahn is planning to include additional vehicles from the existing fleet on lines S 1 and S 7, thereby increasing turnaround times in Wolfratshausen to 30 minutes and at the airport to 25 minutes. There are similar improvements in the afternoons on the S 2 in Petershausen.
More expensive tickets
Bus and train travel is becoming significantly more expensive in and around Munich. On average, tickets cost 6.9 percent more, the highest price increase in almost 30 years. A single ticket (zone M/2 zones) will in future cost 3.70 euros, a strip ticket 16.30 euros. Monthly tickets (zone M/2 zones) cost 63.20 euros. Should the 49-euro Deutschlandticket come in February 2023, the transport companies in the MVV will inform their subscription customers. They can then decide whether a change is worthwhile for them or not.