Local council criticizes the draft of the new local transport plan and fears the loss of many journeys.
. One topic of the public local council meeting in Gündlingen was the draft of the local transport plan 2021 of the regional association regional transport Freiburg (ZRF). The mayor of the Breisach sub-communities and the alderman Carsten Müller had the state of affairs clarified in a conversation with the managing director of the Tuniberg-Express Merdingen company, Jürgen Karle. A jointly drafted statement on the unacceptable new plans will be presented to the municipal council for discussion next Tuesday.
The aim of the new local transport planning for five years is to adapt the regional bus routes to the transport concept of the Breisgau S-Bahn. It is already clear that this plan will bring major changes for users of local public transport.
A lot of changes
Gündlingen would no longer be served 53 times a day with the new line 550 (currently still line 31), but only 16 times between 6 a.m. and 8 a.m. and 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. every hour. According to this plan, the weekend trips were canceled. This means that local public transport only takes place on 170 days a year, said mayor Thomas Vierlinger.
The stop in the main street would be omitted and Rimsingen could in future only be reached via a change in Merdingen. Switching to the S-Bahn 1 in Gottenheim to Freiburg would also be problematic in the event of delays in rush hour.
After a conversation with managing director Jürgen Karle from Tuniberg-Express Merdingen, the three particularly affected sub-communities wrote a detailed statement with demands and suggestions for advice in the Breisach municipal council.
In it they demand a direct bus connection between the districts to Breisach and back at the current frequency, as well as a bus to Paduaallee Freiburg. This is the only way to counteract a “foreseeable problem caused by the emerging bus traffic junction to the S-Bahn in Gottenheim” in advance, they argue.
Two suggestions
In proposal number one, the new line 550 (formerly 31) from Breisach to Hochstetten and Gündlingen should take the small detour via Ober- and Niederrimsingen before continuing to Merdingen and Gottenheim. The final destination should not be Gottenheim, but Paduaallee in Freiburg. This should work on weekdays, on weekends and during vacation times with the previous clock.
In the second suggestion, instead of the Gottenheim endpoint, the 430 (Breisach-Bad Krozingen) bus line could be the Breisach endpoint. The bus would then drive from Bad Krozingen via the districts of Bad Krozingen and the districts of Breisach to Breisach – good for getting to doctors, for example.
Criticism from a bus company
Bus operator Jürgen Karle gave an overview of the history of the rail expansion in the region and its “non-functionality”. His displeasure with the planners goes back 15 years when they planned the rail expansion. The project of the railway line from Breisach via Freiburg to Donaueschingen had always been set as an overall line via the planning programs. Likewise, the “wings” in Gottenheim station to connect the Kaiserstuhlbahn Süd to Freiburg without having to change trains. The aim was to attract new passengers, generate new income and meet the funding criteria – but none of this has even come close to being implemented, Karle complained.
The opening in December started with an unsuitable timetable, not to mention the technically ultra-modern vehicles with teething problems. Then there is the 90-kilometer 95 percent single-track route with the known effects. It is too easy for Jürgen Karle to want to “blame” the S1 line operator for everything, because the regional association for local transport also bears responsibility as co-financier of at least 500 million euros in addition to the city and district budgets. So far there has been no criticism from this side, instead reference is made to the responsibility of the state and DB.
For Karle, the project is now damaging all local transport in the region; Not a week goes by without complaints about canceled trains or too few seats in the wagons.
It is impossible to imagine how this should work in times of highest demand, for example after the corona pandemic. Karle sees the use of additional buses, as is currently the plan, as a “declaration of bankruptcy”.
So it goes on
All local councils of the districts will give an official statement on Tuesday in a joint meeting with the Breisach municipal council from 6 p.m. onwards.
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