Darmstadt: Praise for the new tram route in the Ludwigshöhviertel

• ofJens Joachim

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Greens and CDU: Planned ring connection through the new district on the site of the former Cambrai-Fritsch barracks will relieve the Luisenplatz.

The decision of the Darmstadt magistrate to extend tram line 3 through the Ludwigshöhviertel to Heidelberger Straße has been described by the two coalition factions of the Greens and the CDU as a “decision in favor of the environment”. The planned extension of the tram route from the current terminus at the Lichtenbergschule and the double-track expansion of the turning loop in front of the Academy for Tonkunst, favored by the magistrate, enable “a new, very good ring connection” in local public transport. “This is new in Darmstadt,” said the group chairmen of the coalition, Nicole Frölich and Yücel Akdeniz for the Greens and Roland Desch and Alexander Schleith for the CDU.

With the planned construction of the tram connection through the future Ludwigshöhviertel, which is to begin in three years at the earliest, the Luisenplatz will also be relieved, according to the joint communication of the two coalition groups.

In the future, many schoolchildren could be taken directly from the Eberstadt district in the south of Darmstadt to the schools and the Academy for Music without having to drive through the city center.

The planned new construction of the Wendeschleife will serve to ensure that, in the event of traffic disruptions on Heidelberger Straße, the railways will be able to use the planned new Gleisdreieck at the confluence of Cooperstraße and Heidelberger Straße through Ludwigshöhviertel to turn around or to detour via Bessungen. With the preferred variant, the tree population can also be protected as much as possible. A turning loop on Heidelberger Straße, which is even more advantageous for operational reasons, would have had a significant impact on nature and the environment. “The loss of forest would have been more than three times as high,” says the message.

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