The station is being expanded – and is to be greener
Parliament approved several loans for a more modern train station.
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–This is what Münsingen train station looks like today. There should be some changes here in the future. (Archive image)
Photo: Urs Baumann
A new outside platform with direct access for CHF 4.5 million. A pedestrian and bicycle underpass including a bicycle station for 4.2 million. And an extension of the bus station for 1.3 million. The Münsingen municipal parliament clearly approved these loans with a total of 10 million francs on Tuesday evening. In the end, however, the municipality will have to pay a maximum of CHF 5.9 million, as contributions from the agglomeration program have been guaranteed.
The expansion of the station is well received by all parties and has been described as farsighted. “This is a generation project,” said local councilor Andreas Kägi (FDP). Because railways would be built for 40 years. Münsingen is taking a big step in the development of public transport.
However, the expansion comprises far more elements than the sub-projects approved by Parliament. However, these elements are the responsibility of the SBB and the federal government and will enable quarter-hourly intervals in the future. Several applications from the Greens were somewhat more controversial than the loans. You want a greener, more climate-friendly train station. This, for example, with greenery or photovoltaic systems on canopies of ramps or bicycle parking spaces.
In the original submission of the municipal council, this concern was not taken into account, which angered Andreas Wiesmann. “At first we were laughed at, then put off and now ignored.” Here, too, there is more or less agreement in the end. Parliament followed the requests.
The municipality will work with SBB to check whether these measures are technically feasible. “We can’t force the SBB to do it,” says Kägi and made it clear: “We won’t kill a project like this for a few blades of grass.”
Parliament did not want to deal with another transport project – the relocation of Industriestrasse. There are still many problems, said the SP, and it was successful with the motion not to enter the agenda.
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