With just a few steps you can change from the bus to the S-Bahn in Dudenhofen. Not only commuters from Babenhausen will benefit from this, but in one year from the Miltenberg district too.
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The Dudenhofen S-Bahn station in Rodgau (Offenbach district) is increasingly becoming a transfer point for the region. Commuters from Lower Franconia will also benefit from this in the future.
Rodgau – The K 86 bus line will become the express bus line to the Miltenberg district next year. So far it ends at Babenhausen station. Since the start of the S-Bahn in 2003, Dudenhofen has been a popular access point to the rapid transit network. The place is easily accessible by car from Babenhausen and the surrounding area. One consequence: The parking lot at the train station was insufficient, so the city created 77 additional parking spaces behind the community center.
Switching from car to bus and train made easier
The bus line to Babenhausen is intended to encourage the switch from cars to local public transport. With success: The K 86 line, initially started as an experiment, went into regular operation after a trial period. The importance of bus traffic becomes visible on the station forecourt in Dudenhofen. Since the renovation two years ago, there has been a generous bus turning loop there. If you get off the bus, it only takes a few steps to get to the platform to Frankfurt.
The new express bus line is scheduled to start operating on August 30, 2021. The initiative for this came from the Miltenberg district, “because it is very important and very useful for us to have additional access to the Rhine-Main area,” as the district administrator Jens Marco Scherf (Greens) says. As part of the Frankfurt / Rhein-Main metropolitan region, the district with 45,000 jobs subject to social insurance has 22,000 outbound and 12,000 inbound commuters every day: “There’s a lot of movement.” The two most important traffic axes are congested: the Autobahn 3 and rail traffic Aschaffenburg.
Commuters from the communities on the left of the Main should benefit from the bus route to Dudenhofen. You can reach the S-Bahn directly past the traffic jam.
“We’ve been working on this idea since I’ve been the district administrator,” reports Scherf, who has been in office since 2014. The aim is to better map the commuter flows in local public transport: “The Offenbach district is a very good partner for us.” Good experiences with the bus connection between Weiskirchen and Aschaffenburg had spurred the planning.
Hourly between 5.30 a.m. and 9.30 p.m.
Four districts from Hesse and Bavaria are involved in the new bus route. The smallest section of the route is accounted for in the Offenbach district, says district press spokeswoman Ursula Luh: “The main changes are happening in Darmstadt-Dieburg.” Dadina, who organizes local transport there, puts the transport services out to tender: Monday to Friday, 18 journeys in each direction, and eight on Saturdays and Sundays. This also means an improvement for the section between Dudenhofen and Babenhausen. During the week the bus then runs every hour between 5.30 a.m. and 9.30 p.m.
The new line will run through Schaafheim and Großostheim, among other places. The end points are Dudenhofen and Kleinwallstadt: In Dudenhofen there is a connection to the S-Bahn and in Kleinwallstadt there are two bus lines from the Spessart.
The so-called “express bus” should cover the approximately 35 kilometers in 51 minutes. This corresponds to an average speed of 40 km / h – ten kilometers per hour faster than usual in overland traffic. Dadina wants to achieve this, among other things, by eliminating two stops in Babenhausen. From August 30, 2021, the K 86 will no longer travel to the east construction area; the stops there will in future be served by the city bus. (Ekkehard Wolf)
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