City-surrounding railway Nuremberg – Erlangen – Herzogenaurach

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The Stadt-Umland-Bahn Nürnberg – Erlangen – Herzogenaurach (StUB) is a light rail or Regiotram project that is currently being planned. It is to connect the Central Franconian cities of Nuremberg , Erlangen and Herzogenaurach with a new tram route to be built and connect to the existing Nuremberg tram network. The documents for the plan approval procedure should be prepared by 2021.

history

Ideas and plans

After Siemens tested an H-train on its company premises in Erlangen in the 1970s , the construction of such a train was discussed in the city. This was rejected by the city council in 1978.

After passenger traffic on the Erlangen – Eschenau railway line was discontinued in 1963 and the Erlangen-Bruck – Herzogenaurach railway line was discontinued in 1984, an extensive study by the then “Franken-Plan Working Group” was presented at the end of 1985 under the title A Stadtbahn für Erlangen . In the mid-1980s there were first considerations in the region for a light rail system .

Former railway line Erlangen-Bruck-Herzogenaurach

At the beginning of the 1990s, this was further developed into a concept for a regional light rail system , which is locally known as the city-surrounding railway or StUB for short . From 1992 onwards, Siemens Transportation Systems participated in the project both technically and financially. A feasibility study completed in 1994 shows a benefit-cost factor of 1.48 for the urban-suburban railway. In 1995 the city of Erlangen as well as the districts of Erlangen-Höchstadt and Forchheim decided to build and operate the StUB basic network on the basis of previous cost-benefit analyzes and feasibility studies.

Planned route and links between the StUB project and other public transport lines. The east branch shown here is not part of the currently planned network

In a feasibility study from 1993, the total costs for the StUB project were put at just under one billion Deutschmarks, of which around 413 million DM for the routes of the basic network alone. In 1997, the Bavarian Ministry of Economic Affairs refused to include the project in state and federal funding programs from. Without this co-financing , there was no prospect of the city-suburban railway being realized . Nevertheless, the topic regularly remained part of the public and political debate in Erlangen and the surrounding area. A citizens' initiative for environmentally friendly mobility in the Schwabach valley has repeatedly addressed the project, as have leading politicians from the districts involved. From the beginning of 2008, a new cost-benefit study was drawn up for the StUB basic network.

The transport association for the greater Nuremberg area , the VAG and the cities of Nuremberg and Erlangen founded a project group in 1999 for a more detailed study.

Since around 2010, mainly on the initiative of the cities of Herzogenaurach and Nuremberg, the plans for a city-surrounding railway have been pursued more intensively. A standardized assessment and comparison with a regionally optimized bus network (RoBus) was carried out by spring 2012 . The expansion of the infrastructure for the StUB referred to the so-called T-network with a north-south connection from Erlangen train station to Nürnberg-Wegfeld and from Erlangen train station with a branch to the west over the new Kosbacher bridge to Herzogenaurach and to East only to Uttenreuth . The latter would mean breaking the bus traffic between Erlangen and Eschenau, which is now free of transfers. With the regionally optimized bus network, additional bus lanes and stops as well as the new Kosbach bridge were assumed.

decisions

On September 21, 2012, the district council of the Erlangen-Höchstadt district passed the resolution with a clear majority to submit a funding application for the city-surrounding railway with the Nuremberg-Am Wegfeld-Erlangen-Herzogenaurach / Uttenreuth network. On September 27, 2012, this was also decided by the Erlangen city council. The cities of Nuremberg and Herzogenaurach had each made corresponding resolutions earlier. At the same time, the plans for the project should be concretized. After the decision on the funding, a final decision should be made as to whether the project will be implemented.

In September 2013, the StUB was included in the funding of the Municipal Transport Financing Act.

The cities of Erlangen and Nuremberg voted in December 2014 to join the association for the planning, construction and operation of the city-surrounding railway.

In the district of Erlangen-Höchstadt, however, there was resistance to the construction of the city-surrounding railway. The mayors of Höchstadt , Adelsdorf and Kalchreuth have been criticizing the plans since summer 2014 because they fear that their communities will be burdened by the district levy that is necessary for the financing . Together with their party colleague, the parliamentary group leader of the district assembly of the Free Voters Erlangen-Höchstadt , they threatened to initiate a district decision on the city-suburban railway, if no funding for road-flush railway bodies could be achieved. The SME Union also called for the citizens of Erlangen to make a referendum on the railway due to the high financial volume.

In Erlangen-Höchstadt this referendum was conducted on April 19, 2015. The district council request for the urban-suburban railway was rejected with 45.2% to 54.8%, the referendum was accepted with 59.2% and 40.8%. Thus, the district does not join the association and does not participate financially in the city-surrounding railway. As a result, the east branch ( shortened to Uttenreuth ) and the plans for an optional north-west branch have been abandoned until further notice.

The city of Herzogenaurach, whose citizens voted with over 75% for the city-surrounding railway, now pursued the plan to achieve a connection from Erlangen with its own cost sharing. The branch to Uttenreuth would be omitted. In order to initiate this, in mid-July 2015 the district committee of the Erlangen-Höchstadt district recommended that the district council hand over the relevant tasks for public transport financing to Herzogenaurach. Together with Nuremberg and Erlangen, it can found a special purpose association for the construction of the city-surrounding railway.

On March 6, 2016, a referendum took place in the city of Erlangen. The requested exit of the city from the project Stadt-Umland-Bahn was rejected with over 60 percent of the votes, with a turnout of around 45 percent.

On March 17, 2016, the Erlangen city council decided to found a special purpose association for the further planning of the city-surrounding railway together with the cities of Herzogenaurach and Nuremberg, which had already made this decision at an earlier point in time.

Current route planning (L network)

The current plans envisage a line coming from Nürnberg-Am Wegfeld (since December 11, 2016 the end point of the Nuremberg tram line 4) roughly along the federal highway 4 via Tennenlohe to the south of Erlangen and then via the Nürnberger Straße to Erlangen city center . After crossing under the Nuremberg – Bamberg railway line and stopping at Erlangen station (west side), the train is to cross the Pegnitz valley on a new bridge. Then it follows the Adenauerring through Alterlangen or the suburban settlement and then Büchenbach . To the southwest of Häusling, it crosses the BAB 3 and reaches the city of Herzogenaurach. There it is led via the Herzo Base from the north into the Herzogenaurach city center and ends near the former Herzogenaurach train station of the disused Aurachtalbahn .

In Nuremberg, the Stadt-Umland-Bahn is to be continued without changing trains via Am Wegfeld as Nuremberg tram line 4 on its existing tracks.

Other routes discussed

T-network

The long-discussed basic network comprised a T-shaped network oriented to the south, west and east, three connections to Nürnberg-Buch , to Herzogenaurach, and roughly following the route of the Erlangen – Eschenau railway to Eckental via Neunkirchen am Brand. In Eckental there would have been a connection to the Graefenbergbahn , in Nürnberg-Buch to the Nuremberg tram. In the planning since 2012, the east branch of the T network to Uttenreuth has been shortened, because if it had been continued to Neunkirchen, the profitability according to the standardized assessment and thus the eligibility would no longer have been met.

With the referendum in the district of Erlangen-Höchstadt, the T-network was abandoned until further notice and only the L-network (see above) was pursued. However, the route for the east branch should continue to be kept free in order to be able to implement it at a later date.

At the end of 2018, the mayors of 14 municipalities came together to form the Ostast StUB initiative , with the aim of commissioning a standardized assessment for an eastern branch with a connection to the Graefenbergbahn .

Alternative routes

As part of the standardized assessment of 2012, a line variant was also examined that differed significantly from the T-Netz in the west branch (so-called BI variant ): Starting from Erlangen train station, the train should be led south and south of the Anger district in two branches split up: One was supposed to lead over the Büchenbacher Damm to Büchenbach , whereby this route, in contrast to the T and L network, would also have opened up the south of Büchenbach. The second branch should continue to Bruck and there it would be led to the route of the disused Aurachtalbahn , which it would then have followed to Herzogenaurach. A benefit-cost ratio of less than 1 was determined for this route, so that it was rejected as not eligible for funding.

In 2013, the then Lord Mayor of Erlangen, Siegfried Balleis , suggested that the Stadt-Umland-Bahn should not run through the city center of Erlangen (so-called Campus-Bahn ): The train coming from Nuremberg would be along the B4 and then along Paul-Gossen-Straße and was thus led along the planned Siemens campus, in order to then be led directly over the Büchenbacher Damm to Büchenbach and on to Herzogenaurach. The proposal was no longer pursued after the 2014 municipal elections and Siegfried Balleis' election.

Another variant brought into play by Balleis would have been the Stadt-Umland-Bahn, again coming from Nuremberg via the Siemens campus and then further west than planned in the T or L network along Koldestrasse into Erlangen city center. At around Erlangen train station, she would have returned to the T-network route. This variant was discarded because Siemens refused to allow the train to run across the Siemens campus.

Planned extensions

financing

The investments in the infrastructure at the StUB amount to around 281 million euros, compared to the so-called regionally optimized bus network ( RoBus ) to around 201.4 million euros. Both measures could expect high government grants, up to 80 percent of eligible shares. Other sources speak of 365 and 407 million euros for the StUB.

The follow-up costs, which are to be borne by the three local authorities concerned (the cities of Erlangen and Nuremberg and the district of Erlangen-Höchstadt) as the responsible public transport authorities, are also decisive for the political decision-makers. At around eleven million euros, the StUB is around ten times as high as with the bus variant. The implementation of the StUB would result in a shift of 10,930 passenger journeys per day and a new induction of a further 2260 passenger journeys, with RoBus the shift would amount to 6610 passenger journeys and a new induction of 835 passenger journeys per day.

For 60% of the total eligible amount of 253 million euros, the federal government has promised to receive funding from the Municipal Transport Financing Act. Another 20% of this amount is to be raised from the Bavarian Financial Equalization Act. In the spring, the Bavarian Transport Minister Joachim Herrmann announced that his ministry was examining an increase in funding from the Free State by a further 10%, ie 25 million euros. The municipalities' own contribution would be reduced accordingly from 117 million euros to 92 million euros. In addition, the federal government should be encouraged to relax the funding criterion of independent railway bodies so that a further 20 million euros would be eligible.

Web links

Individual evidence

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