Regensburg suburban railway

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As metro line Regensburg the citizens' initiative called PRO-city triangle track, the railway line between since early 2017 Burglengenfeld about Regensburg after Langquaid similar to the naming of the metro line Erlangen , in the extension possibly as a tram-train concept on the light rail Regensburg .

Urban rail approach

background

The starting position in Regensburg is extremely difficult. Over 70,000 people commute into the city from the surrounding area every day, mostly by car.

The Danube stretches across Regensburg in a west-east direction.

Many jobs, industrial locations and leisure activities are located south of the Danube in Regensburg. However, the Danube is only crossed by traffic routes in four places in a north-south direction: three road bridges and one railway bridge.

The road crossings also have another disadvantage: One of the crossings is a motorway which, in addition to regional traffic, also has to cope with supra-regional north-south traffic and also has a second bottleneck in the form of the Pfaffenstein tunnel.

Based on the knowledge that in addition to east-west traffic, especially in north-south traffic at rush hours within and around Regensburg, there are massive traffic jams, the roads can no longer accommodate any further traffic and the crossing A 3 motorway has 6 lanes is being expanded and will consequently bring even more traffic in the direction of the A93, the city-surrounding railway between Langquaid and Burglengenfeld was brought into play for Regensburg through the Pro-Städtedreiecksbahn initiative.

Section Laabertalbahn

The Eggmühl – Langquaid line is known as the Laabertal Railway . The association based here, together with the neighboring communities, maintains the track system and carries out historical event and freight traffic. The municipalities of Langquaid and Schierling are actively involved in maintaining the track system and are working on a “city area concept” for a connection to Regensburg without having to change trains.

Section Eggmühl – Regensburg

The track section from Regensburg main station to the Obertraubling junction has reached its capacity limits, and the Airport Express between Regensburg and Munich Airport was already very difficult to accommodate here. A third track is already being planned in the Federal Transport Infrastructure Plan and is at an early planning stage. This track is a prerequisite for further traffic between Langquaid and Regensburg.

Section Regensburg – Maxhütte-Haidhof

The route between Regensburg and Maxhütte-Haidhof, as a section of the Regensburg-Hof connection, has not yet been electrified. There are expansion plans for this route with very long implementation periods, and possible electrification is also in the room. Additional capacities are available here for a Regensburg suburban railway.

Section Burglengenfeld – Maxhütte

The Haidhof – Burglengenfeld railway is located between Burglengenfeld and Maxhütte-Haidhof . Passenger traffic on this route has been suspended since 1967, while freight traffic towards the cement works has continued to increase in recent years. The Bavarian Railway Company is currently looking into reactivating passenger transport in the direction of Regensburg. Initial announcements show that there is a very high chance that local rail transport will be restarted.

Extension to a later Regensburg city railway

The concept of the urban suburban railway approach of the citizens' initiative is a direct connection to the city of Regensburg without changing trains, in the first implementation phase as a continuous north-south connection exclusively on the Deutsche Bahn network and in the second phase through partial use of the urban railway lines as a tram-train concept, similar to the Chemnitz Model .

Assessment

The Komobile office received the order in 2019 to examine this approach due to the many requests to continue the Regensburg light rail into the surrounding area. The appraisal office clearly gave the new construction of tram routes to the surrounding area a 'basket'. For the construction of new tram routes to the surrounding area, the surrounding area is too sprawled and there is no corresponding demand for eligibility.

The Bavarian Railway Company is examining the approach of a suburban railway on railway tracks with a later connection on the city railway as part of a major report for the Regensburg area.

Terminology

In the discussion, various partly contradicting concepts are being worked on within the framework of an urban bypass, which is called for by many sides.

Regardless of political affiliation, the approach of the Karlsruhe model ( tram goes to the surrounding area ) is confused with the construction of new tram routes to the surrounding area (Erlangen) as well as the Chemnitz model ( tram- like regional rail vehicles go into the city ).

The Komobile office clearly rejected the “tram routes to the surrounding area” approach. Nevertheless, this concept is repeatedly requested for testing a Regensburg suburban railway:

From the point of view of many district politicians, only the approach of the Chemnitz model is realistic for planning a regional railway in Regensburg without changing trains.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sebastian Stricker: The light rail concept as a model? In: New Osnabrück Newspaper. September 5, 2018, accessed October 20, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Sebastian Wintermeier: Traffic problems: Upper Palatinate entrepreneurs complain about additional costs. In: Bayerischer Rundfunk. September 23, 2019, accessed October 20, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Michael Jaumann: Umlandbahn: The tracks are already there. In: Mittelbayerische Zeitung. March 6, 2017, accessed October 20, 2019 .
  4. ↑ On the Eggmühl – Langquaid route - the historic Laabertal Railway is back. In: Wochenblatt. April 7, 2019, accessed October 20, 2019 .
  5. ^ Fritz Wallner: Avoid the collapse of traffic. In: Mittelbayerische Zeitung. September 14, 2019, accessed October 20, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Expansion of the rail bottleneck Regensburg – Obertraubling is going too slowly for the Greens. In: Wochenblatt. June 5, 2019, accessed October 20, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Marcel Kehrer: Info evening for electrification of the railway line Regensburg-Hof. In: Bayerischer Rundfunk. February 26, 2019, accessed October 20, 2019 .
  8. ↑ Jürgen Umlauft: Good chances for a rail connection from Burglengenfeld to Maxhütte-Haidhof. In: Onetz. September 24, 2019, accessed October 20, 2019 .
  9. ^ Region: Regensburg city railway. In: A light rail for Regensburg. March 12, 2016, accessed October 20, 2019 .
  10. ↑ Christof Seidl: Stadtbahn should lead into the country. In: Mittelbayerische Zeitung. March 16, 2018, accessed October 20, 2019 .
  11. ↑ Development concept for the Regensburg region: City and district tackle together. In: TVA Ostbayern. July 10, 2019, accessed October 20, 2019 .
  12. ^ Jan-Lennart Loeffler: Stadtbahn is reaching its limits. In: Mittelbayerische Zeitung. October 4, 2019, accessed October 20, 2019 .
  13. ↑ Jusos Landkreis Regensburg / press release: Landkreis-Jusos call for the urban railway to be developed into a suburban railway. In: Wochenblatt. October 13, 2019, accessed October 20, 2019 .
  14. ↑ Julia Ried: Planners examine trams in the countryside. In: Mittelbayerische Zeitung. August 21, 2018, accessed October 20, 2019 .
  15. ↑ CSU Regensburg-Land / press release: District CSU relies on a "regional train with inner-city development". In: Wochenblatt. August 25, 2019, accessed October 20, 2019 .
  16. ↑ Tobias Gotthardt calls for “urban rethinking in infrastructure projects”. In: Wochenblatt. July 4, 2018, accessed October 20, 2019 .
  17. ↑ Thomas Rieke: Bahn: Perseverance is necessary. In: Mittelbayerische Zeitung. June 18, 2018, accessed October 20, 2019 .