Noise alarm in Ostholstein: Citizens fear Zugchaos from 2029!

Noise alarm in Ostholstein: Citizens fear Zugchaos from 2029!

Ostholstein. Here it will change at the level crossing in Heringsdorf, but that will change soon! The signal lights are covered with plastic bags and the barriers in Göhl have already been dismantled. At the moment, only sporadically is running, because train traffic between Neustadt and Fehmarn has been set since August 2022. But from 2029, when the rail back connection has been completed, traffic will explode!

prepare for a traffic chaos! A daily up to 70 freight trains with a length of up to 835 meters are thundered through the region. Bad Schwartau in particular will be affected: In addition to the freight trains, 220 trips in local transport and 24 in long -distance transport are expected - a total of 314 train passages per day! The residents are alarmed because the noise barriers and vibration troughs that are planned could not be enough to protect them from noise.

Traffic forecast 2030 as the basis for noise protection

The alliance against the solid fehmarnbelt crossing Alarm! According to Bodo Gehrke, freight transport could increase by up to 80 percent. "Since there are already no more frills free, there is a risk that they all drive at night," he warns. The current noise protection plans are not sufficient, and the old traffic forecasts still apply to the calculations. A railway spokesman confirms: "If the figures of the 2040 traffic forecast are final, we have to see where we still have to adjust the noise and vibration protection." But what happens if the planning approval decisions have already been granted?

Oldenburg Mayor Jörg Saba calls for uniform noise protection for all sections of the route. "It would be difficult if we alternately have different noise protection on the route," he says. On November 28th there will be a dialogue forum in which high -ranking representatives of the railway, the state government and the municipalities will discuss these burning questions. The decision could be made in Berlin!