Rosenheim (dpa / lby) - With an action in several places in the Inn Valley, citizens' initiatives want to protest again on Saturday (5 p.m.) against the construction of a double-track railway line. Around 1000 red warning poles along the planned route are intended to illustrate the dimensions of the structure, as reported by the Rosenheimer Land burner dialogue, an association of citizens' initiatives from the region. Residents want to demonstrate with torches and manifestos along the approximately 60-kilometer stretch of the planned northern access to the Brenner Pass from Grafing to Kiefersfelden.
The campaign is accompanied by three parallel rallies in Ostermünchen, Lauterbach and Oberaudorf. In Ostermünchen, funeral music is intended to draw attention to the fact that the sports field there must be "buried" - provided that the route is built.
The northern access to the Brenner Pass is intended to be a feeder to the Brenner Base Tunnel, which is being built in Austria and Italy and which should be completed in around ten years.
From the point of view of the citizens' initiatives, an expansion and modernization of the existing tracks is sufficient. Deutsche Bahn, on the other hand, argues that rail freight traffic will increase with the opening of the Brenner Base Tunnel. Only the construction of two new tracks as a northern approach can create the necessary capacities in the long term.
