Munich: No Cable Car For The Frankfurter Ring

The city council's mobility committee has decided to no longer pursue the idea of ​​a cable car on the Frankfurter Ring. A feasibility study by the mobility department had previously explored what new options there could be to improve the traffic situation on the Frankfurter Ring. According to the expert team, both the preferred variant of the feasibility study between Fasanerie and Studentenstadt and the route from Studentenstadt to Unterföhring are expensive, but have only relatively little transport benefit. However, the city council has commissioned the mobility department to continue to examine whether there are routes in the city area, for example in connection with the region, on which a cable car could bring transport benefits at a reasonable cost.

A cable car, a tram and an express bus route were compared. The study showed that a cable car on the Frankfurter Ring would be technically feasible and could also be integrated into urban planning and the natural environment. However, a cable car would hardly bring in any new passengers compared to the alternatives examined: trams and express buses. The costs are extremely high at an estimated 433 million euros.

The same applies to the route between the student town over the Isar to Unterföhring: here too, high costs of around 160 million euros are offset by comparatively low transport benefits. Nine route variants were examined for the study. The almost eleven kilometer long route along the Frankfurter Ring between the Fasanerie and Unterföhring S-Bahn stations has the greatest passenger potential for the cable car with 23,000 passengers per day. It was therefore examined in more detail as a preferred variant. Among other things, street cross-sections and the location of diversion structures were examined, as well as possible shading from station buildings or cabins as well as possible visual and noise pollution for residents.

Half of the study was subsidized by the Bavarian State Ministry of Housing, Building and Transport (StMB). Stadtwerke München GmbH and other municipal and state departments were involved.