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Around 46 hectares of replacement areas are planned in the region. Consequently, there are 20 hectares in the Muttenz sorting yard and 10.7 hectares in ancillary railway areas and along the Birsfelden / Auhafen port railway, as Gateway Basel Nord AG announced on Friday. Another 8.6 hectares are in Langen Erlen and 6.5 hectares in the Hard area in Pratteln.
This means that four times more replacement space would be created than Gateway Basel Nord and Port Basin 3 would build, the statement continues.
Ecological improvement measures for animals and plants are foreseen in a total of 45.8 hectares of replacement areas, which would create new, dry and warm habitats. A continuous 60 meter wide network corridor will also be maintained through the gateway and the adjacent Deutsche Bahn NEAT feeder.
Marked in yellow: the new nature conservation areas in the Gateway Basel Nord concept. (Image: Gateway Basel Nord)
Uvek has the last word
The Federal Department for the Environment, Transport, Energy and Communications (Uvek) had approved the “Adaptation of mobility” structure plan in July on the condition that the dry meadow necessary for the construction of the Basel Nord trimodal terminal near Basel Rhine port had the necessary replacement area should be established.
According to the federal inventory of dry meadows and pastures, the area of the former German classification yard, which has been fallow for years, is “of national importance” and is protected accordingly.
Conservationists dissatisfied with the concept
Environmental protection associations are working to preserve this area and, together with other organizations, have held the referendum against the 115 million loan for the construction of the new port basin. 3. Markus Ritter, biologist and member of the Committee. all satisfied with the concept presented. “Something is getting confused now. In the whole region. Something there, something here. But it has absolutely nothing to do with the legal requirements for a surrogate measure. “
Markus Ritter first examined the Deutsche Bahn site 35 years ago. Even then, the biologist found incredibly diverse flora and fauna. When the Deutsche Bahn left the area about 20 years ago, nature took hold of the scepter. “The substance has not only stayed the same, it has even improved.” He feels that it is an Front that he is trying to build here. Next Tuesday the non-commission will begin voting against it. On November 29, the people of Basel can vote on the credit for the completion of the port 3 basin.
