Central railway area in transition

Since 2003, residential neighbourhoods for around 17,200 people and around 21,300 jobs have been built between the main railway station and Pasing. The starting signal for this large-scale urban redevelopment came in the mid-1990s with the relocation of the container and marshalling yard to the outskirts of the city. For Munich, this was a unique opportunity to redevelop 178 hectares of industrial and commercial space in a central location. Office and commercial buildings now form a new urban edge along the railway line. The districts of the "Central Railway Areas" extend for eight kilometres from the city centre to the Würmgrünzug. They can be discovered via a network of footpaths and cycle paths on both sides of the railway.