Kernrechtsfrage
Whether the Sentibrücken subproject required a third-stage environmental impact assessment.
Extrahierter Entscheid
Yes. The combined tunnel-closure and noise-control works materially increased the environmental burden, especially regarding accident and tunnel safety risks, so a stage-3 EIA was mandatory.
Extrahierte Begründung
The project was not a mere standard noise barrier replacement. Because the measures partially created an enclosure-like situation and reduced the distance between affected tunnel portals to about 85 meters, they raised project- and site-specific ventilation and catastrophe-protection issues beyond standard technical measures.