New guard rails along the B 471 should ensure more safety.
However, some of the workers at Grafrath had to move out a second time - because private access roads were closed.
Grafrath
- Norbert Stöppel couldn't believe his eyes when he was driving on the B 471 between Grafrath and Inning a few days ago.
The Grafrath hunter and forest owner saw the new guardrail that was being erected on the right-hand side when driving towards the Inning.
At first he thought of a prank prank.
“This guardrail was installed on a straight stretch where an accident has never happened,” he says.
But that's not all.
“An official gravel road into Ampermoos has also been blocked.” The fact that a path branches off at this point can be recognized by a sign “Access prohibited - residents free”.
The guard rails were nevertheless installed.
Neither the owner of the adjacent private forest - until recently the forest belonged to Stöppel before he sold it - nor the landowners in the direction of Amper could reach their areas with vehicles.
What Stöppel also complains about: Rescue operations (Stöppel: "What if it should burn in the Ampermoos?") Would be made more difficult.
And even hunters would not have been able to control the wild boar population to protect the ground-nesters, or only with much difficulty.
In particular, the recovery of the 50 to 100 kilogram animals would hardly have been possible without access by car.
Montage was an accident
A Tagblatt request at the road construction office revealed: The assembly in this form was apparently an oversight.
"In fact, the guardrails were installed in such a way that access to the property in question was no longer guaranteed," says official spokesman Thomas Jakob.
The workers at least moved out quickly and removed the guardrail at the driveway.
Apparently, it wasn't the only point where this mishap happened.
Stöppel knows of a farmer who had also insisted on the dismantling of the planks elsewhere between Grafrath and Schöngeising.
According to the Grafrather, the officially permissible access via the federal road to the meadow there was blocked.
“The farmer could at least get to his area via another road,” says Stöppel.
According to Jakob, the fact that the new guard rails were built has to do with the Federal Ministry of Transport's 2030 road safety program.
The basis is the "Vision Zero" safety strategy, with which serious personal injury in road traffic is to be avoided as far as possible.
This strategy provides for guardrails wherever obstacles are closer than 4.50 meters to the edges of federal roads and at the same time a maximum speed of at least 70 kilometers per hour is permitted.
"And regardless of previous accidents," as the spokesman for the road construction authority emphasizes.
As part of this, new protective devices with a length of 22 kilometers and costs of around 2.5 million euros are now being built in the area of the Freising Office alone - including crash barriers that are just a few meters long that shield individual trees from the roadway.
Stöppel is of course happy about the quick dismantling of the wrongly set guardrails.
However, the fact that the neighboring owners were not spoken to about the driveways prior to construction still annoys him.
