Murnau suffocates in a traffic jam: Over 17,000 vehicles roll through the center of town on the B 2 on normal working days. The construction of a bypass has been under discussion for years: the so-called western tangent, which was classified as a priority in the Federal Transport Infrastructure Plan. However, the route would be a disaster for a Seehauser.
Seehausen - If the western tangent is built on the area on Riedhauser Flur in Seehausen, there would be a victim: Ruppert Jais is a farmer and maintains agricultural areas on a large area, partly for livestock farming, but mainly as a cultivation area for fodder. The grass is cut four times a year, which serves as a food base for his 43 cows throughout the year.
Jais is currently on the road to fertilize the meadows, the first cut is to be made in mid-May. The operation of the 43-year-old married father of three children is fully geared to the extensive use of the approximately 17 hectares of land - his existence as a farmer would be ruined if the authorities gave the go-ahead for the construction project. "The road would run completely through this area, for me that would be the worst case scenario," says the Seehauser. To get other meadows in the surrounding area - almost hopeless, since almost all the areas in question are cultivated. He has no professional alternatives, a job being "absolutely impossible, because taxes eat me up".
It will only be a matter of time before a relief road comes for the traffic-plagued Murnau. Because the relief road, which was inaugurated in 1998, has not changed much for the town. Cars, trucks, buses and motorcycles continue to roll on this road through the Staffelsee community. As stated in the Federal Transport Infrastructure Plan 2030, the local transit is part of the supraregional north-south connection between Starnberg, Weilheim and Garmisch-Partenkirchen. The high volume of traffic as well as a number of highly polluted junctions and intersections almost lead to a collapse in peak daily traffic. It is almost certain that what will happen to remedy the situation.
However, it could also amount to a variant other than that which is said to extend the existing relief road, run west of the Kemmelpark and merge into Bundesstrasse 2 in the north. As reported, the State Building Office in Weilheim is currently examining several variants, but it is only at the beginning of the planning. An engineering firm had been commissioned to check various route layouts. However, the western tangent is the most likely, as Werner Hüntelmann, head of the planning and construction department at the authority, recently announced. But it is also a route in the east under the magnifying glass.
The construction project in Murnau is being discussed controversially: the SPD and the Greens are against it, Mayor Rolf Beuting (ÖDP / Bürgerforum) wants to wait for the preliminary examinations with exact facts and figures, an unreserved yes to the project comes from the CSU, the free voters and Move more .
But what does the Seehauser Rathaus say? Since the massive traffic would then be handled through the neighboring community, the project should plunge on a front of rejection. Mayor Markus Hörmann (CSU), however, endeavors to find an amicable solution and differentiation. "It is clear that Murnau has a traffic problem," he says when asked about Tagblatt. However, it is now important to keep a cool head and wait for the results of the variant planning, as he emphatically emphasizes. "It's good that the exam is finally running." When the drafts are available, "we'll sit down and see which one is the best".