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2020-06-06T08:48:11.379Z


In view of the impending shortfall due to the corona pandemic, the city has put all major road construction measures to the test. Result: The renovation of Schleißheimer Straße should be pushed ahead despite the high costs. The renovation of Brucker Strasse, on the other hand, has to wait.


In view of the impending shortfall due to the corona pandemic, the city has put all major road construction measures to the test. Result: The renovation of Schleißheimer Straße should be pushed ahead despite the high costs. The renovation of Brucker Strasse, on the other hand, has to wait.

Dachau - The Environment and Transport Committee has been talking a lot recently about the topic of responsibility. CSU spokesman Peter Strauch, for example, found it responsible if one asked as a city councilor: "What can we still afford and what not?" But traffic officer Volker C. Koch (SPD) considered it just as responsible if the public sector - despite Shortage of funds - invest: “Companies have to be able to continue working. The municipalities cannot stop everything! ”Mayor Florian Hartmann saw it similarly: the city could not simply“ do nothing more ”. When it comes to road construction, it should also be noted that postponing refurbishments can make some damage even greater. Hartmann says that little has happened in Dachau for decades anyway. We push a mountain ahead of us. And that is catching up with us now ”.

Aside from the four CSU councils and the AfD representative, the majority of the committee therefore voted in favor of the administration's compromise proposal: the reconstruction of Schleißheimer Strasse is being carried out, the whispered asphalt on Brucker Strasse - from Mitterfeldweg to the district office - is being postponed.

The following is now planned on Schleißheimer Strasse in the area between Theodor-Heussstrasse and Würmstrasse by the end of the year: For example, the traffic link is to be equipped with a noise-reducing road surface from autumn; The estimated cost for this is around 450,000 euros. A central island is also to be built in at level 84 - as "crossing aid and increased traffic safety for pedestrians", as the administration says; Cost: 30,000 euros.

The most far-reaching measure for the users of Schleißheimer Straße and estimated at a total cost of just under EUR 40,000 is a redistribution of the 9.40-meter wide cross-section of the road: 1.85-meter-wide wheel protection strips are marked on both sides; the main carriageway is now only 5.70 meters wide. The administration writes that this is sufficient for oncoming traffic at a speed of 50. If two very wide vehicles actually come towards each other, the entire width of the road including the protective strips can be used - of course, provided there is no cyclist on the road.

While the “ambitious” cyclists, who have to go to work, for example, are supposed to be on the road, according to the traffic officer Koch, the sidewalks still have the additional sign “Cyclists free”. The slower pedalists could then be traveling there, "at walking pace" of course.

However: With the introduction of the bicycle protection strips, the "tolerated parking" in the lane leading into town has come to an end. According to the building authorities, there will be 28 to 30 parking spaces there. The residents, Mayor Florian Hartmann reported, had already been asked what they thought of the measure at an on-site meeting. And, "as is so often the case in life, there were those who thought it was good and those who did not find it so good, it is almost in balance". According to Hartmann, many residents are happy that the "Buchbinder showroom will disappear" as a result of the future parking ban and that it will now be easier for them to exit their driveways. Others, on the other hand, feared that the trucks would now switch to the side streets.

One reason, says Hartmann, why the city also preferred work on Schleißheimer Strasse to that on Brucker Strasse was the fact that this year the Emmy-Noether-Strasse leading to the new business park was being built. Their intersection with Schleißheimer and Erasmus-Reismüller-Straße will be equipped with traffic lights and other wheel protection strips. If all measures were summarized, the city administration would see "synergy effects in terms of costs and a shorter burden on residents". Speaker Koch praised this as "useful. Because the intersection we have to build. We can take part in the rest right away ”.

Source: merkur

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