The citizens' initiative from Iffeldorf-Untereurach has now sent its announced Tempo 60 petition to the Bavarian state parliament in Munich. It is directed against the district administration, among other things. The initiative hopes that the state parliament will deal with the petition immediately after the summer break.
Iffeldorf - After several failures to enforce Tempo 60 on the state road near Iffeldorf, last June the citizens' initiative from Iffeldorf-Untereurach had the idea of trying to petition the state parliament. In the same month, Hans-Dieter Necker, Johannes Wagner and Gerhard Kerfers explored the chances at a meeting with the two state parliament members Florian Ritter (SPD) and Andreas Krahl (Greens). They are not particularly large, but could bring a “new dynamic” into the debate, it was said at the time (we reported).
Iffeldorfer Tempo 60 petition is directed against the district office
Now the time has come. The initiative formulated a petition and signed it by Gerhard Kerfers and sent it to the Bavarian state parliament. The complaint is directed against the Weilheim-Schongau district office as well as the state building authority and the police. "In their negative statements, they did not take into account the overall situation or the traffic forecasts for the next few years," says the letter to the state parliament.
Iffeldorfer Tempo 60 petition: relocation of the town signs
The initiative, which had already collected signatures, named three points as a goal in its petition: on the one hand, increasing road safety and protecting the population from traffic noise, exhaust gases and fine dust; secondly, a speed limit of 60 km / h outside the existing place-name signs; thirdly, the relocation of the northern place-name sign near Untereurach to the beginning of the development of the residential building at Seeshaupter Strasse 45 near the commercial area. This, writes the initiative, will not reduce the efficiency of the state road in any way. The flow of traffic, it is said, is, on the contrary, optimized “through the steady, reduced speed”. Entrances, exits and crossings would also be significantly safer.
Initiative has been trying to enforce demand for over four years
For more than four years, the initiative has been trying to enforce Tempo 60 outside the Untereurach town signs. In 2018, she collected a total of 790 signatures for her request. As the most elegant solution, the initiative favors relocating the place-name signs and then allowing 60. She argues that there is a one-sided closed development in the area. In her petition to the state parliament, she points out other communities such as Seeshaupt, Bernried, Etting and Eberfing, where place-name signs have been moved “outside” or where speed limits of 60 kilometers per hour have been introduced. In all of these cases, the sum of the hazard points and the noise and exhaust emissions are far lower than in Iffeldorf-Untereurach, according to the initiative.
Tempo 60 petition: The chance of success is slim
At the on-site meeting in June with the two members of the state parliament, it was said that the order of a speed limit was the municipal sovereignty of the district and that the state parliament could not prescribe it. However, the two MPs saw it as a small chance when the petitions or transport committee comes to Iffeldorf to meet and the debate is given a “new boost”. The Untereuracher Hans-Dieter Necker did not give an assessment of the chances of success of the submitted petition. However, he hopes that the state parliament will deal with the petition after the summer break.
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