Improvements to the diversions in the area of the major Sontowski construction site are having an effect: the traffic jams have become shorter.
Although the first phase will only run until the end of next week, the one-way regulations will remain in place for road users for months.
Gauting
- A new diversion around the large Sontowski construction site at Gautinger Bahnhofplatz has been in force for a few days.
With this the handicaps in the initial phase of the work obviously come to an end.
Since vehicles in the upper section of Bahnhofstrasse are only allowed to drive uphill in one direction, the traffic jams on Bahnhofstrasse would have been shorter, Gauting's police chief Ernst Wiedemann noted with regard to the new regulations by the district office.
Turning onto Ammerseestrasse from Bahnhofstrasse is currently impossible - so that doesn't slow down the flow of traffic.
“Today it went perfectly,” the head of the department drew a first interim balance for Monday.
However, some drivers did not realize that they were no longer allowed to turn from the train station onto Ammerseestrasse - on Rafael-Katz- and Ammerseestrasse the diversion traffic is currently flowing in one-way traffic.
Wiedemann lets his officers watch the situation in the morning, but the traffic runs smoothly.
Nobody complained either.
It was completely different before: When turning left in the direction of Ammerseestrasse, long traffic jams formed in front of the traffic lights at the major construction site on Bahnhofstrasse, which was previously passable uphill and downhill, in the morning and early evening as far as Münchener Strasse.
From the Aral petrol station on Münchener Strasse, near which he supplied a customer, it took him a full half an hour back to his shop on Bahnhofstrasse, reported natural food store owner Dieter Mückenhausen, for example, last week.
Without traffic jams, you only need four minutes for this 1.2-kilometer route.
Police chief Wiedemann is therefore satisfied with the current diversion.
Because the traffic is flowing better than before.
Basically, the citizens would have to "just accept" that there is a major construction site at the station.
Both the community of Gauting and the primary school rector Andrea Hofmann were surprised by the new regulation of the district authority.
As of this week, the regular buses no longer stop in the parking lot in front of the upper primary school Ammerseestrasse, but next to the train station at Park-and-Ride-Platz, i.e. the current one-way diversion at Rafael-Katz-Strasse.
The municipality quickly initiated a “walking bus” for the primary school children to the new replacement bus stops, said city hall spokesman Andreas Röming on request.
So far, this “bus with feet” has been going very well, according to Rector Andrea Hofmann.
In the morning and at lunchtime, school guide Christina Bredow accompanies children in groups from the replacement bus stop via the pedestrian diversion to the primary school and vice versa.
“We are still in the testing phase,” says Rector Hofmann.
After the end of lessons, Sergej Schischkin, the school walker, took care of the work site and accompanied the children in groups over the busy diversion route towards the underpass.
In the morning there is now a lot more car traffic, the school helper criticizes the current solution.
Phase 1 of the diversion around the major construction site will run until November 27, explains Römig.
The one-way regulation on Bahnhofstrasse, on Rafael-Katzstrasse and Ammerseestrasse inland will remain until February 2021. After the new regulation since this week there have been "no complaints" in the town hall.
Christine Cless-Wesle