The Bavarian Transport Minister Kerstin Schreyer and Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann present a new road safety program.
There should be fewer accidents by 2030.
Munich - Last year, the number of road deaths on Bavaria's streets fell to 484 - the lowest level since records began.
The value also results from the lower volume of traffic in the Corona year.
According to the will of Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann and Transport Minister Kerstin Schreyer (both CSU), however, it should be permanently reduced.
They presented their joint road safety program 2030 in Munich on Monday. In the multi-point plan, the ministries set out the procedure for the next ten years.
Transport in Bavaria should become safer - Transport Minister Schreyer wants to improve roads
“The aim must be that nobody has an accident,” said Schreyer.
"That is not realistic, but our goal will remain." When the police ring the doorbell and have to inform them that someone has had an accident, the family does not care about the statistics, stressed the minister.
Interior Minister Herrmann also said: "Every dead person is one too many."
In order to increase the safety of motorists, Schreyer wants to improve the quality of the roads.
As examples, she cited more left-turn lanes and fewer unsecured level crossings *.
Motorcyclists should benefit from guard rails with underrun protection.
The Ministry of Transport is also relying on more haptic warnings such as rumble strips in the curve area.
Herrmann warned the motorcyclists: "Extra loud crashing and rattling is no trivial offense." Cyclists should benefit from the expansion of the network of paths and clearer intersections.
Schreyer wants to protect children, people with disabilities and the elderly with central islands and zebra crossings.
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“Over the past ten years, 2,500 points in the road network have been improved.
On rural roads, accidents at these sections have decreased by up to 60 percent, ”emphasized the Minister of Transport.
Herrmann announced, however, that he would be monitoring country roads more intensively.
Electronic emergency call systems * in cars, training for rescue workers for electric vehicles, shorter waiting times and longer green phases at pedestrian traffic lights should reduce the number of deaths.
The Minister of the Interior emphasized: "The tuning of pedelecs is also punished by the police." He advises motorists to do driving exercises, eye and health tests.
500 million euros are available for construction measures by 2030 - 60 million more than in the previous ten years.
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