The new edition of the city bus is intended to give older people in Grafing more mobility.
A donation made a new start possible.
Grafing - The offer has already existed.
At the time, however, it was not sufficiently accepted.
The Grafinger city bus finally had to be slowed down in 2005.
The run-in deficit was simply too big for an inner-city shopping line.
Since then, however, a decade and a half have passed and the proportion of those who are less and less mobile in old age and who no longer have their own vehicle has grown steadily.
A donation made a new start possible.
The driving force behind this was, among other things, the Seniors' Advisory Board under its old chairman Josef Koller.
The project was presented at the latest meeting of the committee under the new chairmanship of Elfriede Modest.
New shopping bus line in Grafing: New bus brought a breath of fresh air to the planning
This story is full of detours: A red bus comes from a private donation.
But the mobile had a crucial flaw.
It was too generous.
There was space for 18 people in the car.
Too many for a volunteer driver with a normal driver's license.
It is only allowed to transport eight people.
The donation then dawned on the building yard for a year.
But now there was movement in the matter, as Mayor Christian Bauer (CSU) informed in the senior citizens' advisory board meeting.
The old bus was “handed over” and a smaller copy was procured.
“It's almost new and very comfortable,” says the mayor happily.
It is the same model that "also uses the care star".
New shopping bus line in Grafing: two shopping routes every 40 minutes
The city administration operates a counseling center for the elderly and the needy. The contact person there is Angelika Beutel. In the advisory board meeting, she explained that two tours are being worked out at the moment. According to initial considerations, the shopping route on Mondays would start at 9 a.m. at the Stadtbahnhof and lead out of town via Wasserburger Straße, then stop at Nettelkofen and Grafing-Bahnhof, as well as at the parking lot in front of the Aldi, the Singer Edeka market and the Lidl parking lot . There is a stay of 40 minutes there and then the journey would lead back on the same route.
The second shopping route, according to Beutel, would start on Thursday at 9 a.m. at Schönblick, and via Dichau, Straussdorf, Unterelkofen and Oberelkofen, head back to the parking spaces in front of Lidl, Singer and Aldi.
Here, too, the journey leads back via the same route after a 40 minute stop.
Just get in and ride with you is not possible.
Registration for the Monday tour must be made by Thursday in advance, and for the Thursday tour by Monday before at 12 noon, at the gate in the town hall, stating the telephone number and the place of boarding.
A revision of the routes should take place after a trial period.
New shopping bus route in Grafing: Market place and local businesses not part of the route
Why is the marketplace missing as a destination?
It was difficult to set up a stop there, it was explained in the panel.
It is important to include Wasserburger Strasse because “our social housing is there”.
A registration is necessary, "not that ten people are standing at the bus stop, that would not be nice," said Beutel.
Councilor Ottilie Eberl (Greens) criticized the route: “I don't like the fact that Aldi, Edeka and Lidl are approached so much, then people go where they don’t donate” and who would not pay taxes in Grafing either.
Eberl's opinion: "Better to go to the local businesses" by bus.
New shopping bus line in Grafing: Mayor Christian Bauer looking forward to a practical test
Bag, on the other hand, argued that these inner-city businesses are easier to reach on foot for senior citizens.
Josef Carpus suggested "when it starts to do a survey".
The mayor took the same view: “Let's not start with 150 percent right away,” he pleaded for a practical text.
There is already a driver who wants to drive the elderly on a trial basis, informed city councilor Josef Rothmoser (CSU).
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