The construction site on Bahnhofstrasse has far-reaching implications for the retailers, who are still open.
The community has already responded.
Gauting - Drivers and other road users have apparently quickly adjusted to the closure of Gautinger Bahnhofstrasse.
The police noted on Thursday that it was "getting used to", the traffic flowed better than at the beginning of the week.
For the retail trade in the restricted area, however, the work has sometimes devastating consequences.
Since the start of the lockdown on Monday, the situation for local businesses has been "getting worse", reported Tobias Mc Fadden (MfG / Piraten) to the main committee on Tuesday evening. In many cases, customers do not know how to get to the shops behind the barriers. Since Thursday there has been an appeal for solidarity on the community website: “The shops are open and are counting on you!” Mc Fadden asked whether the community could at least have a sign to the nearby parking lots on Hubert-Deschler-Strasse.
The shopkeepers complain of heavy losses in sales. As soon as the construction work on the sidewalk started, his sales fell “by 70 percent” on Monday, says Ugur Ucas, the owner of the “Kebabhaus”. And the two days after that, the decrease was 50 percent. On Thursday morning, construction workers also had to remove the makeshift ramp to the entrance to his snack bar. He doesn't know how his customers can get into his shop without a ramp, but neither does he know “how much longer I can hold out,” says Ugur Ucas. Despite the construction site, he had to pay the full shop rent.
After one and a half years of construction, it was "hardened", explains Uschi Hofmann, owner of the perfumery "Flair", but "now the excavator is right at my door".
A customer immediately complained that she could not be treated with this construction noise.
The construction workers tried to get the work done as quickly as possible, but as a businesswoman, they did not get any information beforehand about what was coming next.
Three weeks ago she only received a general email that Bahnhofstrasse had to be broken into.
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Stationery dealer Johannes Hanrieder.
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The town hall contradicts this on request: Economic developer Dr.
Fabian Kühnel-Widmann and Harald Ruhbaum, the chairman of the trade association “Together for Gauting”, invited the affected dealers to an on-site visit on June 28th.
The business development agency made another offer to those he had not reached.
And since Thursday the call for solidarity has also been on the community homepage.
Since the lockdown, she has lost sales, in addition to those caused by the lockdown, explains Uschi Hofmann.
Your customers do not know where to park or how the barrier works.
She was "completely surprised" by yesterday's work on the sidewalk.
“I've had massive problems since Monday,” says Johannes Hanrieder. Since the start of work in front of the door of his stationery shop, “I was alone in the shop in the afternoon”. For cyclists and pedestrians, the closed, narrow remaining sidewalk is "a disaster". His regular customers first called and asked: “Are you even open?” An older customer who relies on her walker does not come any more. Since the end of the parking lot, his turnover has already fallen by 50 percent. The construction workers are “very helpful”, but if things continue like this and he stands alone in the shop for two hours in the afternoon, he will have to look for an additional job, according to the retailer. In order for the stationery lottery business founded by his father Josef Hanrieder to continue to exist, his wife would have to be in the shop.
Road users in Gauting are not the only ones who have "a few difficult weeks" before the end of the summer vacation, says city hall spokeswoman Charlotte Rieboldt. "Above all, our local retailers are suffering from the current blockage, but their customers can still reach them," she appeals to the solidarity of the Gautingers.