Landsberg - Tom Bohn's request to close the old mountain road downhill and the main square completely for cyclists, meets with the ADFC district association Landsberg and many residents of the East Landsberg with displeasure.
In a press release, the bicycle club is now vehemently against it.
“It's hard to believe,” says ADFC district chairman Martin Baumeister, “the city is currently in the process of developing a pedestrian and cycle path concept that is supposed to improve the conditions for non-motorized traffic -West connection for cyclists to cut. ”After all, the old one is next to the Neue Bergstrasse the only bike-compatible connection from the east to the train station and the Landsberg west.
The representation of FDP city councilor Bohn that cyclists are speeders discredit those road users who rely on environmentally friendly means of transport, according to Baumeister.
The majority of cyclists are sensible.
"In addition, bicycles are much safer today than in earlier times and also have good and safe brakes."
Many questions remained unanswered, for example: “What should you do with such a ban - push your bike or go straight into town by car?” Or: Would roads actually be closed because drivers drive inappropriately fast? The indication of an 18 percent gradient is also questionable - the ADFC comes to eleven percent according to its own calculations. In addition, the representation of the police - in two and a half years only two bicycle accidents without outside involvement - speaks for itself. Such accidents occur again and again in the entire city area - be it due to carelessness or driving over curbs.
“Banning cycling would be a backward policy - following the motto: The roads belong to the car,” Baumeister railed.
The opinions of citizens from the east of Landsberg also reached the ADFC.
For example, that children would rather be sent to school via the safer old woman than via the dangerous Neue Bergstrasse.
Or that the danger does not only come from cyclists, but also from motorists - because despite the ban, the Alte Bergstrasse is often used by cars as a shortcut to the main square and Schlossergasse.
It is the wrong application at the wrong time, in which climate-friendly mobility should be promoted.
Blocking a central bicycle axis would reduce this to absurdity, says Baumeister.
He very much hopes that the application will be clearly rejected in the city council on Wednesday.