The rumor goes around again and again among motorists that the municipalities are filling their coffers because they would cash out if they were driving too fast.
This is definitely not the case in Groebenzell.
Groebenzell - In the past few months, the municipality has spent more than it earned on controlling driving and parking traffic.
Because the municipality has received significantly less money from radar measurements than it has spent.
“The parking monitoring system finances the speed monitoring,” Mayor Martin Schäfer (UWG) summed up the situation at the latest meeting of the finance committee.
However, Schäfer's statement is not entirely true: The income from the parking offenders could not completely offset the expenses for the speed controls.
In the months of June and July, the total expenditure for traffic monitoring was around EUR 1000 and around EUR 1400 higher than the income.
However, the expenses could be reduced.
Since March of this year, stationary traffic in the village has been controlled by the municipal traffic monitoring association, and since May also flowing traffic.
So far, however, the municipality has only concluded an agreement with the Zweckverband to monitor traffic.
Cheaper as a member
But if it becomes a member, it will be cheaper.
The costs for the speed control then decrease by 30 euros per hour, for the wrongdoers by six euros.
The local council will decide on membership on October 21st.
As the responsible employee in the town hall, Anja Metz, emphasized in the finance committee, “it is actually a good thing that the speed monitoring does not cover costs”. Because this shows "that the Gröbenzeller keep to the prescribed speed". According to Schäfer, the measurements did not reveal any focal points where the vehicle was driven too fast. Not even on the state road, added Metz. Only the Wildmoosstraße is an exception here.
The chairman of the CSU parliamentary group, Anton Kammerl, used the item on the agenda to pass on complaints from citizens about the speed in Zillerhofstrasse in the Pfarrer-Thaurer-Strasse area.
Because in this area the speedometer can show a maximum of 30 kilometers per hour.
The citizens asked themselves why the pace had to be reduced at night too, at a time when neither schoolchildren nor other cyclists were out here, said Kammerl.
City hall chief Schäfer, however, explained to him that this was deliberately decided.
Because if you are allowed to drive slowly, sometimes quickly, at some point you will no longer know what is actually permitted, says Schäfer.
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