A project that will cost around 225,000 euros is supposed to bring more safety and comfort for cyclists: closing the gap on the Murnau-Kochel cycle path in the area where it joins the accident clinic.
A much-used stretch of road will be closed.
Murnau
- The goal is clear: Murnau would like to promote bicycle traffic more and become a permanent member of the working group of bicycle-friendly municipalities in Bavaria.
The basis is a decision by the municipal council to create and implement a bicycle traffic concept.
The place is apparently heading in a promising direction: "It was confirmed to us that Murnau is on the right track," said Philipp Zehnder at the meeting of the building committee on Tuesday evening.
Bicycle-friendly municipality: Murnau is still a few steps away from the award
The environmental officer of the community gave an assessment of the working group, which had assessed the development of the past four years on site in autumn 2020.
The implemented steps were therefore positively received.
But Murnau also got “homework” - the reviewers were still missing individual points for an award.
Among them was the fundamental decision to “promote cycling in a special way” with the aim of enabling citizens to use the bike as a safe, pleasant and sustainable means of transport for everyday trips.
Promotion of cycling: the project catalog needs to be revised
The building committee voted unanimously in favor, the municipal council has the last word. The committee also approved the revision of the concept, which was also requested. The catalog of measures had to be updated because the district office and the state building authority had rejected several initially planned steps and projects. According to Zehnder, what could not be implemented was replaced by other projects. These include, among other things, the cycle path between the train station and Seestrasse, which is to be relocated, the route along Poschinger-Allee to the TSV site, and the new construction along the road between Westried and Grafenaschau. This is already in planning with the neighboring community, explained traffic officer Welf Probst (Free Voters), who would like more such local connections and who criticized, among other things,that the working group and the General German Bicycle Club sometimes made demands that could hardly be implemented. During winter maintenance on the main bike routes, Probst asked "urgently" not to use the proposed road salt.
Kocheler Straße at UKM: Bus stop will be moved to the east
A construction project that, in the opinion of Mayor Rolf Beuting (ÖDP / Bürgerforum), will ensure “more safety and comfort” for cyclists, was unanimously approved by the committee: a gap on the Murnau-Kochel cycle path near the confluence with the accident clinic. Currently, you have to switch to the busy Kocheler Straße over a length of around 120 meters. Cyclists from the direction of Kochel have to cross this twice. In the course of the project, in order to defuse the situation, the community is closing the single-lane right-turn from Kocheler into Prof.-Küntscher-Straße, on which many motorists are on their way to the pedestrianized area of the clinic. The bus stop, which is also used by UKM patients, will be moved to the east and will be barrier-free, a continuous one, at least 2,50 meter wide footpath and bike path are to come. And: The entire area will be made barrier-free. The estimated costs amount to 225,000 euros, for up to 75 percent grants could flow through a special program. "We will not build without funding," said Beuting. Offices and bodies involved approved the planning, it said.
Probst finds it “very welcome” to continue this cycle path.
In his opinion, safety benefits when the right turn is omitted.
Among other things, he recommended removing the vegetation on the wedge-shaped area at this bypass in order to improve the overview for everyone, and to restore the pavement of the cycle path between UKM and Jahnweg to an impeccable condition.
This project also has to be approved by the local council.