Karlsfeld - The intersection Hochstraße / Münchner Straße (B 304) in Karlsfeld is a problem.
Especially for pedestrians and cyclists there are “critical and dangerous points”, as SPD councilor Franz Trinkl put it in an application.
The intersection must therefore be planned over, the SPD demanded in the application.
If it were that easy. Because the B 304 is - as the name suggests - a federal highway. The state building authority in Freising is responsible for planning and expanding the intersection, not the municipality. And there in Freising the mills grind extremely slowly - mainly because of a lack of staff - as several local councils confirmed from experience on Wednesday evening when the SPD application was dealt with in the transport committee.
The intersection on the extremely busy Münchner Strasse is no longer designed for "pedestrian and bicycle traffic that crosses today," wrote Trinkl in the application. The construction of the large supermarkets there and the many people who moved to the district west of the railway would have increased the traffic considerably. A particular problem: The footprints for pedestrians and cyclists waiting at the traffic lights are far too small.
But such problems are not exactly on position one of the Freising priority list, observed Mayor Stefan Kolbe: "The intention of the state building authority is the flowing traffic." The building authority should actually expand all crossings on Münchner Straße and make them barrier-free, but the building authority wants to do away with pedestrian crossings. "
Wanka named another high hurdle: expensive land acquisition.
An expansion there is therefore “really cost-effective”.
Mayor Kolbe also fears that negotiations with the affected community of owners will have little chance of success.
When expanding the intersection, a third person would also have to be on board: the district is the responsible road traffic authority and also the public transport operator, and it in turn pursues its own interests.
Kolbe on the conversations so far: "We're going in circles!"
