The city councils agree that Hermann-Stockmann-Straße is getting crowded and getting through, especially for buses, is getting more and more difficult.
There is disagreement about the choice of means.
Dachau
- The three existing residential parking zones in the major district town - to the west and east of the train station and at the clinic - are successful: S-Bahn passengers or clinic visitors who simply parked their cars in the residential streets are now either displaced or relegated by the parking space management Payment of a sum of money - which in the long term will be quite meager - is required.
The alliance for Dachau therefore sees the residential parking zones as the means of choice to operate “together with the optimal bus connection and a functioning bike guide to the important goals of active climate protection”. Alliance spokesman Michael Eisenmann believes that “induced source traffic” arises “on the doorstep. Every additional car trip generates CO2 emissions that have to be saved in order to meet the climate targets. Every avoided car journey is active climate protection ”. For Dachau-Ost, where the alliance and the Greens had fought for another residential parking zone, this credo had already fallen on deaf ears of the city council (we reported).
Eisenmann and Co. have now dared to try again in the area of Hermann-Stockmann-, Eduard-Ziegler-, Lorenz-Scherer-, Josef-Scheidl- and Münchner Straße.
Their argument: The parking situation in this area is already "problematic", and further large residential construction projects would exacerbate the situation in the long term.
By reducing the pressure to park through a parking zone, the streets used by many children as a way to school could also be made safer - in addition to the environmental aspect.
Situation is not easy
The city councils of ÜB / FDP also see that the situation in Hermann-Stockmann-Straße is not easy. With the residents' parking zone west of the railway and the short-term parking zone on Münchner Straße, more and more drivers were looking for their parking space in and around Stockmann-Straße. Nevertheless, the ÜB / FDP see the "creeping spread" of parking management zones "critical". Much cheaper than a residential parking zone - the introduction of which, including machines and signs, would cost an estimated 366,000 euros! - there is a section-wise, restricted stopping ban on Hermann-Stockmann-Strasse and on Heideweg. Especially on the section between Prinz-Adalbert-Straße and Oskar-von-Miller-Straße, according to ÜB City Councilor Peter Gampenrieder, there is “really something to do”.
Traffic officer Volker C. Koch (SPD) admitted that it would be a "huge relaxation" for bus drivers in particular if Stockmannstrasse could be used again.
In view of the high costs that a residential parking zone would cause, he was able to win something from Gampenrieder's suggestion: “Let's make a half-way parking ban between Munich and Oskar-von Miller-Strasse.” By alternately setting up this, one can “slow down the bullet hole ".
Peter Strauch (CSU), on the other hand, was unable to gain anything from either idea, both of which “made no sense”.
Since the traffic on Hermann-Stockmann-Strasse is “extremely slowed down”, the street is “one of the safest in all of Dachau.
You can't drive fast there, and you don't want to drive fast there ”.
The proposals of the alliance and ÜB / FDP therefore did not make the road safer.
Thomas Kreß (Greens) even went so far as to say that “traffic jams are the safest traffic situation”.
By getting the traffic flowing again with half-way stopping bans, “we will soon have dead cyclists”.
Stefan Januschkowetz from the municipal public order office also pointed out that due to any stopping bans on Stockmannstrasse and Heideweg, a good 100 parking spaces would be lost.
According to Januschkowetz, the cars “will not vanish into thin air”.
Alliance withdraws proposal
In the end there was a compromise: the alliance withdrew its application for a traffic report that would be required to implement a parking zone.
Until then, the administration should document - also with photos - at which points it is particularly jammed in Dachau-Süd and how the conflict between stationary and flowing traffic in and around Hermann-Stockmann-Straße could be defused by stopping bans.
Then, according to Strauch, CSU man, “we know what we are talking about”.
And only then should a decision be made.
