A controversial ongoing topic, the expansion of Dietersheimer Isarstrasse, came back on the agenda of the Echinger Council.
Conclusion: Nothing will change before 2023.
Dietersheim / Eching
- The Echingen municipal council said goodbye to a resolution from the previous year, which provided for a separate sidewalk and cycle path next to the narrow street with old trees to increase the traffic safety of pedestrians and cyclists.
Instead, everything stays as it is for the time being.
One of two possible access roads for the new south-east building area
As a reminder: Nine years ago, to optimize the flow of traffic, a full expansion from 3.40 to 5.50 meters was envisaged in order to enable regular oncoming traffic in Isarstrasse. The community had acquired the necessary reason for this. In the future, Isarstrasse will be one of two possible access roads into the new south-east “Am Mühlenweg” building area. The alternative, generously designed second access to the new housing estate is planned behind the Aral petrol station on the south-eastern outskirts towards Garching.
In June 2020, half a dozen proposals for expanding Isarstrasse were up for discussion in the building committee.
The committee decided on a variant that provided for a separation of motorized and non-motorized traffic, in which the old trees should be preserved and the roadway should not be widened.
An in-depth analysis for the implementation of the proposed footpath and bike path has meanwhile shown that the roots of the ten ash trees and one oak, which are estimated to be around 100 years old, would have to be cut so drastically that there would be no guarantee that the subsoil would be prepared. that the perfectly healthy trees would survive this intervention.
Haußmann: Pedestrians and cyclists urgently need additional safety measures
So what to do
There were again controversial views on this.
The CSU councilors Georg Bartl, Bernhard Wallner and Heike Krauss did not find tree protection so crucial compared to the advantages of a full expansion for residents, farmers and future residents in the southwest.
Especially since, according to Bartl, the life expectancy of old trees is a factor of uncertainty.
Dietersheim councilor Lena Haußmann (Greens) also warned that pedestrians and cyclists urgently need additional safety measures.
Mayor Sebastian Thaler, himself a resident of Isarstrasse, drew attention to the fact that there would be two more pedestrian connections between the main street and the new building area, one directly at the level of the pedestrian traffic lights.
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For reasons of tree protection, the building administration recommended that all traffic in Isarstrasse “be observed for the time being and that a decision be made about further expansion according to the future actual traffic volume”.
This proposal found a clear majority in the Council.
At the request of Christoph Gürtner (FW), 2023 was set as the date to review the traffic development.