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At a snail's pace to the cycle expressway in the north of Munich

2021-12-21T06:06:24.996Z


At a snail's pace to the cycle expressway in the north of Munich Created: 12/21/2021, 07:02 AM From: Charlotte Borst Cyclists have to brake hard before every bend, so the joy is only limited. Markus Büchler (Greens), District Assembly and Member of Parliament © mm The district council has decided on its section for the cycle motorway from Munich main station to Garching research center. The ba


At a snail's pace to the cycle expressway in the north of Munich

Created: 12/21/2021, 07:02 AM

From: Charlotte Borst

Cyclists have to brake hard before every bend, so the joy is only limited.

Markus Büchler (Greens), District Assembly and Member of Parliament © mm

The district council has decided on its section for the cycle motorway from Munich main station to Garching research center.

The basis for the further work phases has finally been defined.

The only thing missing is the junction to Unterschleißheim.

The goal: a four-meter-wide cycle highway on which commuters in particular can travel in both directions at speeds of 25 to 30 km / h. And when they do have to cross a traffic light, the cyclists shouldn't wait long for the green light, but should have priority over the car traffic. That should finally work in the north: It starts at the main train station, across Leopoldstrasse to the north, along Ingolstädter Landstrasse (B13). At the level of the Helmholtz Center, the Free State takes over the property development for four kilometers to Hochbrück. Then the district is responsible for eight kilometers up to the Garching research center and for the branch to Unterschleißheim.

For the section to Garching, the district will have to drill more thick boards: With land acquisition, species protection and drainage, major tasks are pending before the route is approved.

Until then, there will probably be more years in the country.

The rapid cycle connection was announced as a pilot project in 2015.

The expectations were great.

Potential analyzes, feasibility studies and benefit-cost analyzes followed.

At the end of November, after six years, the search for alternatives to the research center was finally over.

The Planegger engineering office Wipflerplan has been on board for a year and is now entrusted with the next steps.

It takes far too long, criticize many politicians

District politicians in the district council's mobility committee also criticized the fact that all of this takes far too long. “Not everything went smoothly. But it is also the first high-speed cycle path across Bavaria, ”explained Jens Diehr, who is in charge of the project in the district office. In the meantime, the cooperation between the Free State, the state capital and the district is working very well, he said.

For district councilor Markus Büchler, who is also a traffic expert for the Greens in the state parliament, it was the state capital that brought momentum to the project because, after the cycling decision in July 2019, it accepted the challenge of expanding the cycling infrastructure.

He misses this political will in the Free State.

In the mobility committee, he criticized the fact that the Free State is sticking to the four-lane expansion of the B471.

That is why cyclists in Hochbrück have to take detours: “There was no space for cyclists on the B471 in Hochbrück, because more space is needed for drivers.” High-speed cycle paths should provide an alternative to driving for commuters.

Role models in other federal states

In order for the traffic turnaround to progress faster, Büchler demands: The Free State should make cycle superhighways a top priority and - similar to the state roads - build them itself.

"Then it goes faster, as North Rhine-Westphalia and Baden-Württemberg are showing." The cycle highways are already a reality there.

On the route to the TU research campus, Büchler complained that it was “more of a Garching bypass” because it leads around workplaces and residential areas, and also in a zigzag: “Cyclists have to brake hard before every bend, so the joy is only limited. "But at least," better than nothing. "

The Bavarian Transport Minister Kerstin Schreyer (CSU), who is also a member of the district council, rejects the bundling of responsibilities with the Free State.

A shift in the construction load would not bring any advantages in terms of time, explains a spokeswoman for the Ministry of Transport and defends the Bavarian pilot project.

She does not want to speak of delays: "The project is on schedule in terms of its size, the various affected areas and the complex boundary conditions."

Mayor is waiting for mail from the building department

The mayors of Garching and Unterschleißheim, Dietmar Gruchmann (SPD) and Christoph Böck (SPD) see it differently. They are convinced that the route search would have been completed more quickly with the early involvement of the municipalities. "This way, the variants would have been narrowed down earlier and we could have saved a lot of time," criticized Böck in the Committee on Mobility.

Meanwhile, the mayor of Unterschleißheim is still waiting for mail from the Freising State Building Authority: the preliminary planning of how the junction to Unterschleißheim could look like.

When asked, Böck said that it was his greatest wish to the Christ Child, “that I will finally be able to have a design plan in my hands soon.” He adds, slightly smugly: “And I believe in the Christ Child, hopefully also the Freising State Building Authority!” Unfortunately, the idea of ​​the Christ Child only came to him this year, "otherwise it might not have taken seven years since 2015."

Source: merkur

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