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Bavaria's most dangerous sidewalk? Children run here too - but there is no speed limit

2022-01-21T15:07:48.154Z


Bavaria's most dangerous sidewalk? Children run here too - but there is no speed limit Created: 01/21/2022, 16:00 By: Jennifer Battaglia Road users on State Road 2064 drive past the sidewalk at high speed. A speed limit at this point is not so easy to enforce due to the current legal situation. © Jennifer Battaglia Speeding past a sidewalk at up to 100 km/h? This happens regularly in front of


Bavaria's most dangerous sidewalk?

Children run here too - but there is no speed limit

Created: 01/21/2022, 16:00

By: Jennifer Battaglia

Road users on State Road 2064 drive past the sidewalk at high speed.

A speed limit at this point is not so easy to enforce due to the current legal situation.

© Jennifer Battaglia

Speeding past a sidewalk at up to 100 km/h?

This happens regularly in front of the town sign of the municipality of Seeshaupt on Lake Starnberg.

Many citizens are therefore concerned and local residents complain not only about the dangerous situation but also about the traffic noise - but none of this seems to be enough for a speed limit.

Seeshaupt

- "The cars rush past me at 100 km/h when I walk my dog ​​every day," said Bernd Habich at the last Seeshaupt municipal council meeting. "It can't be somewhere," said the deputy mayor. "I don't know of any other street where there's something like that."

What is meant is state road 2064. Between the intersection with Seeseitener Straße and the town sign of Seeshaupt, a sidewalk runs for a distance of around 400 meters, on which road users race past pedestrians at up to 100 km/h.

There is no sign with a speed limit.

"Children use the sidewalk and sometimes even with wheels," Habich said, addressing the municipal councils.

In summer, many pedestrians would also cross the state road to get directly to the lake via Seeseitener Straße.

A speed limit is therefore urgently needed.

According to the authorities, there is no specific risk situation

The responsible traffic authority sees it differently.

According to the transport department of the district office, a speed limit is not necessary at this point.

In consultation with the Penzberg police and the state building authority, there is no specific risk situation here and there would also be no risk of accidents going beyond the normal level.

Although there have been traffic accidents at the intersection with Seeseitener Straße - according to information from the State Building Authority there have been six since 2015 - at least half of them can be attributed to disregarding the stop sign there.

"Speed ​​is not the cause of the accident," says Andreas Lenker from the State Building Authority.

There are no preventive traffic restrictions

But wouldn't it make sense to reduce speed as a precaution before an accident involving pedestrians occurs?

Wolfgang Mini, head of the transport department at the district office, replies: “According to the law, it is not possible to order traffic restrictions for purely preventive reasons.” traffic regulations.

It states that road users must behave in such a way that nobody is harmed or endangered.

"That's why you're not allowed to drive past pedestrians at 100 km/h," says Mini.

Although individual vehicles would do this in Seeshaupt, a measurement of the average speed for the section mentioned resulted in a value of only around 78 km/h.

"We can't cover everything"

When asked whether he was aware of similar constellations, i.e. sidewalks on busy roads, outside of town and without a speed limit sign, Mini said no.

"Maybe not in our district," he says.

"But there certainly are." According to him, the assessment of a dangerous situation is always subjective.

"I understand that," he says.

"But I ask for your understanding.

We cannot insure everything.”

Traffic noise unbearable for local residents

The reason for the exchange in the municipal council was the response of the traffic authority to a letter from the residents living next to the state road. Resident Katharina Fischer wrote a letter to Mayor Fritz Egold last summer, demanding a speed limit of 60 km/h. The letter was accompanied by a list of signatures from around 40 other residents. Fischer described that the disruption caused by the traffic noise had become extreme and unbearable, and some residents were already complaining of sleep disturbances and nervousness. Your own four walls should actually be a place of retreat. "Instead, on excursion days, you are forced to get in your car and drive away to find some rest," says Fischer.Especially during the summer months, the community on Lake Starnberg is a popular destination that attracts many visitors.

Egold forwarded the residents' concerns to the responsible traffic authority at the district office, but the answer was negative: "Restrictions to protect the population from noise immissions according to the road traffic regulations require a corresponding noise calculation or the implementation of a noise action plan." When asked, Wolfgang Mini shared with the fact that even after a noise calculation with corresponding values, speed limit signs would not necessarily be put up, but other measures, such as changing the road surface or erecting a sound barrier, would have priority.

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Source: merkur

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