Tempo 30 in the queue: Penzberg says "Jein" - Grüner advertises: "I drive 35 all the time"

Created: 01/28/2022, 12:02 p.m

By: Wolfgang Schörner

Drive slowly: A speed limit of 30 km/h already applies on most roads in Penzberg, here a 30 km/h zone (right before left also applies there) on Sigmundstraße.

© Wolfgang Schörner

For the time being, there will be no nationwide 30 km/h speed limit in Penzberg.

A clear city council majority has rejected a motion by the Greens parliamentary group to aim for 30 km/h in town and 40 km/h in exceptional cases.

The matter is not completely off the table: the city council wants to deal with it again as part of the mobility concept.

Penzberg – The Tempo 30 push comes from last summer.

At that time, the Greens had submitted their application to City Hall.

It proposes aiming for a speed limit of 30 “in the entire city area”.

For road sections where this limit should not apply, the Greens advocate a speed limit of 40. This week, the city council dealt with the proposal.

After a long discussion, however, there was no majority.

In the end, only the Greens and the PM faction voted for it.

However, everyone said that a speed limit could be included in the mobility concept that the city has been working on for many months.

Green City Council Member: "I'm constantly driving 35 km/h"

John-Christian Eilert (Greens) had promoted Tempo 30 in the meeting. He emphasized that the application was about “aiming for” 30 kilometers per hour as the base speed. At the moment, implementation is not legally possible, but one should set this goal, he said. In Eilert's view, there is only one reason to be against 30 km/h, and that is simply to want to drive faster. More safety, less noise, fewer pollutants and a higher quality of stay speak for the limit, he said.

Eilert himself revealed himself as a slow driver in the city area.

"I'm constantly driving 35 km/h, which some of you may have already experienced," he said.

And yet he usually doesn't need any longer.

Penzberg, Eilert added, would not be a pioneer with 30 km/h either.

The only question is whether you want to lag behind.

His parliamentary colleague Kerstin Engel said that it was in line with the spirit of the times to no longer focus on the car.

According to the mayor, 30 is already in force on many routes in Penzberg

Mayor Stefan Korpan (CSU) explained that in Penzberg, a speed limit of 30 already applies on many routes.

Other streets are Tempo 30 zones, where right-before-left is also mandatory, and traffic-calmed areas where walking speed applies.

"It doesn't look that bad at 30 km/h," he said.

CSU faction leader Maria Probst ("Everywhere it makes sense, there is already a 30 km/h speed") reminded that according to the former head of the regulatory office, Peter Holzmann, 80 percent of the streets are already limited to 30 km/h.

Holzmann's successor, Joachim Bodendieck, explained that the authorities had to be involved in this matter and that law and order had to be observed.

He pleads for a “holistic view”: Tempo 30 should be dealt with as part of the mobility concept – on which everyone was able to agree.

City council says "Jein": The topic should be taken up as part of the mobility concept

Wolfgang Sacher (BfP) said in the debate that there are not many streets where the speed limit is 50 anyway.

And there, for example on Bahnhofstrasse, it is often not possible to drive that fast.

But he himself would think it would be good if 30 applied to him on Sindelsdorfer Strasse.

Jack Eberl (FLP) said his faction was not fundamentally against a limit.

The reduction in the risk of accidents speak for it.

But he doubted there would be less noise.

He also warned that 30 km/h would make the main roads less attractive, which could shift traffic to short cuts, especially at night.

Regina Bartusch (SPD) said that her parliamentary group is concerned about 30 km/h in front of daycare centers, retirement homes and schools, but that the topic should be discussed as part of the mobility concept.

Christian Abt (CSU) advocated 30 km/h as a “contemporary concept”.

At the moment, however, he does not want to agree either.

However, he will campaign for this as part of the mobility concept.

Aleksandar Trifunovic (CSU) also raised the question of whether structural changes are required for Tempo 30.

Which did not rule out the head of the regulatory office Bodendieck.

You then have to look at junctions and crossings.