Peitinger Blitzer balance sheet: The problem child is Meierstraße

Created: 02/14/2022, 10:00 am

By: Christopher Peters

In percentage terms, the most speeders fell into the speed trap in 2021 on Meierstraße, Kapellenstraße and Bergwerkstraße.

Graphic: Peters Through the village at over 90 km/h © Peters

The number of speed offenders caught in Peiting has risen significantly in the past year.

This emerges from the statistics of the municipal services association Oberland.

A problem child is Meierstraße, where more than every tenth vehicle checked was driving too fast.

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– Since the right of way in the center of Peiting was changed, traffic on Meierstraße has increased significantly.

Not only do local residents keep criticizing this, there are also complaints that many drivers too often do not keep to the applicable speed limit of 30 kilometers per hour.

As early as 2019, the municipality had speed measurements carried out for a week.

The then Mayor Michael Asam found the result so alarming that he announced increased controls.

The latest statistics from the Oberland Municipal Services Association, which carries out speed checks in town on behalf of the market, show how necessary these are.

4869 vehicles measured in Meierstrasse

Employees of the special-purpose association set up their measuring device on Meierstraße no less than seven times.

Of the 4,869 vehicles checked, 494 drove faster than allowed, which corresponds to a complaint rate of 10.1 percent.

Meierstrasse thus secured second place in the statistics last year, only topped by Kapellenstrasse.

In the majority of violations (344), the speed offenders on Meierstraße had between six and ten km/h too much on the speedometer, in 17 cases the drivers who were caught were driving between 46 and 50 km/h and thus clearly too fast.

"It shows that it is right to have more controls here," says Managing Director Stefan Kort.

Too fast on Bergwerkstrasse too

More controls, which seem necessary again when looking at the numbers in Kapellenstraße.

In the past, she had regularly been the community's problem child when it came to speed offenders.

The only measurement campaign in the past year showed why.

A good 17 percent of the 64 vehicles checked were traveling too fast.

For comparison: in 2020 the rate was still ten percent.

Motorists were also in a particular hurry on Bergwerkstraße, where fewer road users were checked than in the previous year (492) but more speed violations were found (41).

The complaint rate rose from 4.9 to 8.3 percent, which means third place in the statistics.

Special measurement at Füssener Straße

While the number of speed offenders also increased in Birkland and on Münchener Strasse compared to 2020, the complaint rates on Angermoosstrasse and in Kurzenried fell.

Flashes were also used in Bahnhofstrasse in 2021.

However, she was not a speed focus.

Only one percent of the controlled drivers drove there faster than allowed.

There was a special feature last year on Füssener Straße.

There, the special purpose association not only carried out measurements by the hour, but also monitored traffic around the clock for five weeks with the speed camera trailer.

Almost 120,000 vehicles were checked during this period, only 659 of which were speeding.

However, four of them were in a particular hurry.

Instead of the permitted 50 km/h, they raced through the village at over 90 km/h.

Fortunately, driving so fast is the exception, emphasizes Kort.

The majority of violations take place in the range of up to ten km/h.

No rubbish made

The employees of the special purpose association did not only keep an eye on the flowing traffic in the past year.

Her tasks also included distributing tickets to illegal parkers in the municipal area.

192 monitoring hours came together.

The municipality did not rubbish with the controls: the costs for the services of the special purpose association far exceeded the income from the fine imposed.

Financially, the bottom line for the market was a minus of 9335 euros - significantly more than last year (2980 euros).

Hidden measurements reveal true values.

According to Mayor Peter Ostenrieder, another important instrument for traffic monitoring are the so-called covert measurements using pure recording systems that are not noticed by the driver and are certified by the Federal Roads Office.

"Of course, they provide much more realistic data than, for example, speed camera statistics," says Ostenrieder.

"Especially when there are many residents complaining about speeding on a certain street, we first verify this subjective perception using these hidden measurements.

This has the advantage that we can possibly determine new locations for future speed camera measurements, or we can prove that the actual speed may not be as high as the perceived speed."

With 112 things on the Schönriedlstraße

An example of this can be seen on Schönriedlstrasse, where the speed limit is 50: the complaints had increased there, so that a corresponding hidden measurement was carried out over a whole week last year.

12,608 vehicles were counted, of which 702 exceeded the speed limit by more than 8 km/h.

One vehicle was even recorded with a top speed of 112 km/h, two others were faster than 100 km/h.

The majority (615 vehicles) was between 6 and 15 km/h too fast.

"For us, this is a clear indication that a speed camera should also be expected in Schönriedlstraße in the future," says Ostenrieder.

"If the complaint rate is around 5.6%, we'll definitely check it out."

Mayor's Appeal

Another example where there are often complaints is the Bahnhofstrasse between the blue savings bank and the roundabout.

Such a measurement was also arranged there after investors increasingly criticized the high speeds.

36,962 vehicles were recorded in seven days, 94 of which were driving faster than 50 km/h.

The highest recorded speed was 145 km/h, a total of 15 vehicles had more than 100 km/h on the speedometer, and there too the majority (67 vehicles) exceeded it by between 6 and 15 km/h.

Fortunately, the complaint rate was only 0.25%.

“I can only appeal to all road users to drive sensibly.

Especially on the main connecting roads such as the Bahnhofstraße or the former federal roads, we cannot simply speed up to 30 km/h, because the road traffic authorities always have to order this in consultation with the police.”

Special measurement at Schongauer Straße

A particularly interesting measurement took place last June on Schongauer Strasse near Schloßbergstrasse: During this period, the bypass road was closed and all traffic flowed through Schongau and Peiting.

During the period in question, 94,294 vehicles were recorded, of which around 6% were objected to.

The highest speed recorded there was 139 km/h, and a total of 36 drivers exceeded 100 km/h – mind you at a point where 50 km/h is allowed.

About 5,000 of the 5,700 vehicles complained about were between 6 and 15 km/h too fast.

It probably doesn't work without measurements and punishment

"In the 30s of Peiting, the rate of complaints is naturally higher, which is also reflected in the numbers," says Ostenrieder.

Example Hofener Straße in Birkland in the area of ​​a 30s area: There, 499 out of 1129 measured vehicles were objected to.

This corresponds to a rate of 41%.

The fastest measured speed was 87 km/h, the majority of the complaints were between 6 and 15 km/h too fast.

A similar picture in the area of ​​the built-up Wanderhofstraße in Peiting: .

The front runner shot through the residential area at 118 km/h, but all other of the 727 exceedances were between 6 and 30 km/h.

The average speed of all 3,804 vehicles measured over six days was 29.23 km/h, below the required 30 km/h, which is generally pleasing.

"You can see what an important decision-making aid such covert long-term measurements are for local speed enforcement," says Ostenrieder.

"All in all, we have noticeably increased the speed camera times in the village over the past two years, because regulations only make sense if they are also requested and punished accordingly."

The traffic concept in Peiting has so far provided for the through arteries in the town to be guaranteed at 50 km/h for the inflow and outflow, and to create as many 30 km/h zones as possible in residential areas if possible and with the permission of the relevant authorities.

"So far it has worked quite well, but we will tend to expand the controls based on the new findings from the numerous and extensive control measurements," says the head of the town hall, Peter Ostenrieder.

"Unfortunately, there is obviously no other way."