The time for speedy traffic shots is over
Created: 03/15/2022, 19:59
By: Stefanie Zipfer
Abrupt end: one-way street regulation in the old town.
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The city council's environment and traffic committee bowed to the administrative court's verdict and lifted the one-way rule through the old town.
The trial phase of the one-way regulation in the old town has only existed since October
Dachau
– When the complaint that jeweler Ludwig Stöckl or his legal adviser had filed against the one-way street through the old town of Dachau landed on lawyer Kerstin Funk's desk about three months ago, she had not suspected anything good.
The Munich lawyer, who represents the city in this case, "summarily checked the chances of success" and found that things could get tight for the measure, which the city council decided last summer with a large majority and in October - on a trial basis for one year - had introduced.
And as Funk reported to the environment and transport committee on Tuesday, the administrative court of the city and its one-way street actually gave a rejection in clear words.
"It just needs a qualified dangerous situation," explained Funk in the committee.
The city simply did not prove this.
There was neither a traffic census that could have been used to justify the danger to schoolchildren or noise pollution for local residents, nor had the accidents in recent years been adequately evaluated.
She therefore urged councilors to follow the court and overturn the order.
Environment officer does not want to put up with it
Environmental officer Thomas Kress (Greens) did not want to put up with it.
There is nothing left for the city other than a one-way street "to get through traffic out of the city".
He therefore requested that the ruling of the administrative court not be implemented.
Apart from Jasmin Lang (Greens) and Sophia Beljung (The Party), nobody wanted to follow him.
As Mayor Florian Hartmann explained, a non-reaction from the city to the request of the administrative court would not help.
Then the end of the one-way street will be completed by judgment.
In the end, according to Hartmann, "we always have the same problem: we need a dangerous situation."
While Volker C. Koch (SPD) was "personally quite frustrated" by the opinion of the Munich judges and complained that "singular interests" of the tradespeople were "placed above the protection of the general public", Peter Gampenrieder (ÜB) preferred to "go forward watch".
According to Gampenrieder, the time for quick shots is now over.
"The administration has to work more carefully if we plan something like this!"
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Peter Strauch (CSU) also argued in this direction and was self-critical.
The old town is “the favorite place of the vast majority of Dachau residents.
In the future, we can no longer shoot decisions that have such a big impact from the hip."
Unlike Koch and mayor, he even explicitly agreed with the administrative court: He thinks it is “correct” to put explicit goals before a measure.
It's no longer possible to just try it out and see what happens."
Mayor Hartmann meanwhile warned: Measures such as a one-way street regulation would probably only take place with "considerably" more time and money in the future.
Otherwise, he emphasized again that, firstly, there was a "broad political consensus" for the measure, secondly, the residents of the old town in particular had viewed the one-way street regulation positively and thirdly, the "perceived truth" had occurred: the one-way street "we have a reduction of traffic detected"!
Lawyer gives the committee hope
Attorney Funk gave the committee hope for future plans.
"With the appropriate preparatory work" there are "definitely possibilities to tackle the topic again".
City councilor Gampenrieder also found that the quality of stay for the residents and the safety of the school children in the old town could be improved.
Appropriate steps would only have to be taken "taking into account the judicial instructions" and - above all - "take place with a broad consensus"!
In view of the fact that the one-way regulation on Brucker Straße was not part of the proceedings before the administrative court, but was nevertheless organizationally linked to the one-way trial phase in the old town, the committee also lifted it yesterday.
The police, the mayor explained, had always advised against "an isolated one-way street on Brucker Strasse", otherwise the traffic load on Burgfriedenstrasse would be too great.
By ending this one-way street as well, according to Hartmann, one has “at least legal certainty”.
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