B472 near Miesbach: Residents want more pressure for Tempo 60

Created: 03/25/2022, 16:00

By: Sebastian Grauvogl

Don't slow down speeders: Tempo 80 currently applies on the B 472 near Miesbach-Schweinthal. Residents have been demanding a reduction to 60 kilometers per hour for a long time.

© Thomas Plettenberg

More than 100 residents have signed for a lowering of the speed limit from 80 to 60 on the B472 near Miesbach.

But the city is still waiting for a response from the district office.

Miesbach

– Michael Lechner's uneasy feeling about the main road on his doorstep is no coincidence.

The FWG city councilor from Miesbach has already experienced two accidents on the B472.

Once by tractor, once by car.

The latter could have ended really badly, Lechner recalls.

"Without a headrest I wouldn't be among the living anymore."

Even if all this was several years ago: Lechner is convinced that the dangers in the section between Schweinthal and Wachlehen have not decreased with increasing traffic.

He has therefore been calling for the speed limit to be lowered from the current 80 to 60 kilometers per hour for a long time.

The fact that he is not alone in this was documented by the FWG city council last summer with a collection of signatures.

More than 100 citizens put their name on it.

The building committee passed a resolution to slow down the cars.

Still no statement from the district office

At the most recent meeting, Mayor Gerhard Braunmiller (CSU) gave a brief status report on the subject.

But he couldn't announce much new.

Due to a "personnel restructuring", the lower road traffic authority at the district office has not yet been able to make any statement on the feasibility of the desired reduction in the speed limit.

Also read: City demands Tempo 60 on B472

Franz Mayer (CSU) did not want to be fobbed off with it.

He suggested handing over the list of signatures to the authority at a public meeting in order to “make the urgency clear” and “to put pressure on”.

Currently, drivers would not even keep to the prescribed 80 km/h, Mayer said and asked whether radar controls could be carried out.

Building authority manager Lutz Breitwieser explained that, according to the police, this could only be done in this section in the form of a selective laser measurement.

They have already done that.

"But obviously not much came out."

Noise is also a reason for Tempo 60

Lechner, who is not on the building committee himself, welcomes his colleagues' follow-up questions.

"The issue is still acute." In view of the excessive speed of many motorists, it is becoming increasingly difficult to turn off one of the many junctions onto the federal highway without risking an accident.

Not to mention the noise pollution, Lechner emphasizes, remembering a sunny Sunday in May last year.

At the beginning of the motorcycling season, whole groups of bikers felt like they were chasing down the main road every ten minutes.

"The engine noise was brutal." Another key experience that connects Lechner with the main road on his doorstep.  

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