From where?

To where?

Why?

Created: 05/06/2022, 07:02

By: Peter Schiebel

No traffic control, but a traffic survey: Just like here on Landsberger Strasse just before the Oberpfaffenhofen motorway junction, motorists were asked about their routes at a total of eight points in Gilching this week.

© Andrea Jaksch

Extensive traffic surveys began in Gilching this week.

They will be continued in two weeks and are intended to provide the data on the basis of which the mobility concept is to be created.

Gilching

– “Where are you from?

Where do you want to go?

And what is the purpose of the drive?” Hundreds of motorists in Gilching were asked these three questions this week.

The traffic surveys, the data from which should form the basis for the mobility concept, began on Tuesday.

According to the wishes of the administration and the municipal council, the concept should in turn contain concrete ideas and measures on how traffic in Gilching should be managed in the future.

"The focus of the action plan is to improve the quality of life for the citizens of the community," says the community website.

The focus is on promoting pedestrian, bicycle and local public transport, above all, but not only in the town center around Römerstraße.

"In order to be able to develop things, we need reliable data," explains Mayor Manfred Walter when asked by Starnberger Merkur.

So interrogators were out and about on the access and arterial roads in the community - always accompanied and secured by police officers.

The lanes were narrowed with traffic cones, speed limits and overtaking bans were imposed.

The aim was and is to interview as many drivers as possible.

The police officers were only instructed to wave vehicles through if the tailback was too long.

On Tuesday, the surveys took place on Münchener Strasse at the end of town, on Römerstein at the Autobahn roundabout and in St. Gilgen.

On Wednesday it was the turn of Brucker Strasse at the end of town, Talhofstrasse just before the western bypass and Weßlinger Strasse at the junction with the roundabout.

On Thursday, the interrogators were on Landsberger Strasse just before the Oberpfaffenhofen junction and on Römerstrasse in the direction of Gut Hüll.

Counting and questioning took place between 6.30 a.m. and 9.30 a.m. and between 11.30 a.m. and 1.30 p.m.

The entire procedure will be repeated in two weeks – in the same places, but then between 3:30 p.m. and 6:30 p.m.

Everything has gone smoothly so far, Gilching's mobility officer Sofiia Vernydub reported on Thursday.

She was not aware of any complaints.

The planning company Stadt-Land-Verkehr (PLSV) commissioned by the municipality should process the data collected by the company Schuhco from Germeringen and then present it to the municipal council, explains Manfred Walter.

In addition, PLSV is to develop initial proposals as to what should change in the traffic in Gilching in the future.

"Only then will the municipal council make decisions again," says the mayor, who expects the topic to come up in the committees after the summer holidays.