Driving more slowly in the city: Olching joins the alliance

Created: 05/12/2022, 11:08 am

By: Kathrin Böhmer

Declaration of membership: Mayor Magg (left) handed over the letter to Mayor Dienberg.

© City of Olching

Olching is the 150th city in Germany to have joined the alliance “Cities worth living through adapted speed”.

Olching – This emerges from a press release from the town hall.

The core of the initiative is therefore to increase safety, consideration and attractiveness in the cities by giving the municipalities more freedom to decide on local speed limits.

The suggestion came from the third mayor Ingrid Jaschke (Greens).

City Hall Chief Andreas Magg (SPD) and Transport Officer Hans Bieniek (CSU) have now handed over the letter of accession to Leipzig Mayor for Urban Development and Head of the City Day Initiative, Thomas Dienberg, during the meeting of the Construction and Transport Committee of the German City Day.

Mayor Magg has been a permanent member of this technical committee at federal level since 2020 and represents the Bavarian cities there together with seven colleagues.

(By the way: everything from the region is now also available in our regular FFB newsletter.)

It is said that lively, attractive cities need public spaces that are worth living in.

The streets and squares with their diverse functions are the face and backbone of the places.

And further: They shape the quality of life and urbanity.

They have a decisive influence on whether people enjoy living and spending time in their city, be it for culture, gastronomy or shopping.

An essential instrument for achieving this goal is situational and needs-based traffic regulation.

narrow limits

The problem, according to the Olching town hall, is that the cities and municipalities have very narrow limits when it comes to arranging traffic law matters.

In July 2021, the “Cities worth living through adapted speed” initiative, founded by the cities of Aachen, Augsburg, Freiburg, Hanover, Leipzig, Münster and Ulm, was formed.

This campaigns against the federal government so that the municipalities can decide for themselves when and where which speeds are to be ordered - in a targeted, flexible and location-based manner.

Exactly what the local people need and want – for maximum security, good cooperation and a high quality of stay.

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