Cargo bikes, e-scooters, car sharing: mobility stations take the next hurdle

Created: 05/13/2022, 10:06 am

By: Thomas Benedict

Mobility station with MVG rental bikes.

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The course has been set for new mobility concepts in the city.

Car sharing – if possible with e-cars – e-cargo bike sharing and mobility stations will soon be available in Fürstenfeldbruck.

Fürstenfeldbruck – Three items on the agenda in the Committee for the Environment, Transport and Civil Engineering (UVT) revolved around the question of how people should get around in Fürstenfeldbruck in the future.

The main goal: to create alternatives to the car.

And if you already use a car, then at least one e-vehicle from car-sharing.

This is to be achieved through a series of measures.

Change easily

On the one hand, there are the mobility stations.

These are transport hubs where local public transport (ÖPNV) and sharing offers - regardless of whether bicycle, car or e-scooter - are brought together.

Users should be able to easily switch from one mode of transport to another without using their own car.

The creation of the mobility stations has been promoted since 2018 under the leadership of the district office.

The UVT of the city of Fürstenfeldbruck, as the penultimate of ten municipalities involved, has now agreed to a corresponding special purpose agreement with the district office.

Now only Germering is missing.

The purpose agreement is necessary, among other things, in order to receive extensive funding for the project.

Up to 80 percent is possible in this way.

Twelve in one go

If everything goes well, the construction of the stations can go very quickly.

The first are to be built in the city area as early as 2023.

A total of twelve are planned in a first round.

By 2024, all of them should be realized.

Not enough, as some city councilors found.

"I miss Aich and Puch," said Martin Kellerer (CSU).

That could come in a second step, explained traffic planner Montserrat Miramontes.

At the beginning of the planning, the city had already drawn up a list of 20 possible locations where Aich and Puch were involved.

When prioritizing twelve locations, however, they fell out again.

The reason: too little passenger traffic.

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Green roofs for bicycle parking spaces?

Alexa Zierl's (ÖDP) suggestion to cover the bicycle parking spaces and then to green the roofs and equip them with photovoltaic systems was also rejected.

Representatives of the Munich transport company, on whose experience with bike rental the planners of the mobility stations rely, explained that a roof makes it difficult to locate the bikes.

That is why no such roofs are planned in Fürstenfeldbruck.

In addition to the cross-district project of mobility stations, the city is also going its own way to promote the traffic turnaround.

Another approach to this is the conversion of the official fleet to car sharing.

The vehicles are then also available to the citizens if they are not needed by the city employees.

Several members of the UVT suggested procuring as large a proportion of e-cars for the fleet as possible.

And last but not least, there should also be e-cargo bike sharing.

Four bikes are planned at two locations: one near St. Bernhard and one on the corner of Theodor-Heuss-/Konrad-Adenauer-Straße.

However, the prerequisite for this is a positive funding decision.

Traffic planner: Cargo bikes are in demand

The Brucker traffic planner Montserrat Miramontes has high hopes for the introduction of a sharing system for e-cargo bikes.

The demand is there, she explained to the members of the Committee on the Environment, Transport and Civil Engineering (UVT).

She justified her assessment with the experiences that the city, which has been renting out cargo bikes itself since September 2020, has had.

"The offer has been very well received," says Miramontes.

"What does well accepted mean?" Michael Piscitelli (CSU) wanted to know.

Since the introduction, the bikes have been borrowed almost every day, Miramontes explained.

When selecting the locations for e-cargo bike sharing, care will be taken to ensure that these are in areas where many people live.

Because in such areas the need is greatest, according to Miramontes.

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