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Soon green wave for the city bus? Weilheim plans "public transport acceleration"

2022-05-18T10:10:13.249Z


Soon green wave for the city bus? Weilheim plans "public transport acceleration" Created: 05/18/2022, 12:00 p.m By: Magnus Reitinger Green light when the city bus comes: This is planned at traffic lights on Unteren Graben and on Münchener Straße. © Gronau When the city bus comes, the traffic light turns green: This could soon become reality at the Unteren Graben in Weilheim. A "public transpor


Soon green wave for the city bus?

Weilheim plans "public transport acceleration"

Created: 05/18/2022, 12:00 p.m

By: Magnus Reitinger

Green light when the city bus comes: This is planned at traffic lights on Unteren Graben and on Münchener Straße.

© Gronau

When the city bus comes, the traffic light turns green: This could soon become reality at the Unteren Graben in Weilheim.

A "public transport acceleration" is to be set up there for two traffic lights.

Weilheim – A Weilheim city bus currently rolls across the Unteren Graben eight times an hour.

And when a fifth line is introduced as a test in October, which also connects Marnbach, the Trifthof and Achalaich (we reported), then there will be even more buses in this area.

The problem with this: At peak times, the section below the city library in particular, between the two traffic lights, is regularly "blocked".

Peter Müller, CEO of Stadtwerke Weilheim, which has been operating the city bus since the beginning of the year, speaks of a "bottleneck" that leads to delays and makes it difficult to keep to the timetable.

The two traffic lights have not yet been coordinated

A "public transport acceleration" could bring improvements here: The traffic lights at the corner of Münchener Straße/Unterer Graben and at the Unterer Graben/Lohgasse intersection - whose switching times have not yet been coordinated - are to be upgraded so that the city bus will be practical there in the future has green wave.

For the "urban traffic light" at Lohgasse, the traffic committee of the city council decided this unanimously on Monday.

With regard to the traffic light at the Rid department store, where state roads meet, the decision could be made this week in a discussion with the responsible state building authority.

The latter had a comprehensive report on the subject prepared in April.

And this is where the "Planning Office for Traffic Technology Essen" comes to the conclusion: Such a public transport acceleration at this junction "definitely makes sense and, as the performance calculations show, can also be implemented without any problems".

For this, it is said, both traffic lights must be included.

The public utilities bear the costs themselves

The whole thing should work like this: When approaching one of the two traffic lights, the city buses send out signals via Bluetooth, radio or GPS (the system has yet to be decided) which switches the bus and the vehicles in front of it to green .

In order to rule out driver errors, this should be done as automatically as possible, emphasizes Müller.

According to him, the costs for the necessary technical upgrade of the traffic lights and “two cuts in the road” are “just under five figures” and are borne by the municipal utilities themselves.

Money from the "greenhouse gas emission quota system" is still available for this this year, which gives the municipal company 12,000 euros per bus and year.

Müller hopes that the facility will be completed this year or by early 2023 at the latest.

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City councilors on the Transport Committee were happy to approve the project.

"That helps the city bus a lot, and no one has a disadvantage from it," said Klaus Gast (CSU).

Manuel Neulinger (Greens), the city council's traffic officer, spoke of a "very interesting idea that should be implemented".

He asked whether the system would also make sense at other traffic lights in the city.

Müller named the crossing Lohgasse/Wessobrunner Straße/Schützenstraße;

However, there are no concrete plans here.

Incidentally, this type of public transport acceleration is commonplace in large cities, according to the Stadtwerke boss, in Munich there are “at least 100 traffic lights with priority switching”.

In the region, Garmisch-Partenkirchen is also currently dealing with it.

According to the census, the traffic decreased

In the report by the State Building Authority for Weilheim, some councilors noticed that, according to the traffic census at the end of March 2022, significantly fewer vehicles were driving on Münchener Straße and Unterer Graben than in 2016. For Section Head Peter Reichert, this is “still due to Corona”.

In the forecasts for 2030, the report assumes strong increases.

According to Reichert, the "maximum" was expected "to prove that it works".

Source: merkur

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