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Schongau: Residents complain about speeders on the Alpspitzstraße – is there a one-way street regulation?

2022-05-19T10:04:00.151Z


Schongau: Residents complain about speeders on the Alpspitzstraße – is there a one-way street regulation? Created: 05/19/2022, 12:00 p.m By: Elke Robert The Alpspitzstraße in Schongau is quite narrow, the sidewalk is often used as an alternative - at too high a speed. Drivers on the road at high speed Residents hope for a quick solution © Hans-Helmut Herold The drivers in the Alpspitzstraße Sc


Schongau: Residents complain about speeders on the Alpspitzstraße – is there a one-way street regulation?

Created: 05/19/2022, 12:00 p.m

By: Elke Robert

The Alpspitzstraße in Schongau is quite narrow, the sidewalk is often used as an alternative - at too high a speed.

Drivers on the road at high speed Residents hope for a quick solution © Hans-Helmut Herold

The drivers in the Alpspitzstraße Schongau should be slowed down urgently.

The residents want that, the danger for children is too great.

The city also knows that you have to take action - but a possible one-way street regulation will first be voted on again.

Schongau – In order not to keep the many residents who had come to the latest meeting of the Schongau building committee waiting too long, Mayor Falk Sluyterman had raised the last point, “traffic-regulating measures in the Alpspitzstrasse area”, to the top of the agenda.

After the citizen's application, there was also an on-site appointment with the administration.

You have to evaluate the topic critically, whereby it is not only due to the design of the road, but also to the drivers who step on the gas there.

"In the northern Alpspitzstrasse area, however, we should indeed become active and react with measures," says Sluyterman.

Martin Blockhaus from the municipal building authority then summarized it: The residents of the street between Karwendelring and Pürschlingstrasse have complained to the city administration several times that traffic has increased significantly as a result of the expansion of the Forchet V development area.

Particularly dangerous for pedestrians: Because the road is not very wide, drivers sometimes have to switch to the sidewalk at narrowings of 4.30 meters, which is not elevated but is at road level.

And according to local residents, they often do this at great speed in the northern area.

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

What the city wants to do immediately: An electronic billboard is to be put up as early as Monday.

"This warns the driver to keep to the speed," says Blockhaus.

In addition, temporary plastic delimitations could be set up at the sidewalk edge - but this has to be tried out first.

Another possibility is to reduce traffic by designating a one-way street.

Stephan Hild (UWV) pointed out that the building committee had already been on site in 2010.

"People drive through there at high speed, that can't be," says Hild, even 80 km/h have already been measured there.

"It's only possible with structural measures that drivers are forced to drive slowly there," he says.

Blockhaus did not see the problem that the snow plow might then no longer be able to get through.

However, Blockhaus advised against built-in thresholds, also in view of the possible use of ambulances.

"You want to do without every bump." He also referred to a significant noise pollution for residents.

That is why the city of Schongau has already spent “an immense amount of money” on the dismantling.

"These are measures that are no longer up to date," Sluyterman supported him.

Criticism of possible one-way street regulation

Nina Konstantin's (ALS) suggestion to designate the one-way street uphill (heading north) was approved by several members of the building committee, as this would best defuse the danger.

This means that there is automatically a safety distance between cars and sidewalks, since the path is on the left-hand side of the road.

But there were also critical voices.

Thomas Schleich (UWV): "You're not doing yourself any favors with the one-way regulation, the road is then clear and you're more likely to step on the gas." The most effective way, on the other hand, is regular measurements by the police, according to Bettina Buresch (Greens).

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In addition to the temporary speed limit sign, the administration should now examine the possibility of a one-way street as well as measures that make it more difficult to drive on the sidewalk.

The committee will then take up the issue again.

"I would have expected more, but we are satisfied that everyone unanimously sees a need for action," said Andreas Ohr, the affected resident, when asked by SN.

He hopes that, in addition to the measuring system, another decision will be made quickly.

Among other things, the residents had suggested posts on the side of the road – at large intervals.

Years ago, two posts were placed on the corner of Baumrissstraße, which would have greatly defused the problem there, as he reports.

Hence the wish of the citizens: further demarcations in the northern area of ​​the street.

"People can then dodge, but they can no longer drive onto the sidewalk at full throttle."

You can find more current news from the region around Schongau at Merkur.de/Schongau.

Source: merkur

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