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Greens: Schäftlarn bypass has no future

2022-05-21T08:09:50.794Z


Greens: Schäftlarn bypass has no future Created: 05/21/2022, 10:00 am By: Sabine Hermsdorf-Hiss Thousands of cars roll through Schäftlarn every day. A bypass seemed to be the solution for a long time. But the Greens are now backing away from it. Photo: hermsdirf-hiss © Sabine Hermsdorf-Hiss The announcement is unmistakable: "We from the Greens," said Christian Lankes during the party's local m


Greens: Schäftlarn bypass has no future

Created: 05/21/2022, 10:00 am

By: Sabine Hermsdorf-Hiss

Thousands of cars roll through Schäftlarn every day.

A bypass seemed to be the solution for a long time.

But the Greens are now backing away from it.

Photo: hermsdirf-hiss © Sabine Hermsdorf-Hiss

The announcement is unmistakable: "We from the Greens," said Christian Lankes during the party's local meeting, "will not continue to pursue the Schäftlarn bypass."

Schäftlarn

- The politician himself advocated a bypass for many years.

"But the current situation makes it necessary to rethink." The planning of the bypass is like a never-ending story.

"We've been dealing with it for over 40 years," summarizes Lankes.

Decision for a variant

Starnberger Straße, which meanders through Hohenschäftlarn with a gradient of up to eleven percent, is used daily by around 12,000 vehicles (of which around seven percent are trucks).

In between: Pedestrians trying to cross the road.

Things got moving more than a decade ago.

The municipal councils decided to apply for the Bavarian government's road development plan with Variant B, a corridor route in the north of Hohenschäftlarn.

In 2011, this was recorded here with priority level R1 (reserve).

Referendum and round table

In 2013, the community decided not to wait for the start of construction in the distant future, but to take matters into their own hands as part of a special municipal construction contract.

Farmers, representatives of the citizens' initiative, offices, planners and authorities sat down at a round table.

"We wanted to get such a vote," Lankes remembers.

"Only that the rounds became a square table." Another variant at the edge of the forest was thrown up.

In a referendum in 2019, however, the citizens spoke out in favor of the B route.

Litigation would take years

In order to initiate the necessary species protection investigation, safety fences would now have to be set up.

But not all landowners were willing to have the fences put up.

The consequence would be the initiation of legal action.

"But that would again lead to a division within the community," said Lankes.

And then there is the time factor.

A legal dispute can drag on for years and costs money.

"I'm counting on 15 to 20 years here," the Green points out.

"But what will the traffic situation be like in 20 years?" Lankes estimates that individual traffic will decrease.

“Are roads really the future of mobility?” Cutting through the corridor and sealing it are still issues.

And then there is the planned Schorn business park. The municipal council voted against the construction in a resolution, also because the resulting additional traffic would burden the municipality.

"They reckoned with our bypass in their traffic concept."

Green: Plans buried

Lankes is in favor of burying the plans for the bypass and using the money that has been set aside in the budget to pursue other priorities.

A traffic planner would certainly be conceivable, for example, who should examine other options for controlling traffic.

Source: merkur

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