Quiet on the A9: New road surface coming next year
Created: 05/22/2022, 07:15
By: Sabina Brosch
The A9 gets a new surface near Garching.
(Archive photo) © Bert Brosch
The A9 motorway is getting a new road surface near Garching.
This made the city council happy.
Garching
– The noise of the Autobahn near Garching will soon subside, on and around the A 9 it should be quieter.
A new road surface should fix it, which will come next year.
Gerlinde Schmolke (SPD) is satisfied, even happy.
With stubbornness, the city councilor had been pushing the speaker's microphone again and again for years under the agenda item "Miscellaneous": "How about the sound level measurements along the motorway?" she probed.
Always combined with a request to the administration to ask why no noise measurements have been carried out on the A 9 near Garching for years.
Schmolke referred to the fact that in the course of the planning approval decision in 2004 it was agreed to carry out annual sound level measurements.
“The persistent follow-up paid off”
The Autobahndirektion also fulfilled this task, but only until 2013, when the original two-layer open-pored surface (2OPA) was replaced by a so-called single-layer whisper-quiet asphalt.
The State Office for the Environment (LFU) informed the municipality of Eching that due to the good permanent properties of the single-layer, open-pore measurements would only be carried out again in eight years.
As early as 2015, Schmolke pointed out that the 2004 agreement did not provide this.
It doesn't have to be annual measurements, but it shouldn't be accepted to stop measuring at all.
She referred to measurements in Ingolstadt, where the noise level was also determined for single-pore coverings.
Just as Schmolke wanted to renew her concerns at the last city council meeting, the administration had already received written confirmation from the southern Bavarian motorway authority that the road surface would be renewed in the coming year.
"It's like Easter and Christmas at the same time," says Schmolke.
"Perhaps my constant, persistent follow-up has paid off there."
More news from Garching and the district of Munich can be found here.