1500 signatures for bicycle street in Neubiberg

Created: 05/26/2022, 07:30

By: Harald Hettich

The municipal council unanimously spoke out in favor of strengthening the rights of cyclists on Cramer-Klett-Straße and thus ensuring greater safety.

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At the latest since the most recent Neubiberg municipal council meeting, the demand for a bicycle street in Cramer-Klett-Straße has received strong support.

An intergroup motion by Free Voters, Greens and SPD to initiate the next planning and implementation steps was unanimously accepted at the meeting.

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- The committee has thus committed itself to dealing with the content of the topic within the next three months.

Beforehand, the two initiative speakers Ulrich Weidauer and Ulrich Lippoldt, together with headmaster Reinhard Rolvering from the Neubiberger Gymnasium, had once again campaigned intensively for the project in the presence of numerous citizens and students from the Gymnasium and Realschule.

Not a pure bicycle street

The initiators made it clear that the term "bicycle street" was quite misleading when collecting the currently around 1,500 signatures for the project on social platforms, on "open pedition", on the school's parents' portal or in local shops.

"Of course it's nonsense that only cyclists will be allowed to drive on Cramer-Klett-Strasse in the future - cars, buses and trucks can still drive there," Lippoldt clarified.

Only the "priority" will be shifted in favor of cyclists, who will be allowed to ride next to each other in the street in the future.

Weidauer summarizes the essence of the demand: "All we need is a corresponding traffic sign and markings on the roadway so that drivers pay more attention to cyclists and schoolchildren."

The topic came up in 2018

However, the demand for the Cramer-Klett-Straße bicycle route is not that new and is already a few years old.

The council discussed the issue in 2018.

However, after a veto by the district office at the time, the project had ended up in a dead end for a long time.

According to the administrative regulation that was still relevant at the time, bicycle traffic should have been “predominant” there.

According to surveys by the community and authorities, it was and still is not in Cramer-Klett-Straße.

But the regulation has now been adjusted in favor of cyclists.

"That's why I'm now cautiously optimistic that it will work," says Mayor Thomas Pardeller (CSU).

Many students come by bike

Principal Rolvering gave good reasons for strengthening cyclists.

"We currently have 1,280 students - and the trend is rising."

In the morning between 7.45 a.m. and 7.55 a.m. a lot of people come by bike.

In the substantive examination, a possible time limit for a cycle street should only be examined for certain core hours of the school rush.

The council agreed on this.

By autumn at the latest, the committee should finally deal with the topic.

In any case, the chances for cyclists on the Cramer-Klett-Straße should have improved significantly.

The good atmosphere in the council chamber had a signal effect.