Tempo 30 initiative rejected

Created: 05/28/2022, 09:04

By: Klaus Greif

Tempo 30. © example photo: Arno Burgi

Germering will not join the Tempo 30 city initiative.

A corresponding application by the Greens was rejected in the city council by the CSU and Free Voters.

Germering – The city initiative Tempo 30 was founded a year ago.

The main goal is that in the future the local authorities will be able to decide for themselves where to limit the speed to 30 km/h in built-up areas.

So far, this has only been possible in residential areas or areas with a high density of pedestrian and bicycle traffic.

This excludes main roads.

Members of the initiative include the cities of Augsburg, Freiburg, Ulm and Leipzig.

If the initiative achieves this and other goals, the city would have more powers, Green City Councilor Gerhard Blahusch justified his request.

Accession would not mean that the city would immediately introduce a 30 km/h speed limit on all roads: "It's up to us whether we do it." This opportunity should be used.

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The administration was opposed to the request.

Legal office manager Dagmar Hager justified this with the fact that the traffic concept adopted in 1999 had a high level of acceptance and the number of accidents had fallen since then.

Among other things, it provides for 30 zones in residential areas, 30 km/h in front of day-care centers, schools and retirement homes, and 40 km/h on the so-called collecting roads.

These include, for example, Untere and Obere Bahnhofstrasse, Dorfstrasse and Planegger Strasse.

Not mandatory

This left only a few roads on which 50 kilometers per hour may be driven.

60 km/h are still allowed on the clip.

However, there are already concrete considerations to introduce a 50 limit here.

Dagmar Hager therefore does not consider further changes to be absolutely necessary.

Christian Ganslmeier (CSU) saw it similarly.

Germering has a road network of around 110 kilometers and you can only drive faster than 50 km/h on around ten kilometers.

In addition, as a city councilor, he sees no obligation to act as a supporter of the federal legislature: "We are the wrong body for this." The city councilors should rather work to ensure that 7.5-ton trucks are not allowed to park in residential areas over the weekend.

Franz Senninger (CSU) resisted conducting ideological debates.

He defended the existing traffic concept with the words: "Never change a running team".

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Traffic officer Franz Hermannsdorfer (FW) also supported Dagmar Hager's arguments.

However, he went one step further: "The planned limitation of the clip to 50 km/h is wrong."

Resident applications would come immediately

Daniel Liebetruth (SPD) reminded that the application is not about specific speed reduction projects, but: "It's about whether we should be given the opportunity to do so." He thinks that makes sense.

Applicant Blahusch pointed this out again, who was then supported by environmental officer Angelika Kropp-Dürr (Greens) and third mayor Sophie Schuhmacher (Greens).

Second Mayor Manuela Kreuzmair (CSU) feared that if the initiative was successful, there would be immediate requests from residents for a speed limit of 30 km/h.

Martina Seeholzer (FW) even warned of the opposite effect: “In Planegg there is a speed limit of 30 on the through road.

The traffic stops there and that's why it's dangerous for cyclists there."

Third mayor Sophie Schuhmacher (Greens) rejected this as wrong.

She regularly rides the route by bicycle.

From their point of view, without 30 km/h this would be more dangerous than it already is.

With this assessment, however, she did not change anything in the result of the 20:14 rejection of Gerhard Blahusch's application.

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