With tears of joy to the shopping trip: This is how the first day with the Peitingmobil went

Created: 07/05/2022, 08:00

By: Barbara Schlotterer-Fuchs

Martin Lutzenberger picked up the colleague for the way home.

© Hans-Helmut Herold

Premiere for the "Bürger-Mobil": Since Monday, the market town of Peiting has been taking citizens from A to B as a district-wide pilot project - free of charge.

We tested it.

Peiting – What do Peiting's citizens actually get for their money in terms of Citizens' Mobile?

We want to know right away on the first day.

599 599 is the number.

We call.

Sometimes the hotline rings, sometimes not.

Shortly afterwards it turns out: technical problems on the first day.

Only five minutes later it is in front of the front door, the Citizens' Mobile.

At the wheel: Lydia Meßmer (55) from Schwabsoien.

As a citizen of Peiting, I want to get a Wienerle for my dog ​​Joschi from the butcher Schmausser.

The first challenge: I have the little black ball of yarn right on my arm.

Can the Zamperl come with me now?

Actually, as Lydia Meßmer explains, it doesn't work that way.

"Not that the dog flies into the pane when I have to brake, or that it bites." Joschi doesn't bite, but the whole thing makes sense to us.

Dogs are only allowed in a dog box in the new Bürger-Mobil.

Safe is now safe.

Joschi doesn't have to stay at home anyway.

Exceptionally, he is allowed to go on tour in the shopping basket.

The driver still has to get used to the navigation system

Photographer Hans-Helmut Herold is in the back seat so that we can capture our maiden voyage for the readers.

Alone: ​​Because I'm already sitting in the front, the rear door can't be opened.

This is only possible with this Mazda e-mobile if nobody is sitting in front.

So Joschi and I have to get out again, Lydia Meßmer opens the back.

"Yeah, that's a bit newfangled," she admits.

During the short drive through Peiting we learn a lot about the new taxi driver Lydia.

She gave up her office job for the Bürgermobil.

“I've always wanted to do something different and this suits me perfectly – like a glove.” Messmer is undoubtedly sociable and helpful.

"And I really like driving," she reveals.

We'll help her a bit to guide her through the town.

Of course, she can't quite get the hang of using the navigation system on the first day.

"And besides, I'm so excited."

She's not afraid that oddballs might sit next to her in the Citizens' Mobile.

She mainly counts on seniors, whom she drives to the doctor or to go shopping.

Together with the dog we go to the butcher

And if I want to ride with her at lunchtime, have already had a drink and want her to drive me to the gas station?

“We should decide based on gut feeling,” she explains.

Of course, she already knows how to prevent someone from driving: "It's definitely not that easy." But we're peaceful.

Terminus butcher shop Schmausser.

Joschi gets his Wienerle.

Here, the new Citizens' Mobile is admired by the entire workforce.

Lydia Messmer is not allowed to wait until the shopping is done.

If you want to go home after shopping, you call again and they pick you up, that's the principle.

This is the only way that the two citizens' mobiles, which are on the road Monday to Friday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. (same time in the morning) exclusively in the local area, can rotate permanently in the town.

If you call, you will be picked up within five minutes.

The Bürger-Mobil cannot be pre-ordered.

To do this, waving passengers are also picked up at the edge of the road – and if need be, they are also driven to remote Peitinger Riedschaften.

For the way back we get on at Martin Lutzenberger (43).

He is the full-time Peiting-Mobil driver, a true thoroughbred Peitinger who is already passionate about the project, which is unparalleled in the district.

"That's a good thing for Peiting," he explains fervently.

He received the confirmation on his first trip this morning.

He drove an elderly lady from Peiting to go shopping at the V-Markt.

"She was overjoyed, had tears in her eyes and thanked me and the community a thousand times."

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Every ride is recorded

During the short drive, the lady told him that she no longer drives and therefore doesn't go shopping anymore.

But she also said that until the very end she had reservations about calling the citizen mobile number.

"The woman couldn't believe it was really free.

And she had concerns about whether we were really friendly.” In any case, that is not only out of the question in the case of Martin Lutzenberger.

What if the lady calls again and stands there with a drink carrier?

"Then of course I invite her in and out."

The whole workforce is coming: The first trip of the Peitinger Bürger-Mobil led to the butcher shop Schmausser, a test drive by our editor Barbara Schlotterer-Fuchs.

Driver Lydia Meßmer joined the picture on the right.

© Hans-Helmut Herold

One thing is certain: the two Peiting-Mobil drivers that we got to know yesterday on the first day are so nice that we would have liked to invite them to our home for a coffee chat.

Once word gets around, we are sure that 599 599 in Peiting will soon become a hot number.

How the whole thing develops in the two years: This is continuously recorded.

Each individual journey is documented by the driver.

How many people went where and when?

The bottom line will then be, at the latest, whether the 200,000 euros of tax money from the citizens of Peiting and just as much funding from the Free State have been invested in a project that has written a success story.