Lots of warnings, some fines: bike checks in Tölzer Markstrasse

Created: 08/05/2022, 06:30

By: Andreas Steppan

"I didn't race through, just rolled through": The arguments that a cyclist puts forward to the traffic controllers Max Brummer (left) and Enrico Schunk are of little use to him that day.

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The bicycle controls of the traffic surveillance in the Tölzer Marktstraße also met with quite mixed reactions.

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- "But there are also special times, so someone should know their way around.

I'm not from here - and I didn't race through it, I just rolled through it.” The sporty man in racing cyclist gear never runs out of arguments.

But it's no use.

"It says everywhere that cycling is not allowed here in the pedestrian zone," replies the traffic controller.

A fine of 25 euros is now due for the violation.

For the second time on Thursday, employees of the "Zweckverband Kommunale Diensten" started an action to monitor the ban on cycling in Marktstrasse.

It is only allowed to cycle through the pedestrian zone between 9 p.m. and 9.30 a.m. in the morning.

During the day people have to push.

The regulation has hardly been checked in recent years - until the city of Bad Tölz transferred the monitoring of stationary traffic and the pedestrian zones to the special purpose association on April 1st (as reported).

Traffic officers want to be seen consciously

On Thursday, team leader Max Brummer and his colleagues Caroline Klawonn, Enrico Schunk and Michael Impekoven are back in Marktstrasse.

Their white shirts with epaulettes make them widely recognizable as traffic wardens.

"We want to be seen consciously," says Brummer.

It hardly takes a minute for the team to address the first cyclist.

The conversation is friendly.

"I actually knew that it was forbidden, but I thought it would be a few meters," admits Stefan Christl openly.

"But I think it's perfectly fine to be pointed out.

There are a lot of pedestrians here.” As with most cyclists, the monitors leave it at a friendly conversation.

Some women put on their most charming smiles, men mumble something about "didn't know" or "forgot".

Father, mother and two daughters roll down the cobblestones in a row.

That would actually cost 25 euros per person, the monitor explains.

"Then maybe this shouldn't be marked as a cycle path," says the father, pointing to a small green sign with a bike. In fact, the tourist Bodensee-Königsee cycle path leads through Marktstraße - which doesn't change the fact that you can push the bike got to.

The monitors still refrain from cashing in.

It is different with a young person who shoots with a lot of momentum from Kirchgasse into Marktstrasse on his mountain bike - and is perplexed when he is stopped.

He has to pay a fine of 25 euros because of the high speed.

Cyclists criticize bad connection in Tölz between top and bottom

Moritz Reischl-Zand properly writes his bicycle with trailer, but speaks to the monitors of his own accord.

"The problem is that in Tölz there is no good connection between top and bottom that cyclists can safely use," he says.

In any case, he doesn't let his children drive on the Osterleite.

And when the children are in the trailer, it can't get up the Osterleite at all.

Caroline Klawonn can only reply that the city would certainly be grateful for suggestions for improvement.

Today's control "certainly does not aim to cash in on families with children, but to make a statement so that people are more aware of the rules and they are better observed." Hans Zeiler still finds the action "stupid" and "exaggerated". he tells the Tölzer Kurier after a monitor has enlightened him without a fine.

“Everyone who drives here is really careful.

It fits our time that everything has to be regulated.”

Almost 30 traffic offenders in just one hour on Tölzer Marktstrasse

From the point of view of a long-term resident of Marktstrasse, however, the controls are justified.

There are "countless cyclists" who, according to his observation, drive on Marktstraße.

"There are no longer these Radler-Rambos like before, which ring everything away," he says.

Most are more reasonable.

But there are also enough who roar behind the sloping market street in the shot.

"Old people get frightened, and there have also been touches and falls." Max Brummer kept a tally.

In an hour of control, 21 cyclists received a verbal warning, seven fines were issued, four to cyclists and three to car drivers who had entered Marktstraße without permission.

The monitors want to come back.

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