The “Radentscheid Bayern” alliance has now also started successfully in the Ostallgäu

District – In 2017, the state government promised to double the proportion of bicycle traffic in Bavaria from 10 to 20 percent by 2025.

So far, however, the proportion of bicycle traffic has only increased by around one percentage point to 11 percent.

No wonder.

Cycle paths, parking facilities and bicycle transport options are missing or are often so poor and unsafe that they do not encourage cycling.

In the country there is no everyday network of cycle paths between the villages.

Often you only have the choice between bumpy dirt roads or dangerous cycling on country roads, where you are overtaken by heavy vehicles at very high speeds and with little distance.

Taking bikes on buses and trains is expensive, not guaranteed or usually not even possible.

The goal is a bicycle law for Bavaria that obliges the state government and local authorities to implement environmentally friendly mobility in practice.

The Bavarian Radentscheid is also supported by a broad alliance in the Ostallgäu: In addition to the ADFC and the Bund Naturschutz, there are the parties Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen, SPD, ÖDP and Die Linke.

Other local groups, companies and private individuals are also supporting the Radentscheid with campaigns, information stands and opportunities to sign.

So far, more than 300 signatures have been collected in Ostallgäu, the activists are happy at the start in Marktoberdorf.

Train station at the center of interests

We chose the Marktoberdorf train station, explains Johannes Auburger, so that the participants from the district can arrive and depart by train on the hour.

The bicycle parking facility and the Marktoberdorf train station are symbolic of the neglect of the environmental association.

No barrier-free development and not enough bicycle racks, not enough protection against the weather and theft for you to want to use a good bike or even e-bike to commute to the train.

Right next to it you can see the good cycle path signage, which is very well maintained in the Allgäu cycling region.

The cycle path along the train station is exemplary.

However, it would have to be consistently ensured here that the footpath and cycle path are not misused as parking spaces, meaning that pedestrians and cyclists have to dangerously switch to the roadway.

Radentscheid Bayern is committed to these and many other points for the consistent promotion of walking and cycling combined with public transport.

The most important goals of the Radentscheid:

• 25 percent bicycle traffic share by 2030

• A safe and comfortable cycle path network

• Vision Zero, i.e. zero fatalities in road traffic

• Promotion of the environmental

association • More rapid cycle connections

• Surface sealing is carefully considered

Further information on the Bavarian Radentscheid can be found at

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