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"Very very high traffic load"

2022-08-18T16:11:28.599Z


"Very very high traffic load" Created: 08/18/2022, 18:00 By: Gerti Reichl Traffic jam on the B 318 in Moosrain. A familiar sight for motorists and residents. © THOMAS PLETTENBERG Traffic jams on the B 318 are a familiar sight for drivers and residents these days. Festenbacher Anton Grafwallner, a retired traffic engineer, is therefore calling for the traffic lights on Kreuzstraße to be adjuste


"Very very high traffic load"

Created: 08/18/2022, 18:00

By: Gerti Reichl

Traffic jam on the B 318 in Moosrain.

A familiar sight for motorists and residents.

© THOMAS PLETTENBERG

Traffic jams on the B 318 are a familiar sight for drivers and residents these days.

Festenbacher Anton Grafwallner, a retired traffic engineer, is therefore calling for the traffic lights on Kreuzstraße to be adjusted.

That's what the Rosenheim State Building Authority says.

Gmund – A line of vehicles rolls along the B 318 into the Tegernsee valley in the morning – and out again in the evening.

This image, which has been common for years, has become even more acute these days.

The reason for this is the closure of state road 2073 through Finsterwald, which has been running since August 8 and lasted a total of six weeks, because a traffic light system is being installed there and a bus stop is being converted to make it barrier-free.

Anton Grafwallner would have suggestions for adjusting the traffic lights.

© THOMAS PLETTENBERG

In addition, there is now also the renovation of Kaltenbrunner Straße from August 22nd, which is expected to last until September 9th.

As a result, the traffic diverted between Waakirchen and Gmund via the B 472 is added to the existing avalanche of traffic on the B 318.

Traffic jam on the B 318: Adaptation of the traffic lights required

Anton Grafwallner (74) from Gmund is watching the development very closely.

Although he has long since retired, as a former traffic engineer who was responsible for the planning and project development of traffic lights, suggestions for improvement are always going through his head.

Especially when he sees what's going on around Gmund these days from 9 a.m.

He demands: The traffic light on Kreuzstrasse must adapt to the situation.

Grafwallner knows figures and reports that the state road between Gmund and Waakirchen is loaded with an average of 9,000 vehicles a day, the federal road between Holzkirchen and Gmund with around 16,000. Grafwallner calculates and names the result: "Constant traffic jams in this area and large amounts of traffic passing through the numberersberg, Festenbach, Dürnbach, Rainmühle, Louisenthal and Gmunder Stachus." Many drivers would be guided by Google and its recommendations calculated by artificially controlled intelligence.

"According to the motto 'Google knows everything, knows everything, finds everything', they even dodge on single-lane municipal roads," notes Grafwallner.

For him it is astonishing that the technical authorities and mobility specialists had not thought of adapting the traffic lights to the additional traffic load.

Grafwallner has a recommendation: shorten the straight-ahead signal, i.e. the green phase on the B 318 in the direction of Gmund and the straight-ahead signal on the B 472 in the direction of Miesbach, by ten seconds, and extend the green phase at the Gmund traffic lights from the direction of Munich by ten seconds.

In addition, the possibility of turning left on the B 318 coming from the north would have to be limited to a maximum of twelve seconds.

"With that," the retired expert calculated, "five more cars would roll through the intersection, which would mean 50 vehicles in ten laps and would lead to a good 500 meters fewer traffic jams." The goal should be

to shorten the hour-long traffic jams and to move the traffic jam to the areas outside of Kreuzstrasse.

According to Grafwallner, the advantage would be that the population in Moosrain, Dürnbach, Festenbach and Gmund would have to endure less pollution and noise.

Adaptation of the traffic lights on Kreuzstraße: the state building authority rejects this

However, when confronted with Grafwallner's proposal, the Rosenheim State Building Authority reacted with skepticism.

"This inflow regulation into the Tegernsee valley would be problematic for safety reasons," spokeswoman Ursula Lampe passed on the assessment of a colleague responsible for traffic lights in the service area of ​​the Rosenheim State Building Authority.

"The sudden end of the traffic jam on the open road would not correspond to the specifications of the central traffic management office," said Lampe.

She also points out that there are quite different interests.

"The municipality of Waakirchen would like to do exactly the opposite and would like to change the traffic lights so that traffic coming from Waakirchen can flow faster."

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Even if long waiting times are understandable for all road users and represent a great burden, the Rosenheim State Building Authority believes that the existing traffic light regulation should be adhered to.

"The problem," said the spokeswoman, "is first and foremost the very, very high traffic load, which means that the traffic lights reach the limits of their performance."

For Grafwallner, the negative attitude is not understandable.

There is only one explanation: "You can't or you don't want to."

By the way: You can read even more current news from the region at Merkur.de/Tegernsee

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Source: merkur

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