On the road with a driving instructor: these are the trickiest spots on Bruck's streets

Created: 07/11/2022, 20:24

By: Peter Loder

Driving instructor Fred Hermann knows the places where you should be particularly careful.

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Driving instructors are experts when it comes to the most dangerous spots on the streets of Fürstenfeldbruck.

In order to defuse a particularly tricky point, the driving instructors reached into their own pockets.

Fürstenfeldbruck – Fred Herrmann (59) has been a driving instructor in Fürstenfeldbruck since 1988.

He is also the spokesman for his 20 professional colleagues in the district.

Instead of a learner driver, this time he took a Tagblatt reporter on tour.

The fact that 70 percent of the learner drivers have their driver's license after an average of 35 hours of practice on the first try is an advertisement for the driving instructors.

And it is due to the fact that the most delicate passages are repeatedly controlled and crammed through on the spot.

There are not many, says Herrmann.

"But the few have it all."

Is constantly out and about in the city with his students: driving instructor Fred Hermann knows the places where you should be particularly careful.

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Several times a day to the Kaisersäule

For example, the 59-year-old takes a course several times a day towards the Kaisersäulen junction on the B 2 near Puch, which is considered the accident black spot.

No matter from which direction you turn onto the federal highway with right of way: "There is a cross with this crossing." For Hermann it is incomprehensible why more and more roundabouts would be built, but precisely at this point none have been built.

"It would actually be very easy in terms of planning and would also make a visual impression if the Imperial Column was in the center and the cars circled it." By the way: It would make an even better impression on the driving instructor if drivers were already existing roundabouts just as consistently use the turn signal as his students.

Red stripe pattern puzzle

Is constantly out and about in the city with his students: driving instructor Fred Hermann knows the places where you should be particularly careful.

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Two kilometers south of the Kaisersäule – below the railway bridge at the junction of Schöngeisinger Straße into Buchenau – the next tricky spot.

Even professional Fred Herrmann frowns here every time and puzzles over what the red horizontal stripes recently painted on the road mean to him.

It seems clear that they mark the bike lanes at the edge of the road.

But they also criss-cross the turning lanes.

That would not only irritate his students, but also mature and experienced drivers.

"That doesn't make any sense, it's far too complicated and would have to go away again very quickly in the interest of the cyclists," summarizes Hermann.

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A crossing aid for pedestrians on the main street would be much more logical for the 59-year-old.

But that is still missing.

In any case, Bruck's city center is a real challenge for his learner drivers.

Wheel track stops suddenly

A mirror now ensures that the start of the test drive does not fail.

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For example at Hotel Post.

There the cycle lane ends abruptly just before the crossing.

Even if cyclists drive attentively and considerately, they are endangered at this point when driving straight ahead.

Because they can get in each other's way with cars that turn right onto Schöngeisinger Straße.

The next, even bigger problem in the city center follows a few meters further: the Amper Bridge with its narrow lanes.

However, there is little that can be done to fix it quickly.

(By the way: Everything from the region is now also available in our regular FFB newsletter.)

Tempo 20 hard to see

Training tours on Schöngeisinger Straße are still relatively new – along the new 20 km/h zone.

Dosing the unusually low speed is Herrmann's lesser problem.

"It's much worse that the information signs were placed so clumsily that they are difficult to see, not only for my students," says the 59-year-old while driving.

In the meantime, the city has improved – with speed displays and other signs.

Sight trap at the TÜV exit

The driving instructors have mitigated another tricky point at their own expense: every test drive begins on the TÜV premises in Hasenheide.

The exit from the company premises at the Rudolf-Diesel-Ring is very confusing.

Ironically, on the way to the driver's license, there has already been an accident there.

In the meantime, a traffic mirror has been installed there for 900 euros.

Since then, the exit has been an accident-free zone on the journey to the Lappen.