Parking chaos at the ice rink: Grafing wants to get rid of crowds of cars

Created: 11/30/2022, 6:56 p.m

By: Michael Seeholzer

The space around the Grafinger Eisstadion is not that empty when there are events.

For example, instead of cars, the city envisions a terrace for the pizzeria in the future.

© Michael Seeholzer

Grafing wants to get rid of the masses of cars parked around the outdoor pool, soccer field and ice hockey stadium with significant restrictions.

Grafing

– Anyone who has ever driven their children to ice hockey practice or visited the only outdoor pool in the district knows the street by the stadium in Grafing.

Maybe as a spectator of a football or ice hockey game or tennis.

Or a visit to Milo in the “Aquarium” above the ice rink, the first pizzeria in the district.

Everyone has passed through here.

These people have one thing in common: looking for a parking space.

The street is actually too good for that.

But now something is changing.

Something beautiful could emerge “at the stadium”.

At least that was the opinion of the members of the Grafinger building committee.

Grafing's largest daycare center is currently growing there, the groundbreaking ceremony was in October.

That is why it is no longer irrelevant whether the traffic conditions remain so chaotic.

Grafing: "eyesore" at the stadium should be prettied up

It's a little bit better.

The city has created ample parking spaces that are accessible from the eastern bypass.

You have to put up with a short walk to the stadium.

However, there is no secret path from Kapellenstraße to the bypass, because bollards block the way for cars here.

However, the square in front of the outdoor pool is still an "eyesore" as long-time resident and building committee member Elli Huber (CSU) finds.

She complained that the space was used in the summer to set up a makeshift refrigerated truck, which was very noisy.

The bicycles parked all over the place there during the nice months of the year are just as chaotic as the cars.

If you pull your bike out there, "ten others fall over," reported Roswitha Singer (Greens) from her visits to the outdoor pool.

Narrow and dead straight: The access road "Am Stadion" is not only a bottleneck during construction work.

At events in the sports facilities, it is regularly parked up.

It shouldn't stay that way.

© Michael Seeholzer

Fewer parking spaces, wider sidewalks, a terrace for the pizzeria

This problem is to be solved at the same time as the road is reconstructed.

There will be many organized bicycle parking spaces in the future.

This is how it should go on: The vertical parking spaces in front of the school will disappear, but there are parallel parking spaces.

Teachers and school management agree.

The parking spaces in front of the middle school are reserved for them.

The existing pavement will be wider, and a new pavement will be added on the side facing the soccer field.

The lane will be narrowed to 5.50 meters, at the stadium there will be a reversing hammer for delivery traffic.

Ideally, there would be no parking at all, the committee said.

It is planned that the pizzeria will have a terrace so that guests can sit outside.

The outdoor gastronomy at the swimming pool is also being expanded.

The sidewalks to the right and left of the street will be lowered, and there will be trees between the parking bays.

So much for the variant on the basis of which further planning is to be carried out.

The decision to do so was unanimous.

trees and traffic calming

The traffic situation is calmed, "because otherwise it would not have been possible to build a kindergarten," reminded Mayor Christian Bauer (CSU).

"I think it's good, it can be really nice," said Johannes Oswald (Greens) in praise of the plans, which are now to be used to involve residents.

"That's good for the children," said Christian Einhellig (FW) about the fact that the western sidewalk will have a width of 2.20 meters in the future.

This means that it can be designed as a combined footpath and cycle path, according to building authority manager Josef Niedermaier.

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Finally, there was good news for the residents, who might have been worried about whether they would share in the costs of this traffic calming, from which they would benefit.

"The city pays for everything," says Niedermaier.

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