More traffic controls, the rerouting of trucks and better timing of the buses: The people of Neurieder have many ideas on how to improve the traffic situation in town.
As the next stage on the way to the mobility concept, measures are now to be formulated.
Neuried
– The results of citizen surveys and traffic surveys are in, now the municipality of Neuried would like to develop short, medium and long-term measures over the course of the year to make mobility environmentally friendly and social.
Potential savings are to be used so that the climate neutrality that the municipal council is aiming for by 2035 is achieved.
Christina Hofmeister, who has been responsible for climate protection and mobility management in the town hall since May 2022, presented to the building and environmental committee on Tuesday what the residents of Neuried wanted in terms of traffic and what the counts had shown.
336 participants in mobility survey
"The basic level has been ticked off so far, the level of measures will be processed in the course of the year," says Hofmeister.
After an analysis of the current situation, the Neuried residents were asked via Rats(ch)post between mid-December and mid-January to take part in a mobility survey.
336 replies were received, with almost 9000 inhabitants.
“We have a very good return value.
There is almost no other topic like that," said Mayor Harald Zipfel.
In six subject blocks, the participants ticked how satisfied they were and what could be improved.
Motor vehicle traffic found the least approval.
37 percent stated that they were dissatisfied, only 22 percent were satisfied, and the rest were neutral.
More controls, both of moving and stationary traffic, met with the greatest approval for improvement measures.
Almost 40 percent wanted truck traffic to be diverted, and almost 37 percent wanted more speed limits.
The bus service received the highest level of satisfaction at 49.60 percent, with two thirds of those surveyed in favor of better frequency and almost 41 percent in favor of new or more direct connections.
There was also overwhelming agreement with the existing footpath network, with just under 15 percent dissatisfied.
Around half voted for a widening of the footpaths, 42 percent for more safety by separating footpaths and cycle paths.
47 percent would like additional cycle paths
30 percent were satisfied with the cycle path network in its current form and 18 percent dissatisfied.
Here, too, more than half had an increased need for safety, and 47 percent wanted additional cycle paths.
A few weeks before the Neuried survey, the Munich Southwest Regional Management Association, to which all the Würmtal municipalities, the state capital Munich, Germering and Starnberg belong, also conducted a citizen survey under the keyword "Multimodal Mobility Strategy Würmregion".
In each municipality, 1000 inhabitants were randomly written to.
In Neuried, 278 responded, five percent of whom said they did not own a car.
On average, there are 1.7 cars per household, almost a third of which are parked on public streets.
93 percent of those surveyed have a driver's license and 31 percent have a public transport season ticket.
42 percent drive one to three times a week, 29 percent every day.
When it comes to bicycles, 32 percent use them every day and 25 percent get on their bikes one to three times a week.
18 percent use public transport almost every day, 21 percent almost never.
38 percent described the traffic situation in Neuried as good, 26 percent as satisfactory.
Ten percent pedestrians in the town center
Even before the surveys, a traffic survey was carried out at the end of September to determine the proportion of pedestrian and bicycle traffic.
Because the weather was moderate that day with a maximum temperature of 16 degrees and constant rain, the number of cyclists and pedestrians on the road was below average.
It was counted at the crossroads in the town center and at 14 other points.
The result of the commissioned office Ingevost: The bicycle traffic has only a small share with three percent and 3.5 percent on roads that go beyond the municipal boundaries.
Pedestrians make up four percent of road users.
It is different at the crossroads in the center of town.
On the day at the end of September, the proportion of bicycle traffic was eight to nine percent and that of pedestrians ten percent.
“Pedestrians and cyclists follow the main axes (southern Gautinger-Münchner Straße – Fürstenrieder-Planegger Straße).
In the further course of Gautinger Straße from the junction with Fichtenstraße, alternative cycle routes through the residential areas are preferred," says the summary of the engineering office for traffic studies in the local and urban area.
Interesting: At the crossroads in the town center, counting was carried out on the Münchner Straße and the Gautinger Straße.
There were 481 cyclists at the Gautinger Straße cross-section.
According to Ingevost, around 30 percent “illegally used the sidewalk in the east”.
Maybe enlightenment will help: according to the road traffic regulations, cyclists are not supposed to be on the sidewalk.
Exception: Children up to the age of ten may cycle on the sidewalk.
And if they are not older than eight, then also persons accompanying them (from 16 years of age).
All others belong on the road.