The site is potentially dangerous for pedestrians.
The Oberammergau municipal council agrees on this.
To reduce the speed, but was rejected.
You are looking for other solutions.
Oberammergau – Citizens approached them and drew their attention to the problem.
On the potential danger for pedestrians, which is mainly the intersection at Hotel Wolf and VR-Bank.
For this reason, the representatives of the Non-Party Voters' Association (PWG) took up the issue and brought it to the municipal council.
In the form of an application.
This aimed to limit the speed of road traffic in the area of Eugen-Papst-Straße, Pürschlingweg junction, to Bahnhofstraße, Freikorpsstraße junction – to 30 kilometers per hour (km/h).
The parliamentary group narrowly failed with its request (9:10 votes).
But not because the local politicians considered the demand for more security to be superfluous.
There was consensus that the crossing area in particular was too confusing.
Traffic show planned for spring
Ludwig Utschneider (PWG) spoke of a "neuralgic point".
Although he knows about the mind games of a change in the law at federal level, which would result in a speed limit of 30 kilometers per hour in towns and cities.
The representatives of the lower traffic authority were informed about this last autumn at a meeting with the government of Upper Bavaria.
However, main access roads could be excluded.
“We will then be left out,” Utschneider speculates.
Because the Eugen-Papst-Strasse should fall into this category.
In any case, the district office recommended that the municipality make a decision on the application later.
Also for another reason.
This spring, a traffic show is on the program with the responsible persons from the district authority and the police.
During this, the problem, in general the situation in said section from the point of view of pedestrians, should be discussed.
Waiting for this meeting was also recommended by Mayor Andreas Rödl (CSU) to the municipal councils.
The application "we will not get through legally," he emphasized.
The administration had informed the district office about this in advance.
"Maybe we can do something structurally," said the mayor.
When asked by the daily newspaper, he gave an example.
"We have to take a look at the ownership situation and see if a crossing aid for pedestrians might be possible."
Cars, as a rule, do not exceed the permitted speed
Anton Preisinger also confirmed that there was a need for improvement (a good sense of proportion).
Only: The problem is not the speed.
"I want to see someone who drives around the curve there at 50." Rather, he cited the various junctions as the basic evil.
Excessive speeds are rare on Eugen-Papst-Strasse anyway.
Road users "rather drive slower than 50," said Thomas Gotzler, municipal councilor and police officer.
There have already been laser measurements there.
"The exceedances are small."
Like Rödl, Simon Fischer (CSU) pleaded not to make a decision this time and to discuss the traffic show's proposals in the committees at a different time.
But the PWG didn't play along.
"We don't see it as expedient to defer the application," Utschneider clarified.
"We want to achieve an improvement as a preventive measure." The wish to reduce the speed to 30 km/h fell through, but Rödl announced: "We will pay attention to the subject." Taking into account a possible change in the law.
