In Munich's Glockenbachviertel, bright red cycle paths are polarizing, in Haidhausen a planned pedestrian zone in Weißenburger Strasse.
FDP politician Susanne Seehofer sharply criticizes the red-green city government at tz.de.
Munich - Sometimes there are bright yellow parcel delivery vans on the bright red stripes.
Sometimes it's pizza delivery men with their mopeds.
From time to time, a beer truck mistakes the cycle paths on Fraunhoferstrasse for parking bays.
The cycle lanes in Munich's Glockenbachviertel between the Isar and Müllerstraße polarize.
Munich city center car-free?
Polarizing cycle paths on the Fraunhoferstrasse
Now FDP local politician Susanne Seehofer is taking the political issue from the Isarvorstadt in an interview with
tz.de
and
Münchner Merkur
as an opportunity to protest against plans by the Greens to gradually transform downtown Munich into car-free zones.
As recently as 2019, the Greens had even called for a car-free old town in Munich by 2025 - which will probably no longer be possible.
“One must not play people off against each other, bad cyclists or bad drivers.
I believe that both must be possible," says the daughter of former Interior Minister Horst Seehofer (CSU): "We can't take away mobility from the thousands of commuters, craftsmen and suppliers in the city center.
The culture war against the car is the wrong way.
The right approach is to make the car as sustainable as possible.”
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The fact is: cycle paths that have been marked on existing car roads always cause discussions in the Bavarian state capital.
Because: Since then, various means of transport have been supposed to work side by side in what is presumably too little space.
Accidents, quarrels on the open road, cargo bike traffic jams at traffic lights - according to a number of observations, this works rather moderately.
More cycle paths in Munich city center?
FDP politician Seehofer promotes the car
If, for example, there is a major construction site right next to the road, it gets really tricky.
In 2022, for example, there was trouble about a Lidl branch on Zweibrückenstraße because the discounter was said to be temporarily no longer able to be supplied due to a new cycle path.
The city council has been pushing ahead with plans to make downtown Munich largely car-free for years.
However, ideas from the red-green town hall coalition for a pedestrian zone in the valley are faltering because the railway needs the area for construction site traffic because of the second trunk line.
Nevertheless, a greener Munich city center is a wish of many citizens - recently an artist presented spectacular proposals.
You can't play people off against each other, bad cyclists or bad drivers.
(...) The culture war against the car is the wrong way.
Susanne Seehofer (FDP) in conversation with tz.de
FDP politician Seehofer pleads against it: “Rail is important.
bike is important.
The central mode of transport is and will remain the road.” The red-green city government does not communicate with the citizens, criticizes the early 30s: “I was recently in Haidhausen on Weißenburger Straße, which is to become a pedestrian zone.
People who have small businesses, boutiques, or toy stores there tell me that nobody from town has ever stopped by and spoken to them before.
How are they supposed to have their shops supplied?”
Pedestrian zone in Munich-Haidhausen?
Seehofer refers to suppliers
It's the kind of people who "hold our livable city center together, including the Glockenbach, for example, one of the most beautiful districts in Munich," says Seehofer, who is applying for a place in the Bavarian state parliament for the Liberals in the Munich-Mitte constituency, like
Merkur .de
reported.
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Susanne Seehofer (Mi., FDP) at the panel discussion in Munich, here with the FDP member of the Bundestag Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann, among others.
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She demands at
tz.de
: “Driving a car must remain possible.
It's not a question of if, but of how.
For example, we have to ask ourselves where cars that are not needed at the moment can be parked.
We need fewer bans and more innovative ideas.” With a view to the heavily frequented Glockenbachviertel, Seehofer makes a suggestion: “Some FDP city councilors and I recently spoke about Edeka on Ickstattstrasse.
It has a huge basement parking garage.
Why is nobody making it possible for residents to park there?”
Public transport in Munich: FDP politician Seehofer calls for higher frequencies on the subways
Seehofer, who works at BMW in the development of sustainable automobiles, also demands higher frequency in the sometimes overloaded Munich public transport.
“People would drive far less if there were better alternatives in Munich.
On a Sunday, for example, you need half an hour with public transport from Schwabing to Lenbachplatz," she says: "We won't get anywhere in Munich with a red-green small train policy.
We need rhythms that suit a metropolis of millions.
We need more wagons for trams and subways, some of which are completely overcrowded.
At peak times, clock rates have to be increased."
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