On Sunday (April 23) thousands of people will cycle to Munich's Königsplatz in a rally.
The route also leads over the A96.
The result is traffic jams.
Munich – Thousands of cyclists supported the Bavarian Radl referendum on Sunday with a rally to Munich's Königsplatz.
By early afternoon, their number had grown to around 17,000, police said.
It could rise even further until the final rally.
8000 participants were registered.
For the first time, one of the routes of the rally also took the autobahn, specifically over a small section of the A96 in Munich.
Thousands cycle for referendums - also on the Munich Autobahn
This is currently causing traffic jams.
The ADAC traffic jam detector records a one kilometer traffic jam on the A96 between the Munich Freiham-Süd junction and the Gräfelfing junction.
You have to reckon with a loss of time of at least 15 minutes (as of 3:15 p.m.).
The starting points of the rally were sometimes far away from Munich - in Augsburg, Rosenheim, Weilheim or Freising.
With the rally, the ADFC cycling club wants to support the Radl referendum that was submitted to the Bavarian Constitutional Court by the Ministry of the Interior in March for a decision.
According to the Ministry of the Interior, the legal requirements for the approval of the referendum are not met because the draft law interferes with Parliament's budgetary rights, and the state parliament also lacks the legislative competence for road traffic regulations.
Bavarian bike law is to be enacted
More than 100,000 citizens applied for the Radl referendum.
It was submitted at the end of January under the formal name "Radentscheid Bayern".
The initiators want to ensure that a Bavarian bike law is enacted and other regulations, such as the road and road law, are changed.
The aim is the new construction, conversion and expansion as well as the renovation of cycle paths.
(tkip/dpa)
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