As of: February 10, 2024, 11:00 a.m
By: Antonia Reindl
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The Postgasse, which leads into the heart of the pedestrian zone, is being considered as part of the improvement of the footpath network to ensure accessibility.
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At its most recent meeting, the Murnau Transport and Mobility Committee discussed possible measures to improve the pedestrian network to improve accessibility.
Several suggestions were put into a kind of priority list.
At the forefront: the routes from the train station to central locations.
The market town council specified mobility guidelines over a year ago.
These guidelines are intended to provide step-by-step measures to ensure accessibility.
The market town has sought expertise and experience from different groups of people and associations such as VdK and the Bavarian Association of the Blind and Visually Impaired (BBSB) several times in the past, for example at a round table in December 2023.
Mobility manager Dr.
Andrea Falkner summarized the contents of the round table for the Transport and Mobility Committee.
One insight: you have to think in chains.
Falkner then presented the committee with various suggestions for improving the footpath network, which could be examined and developed.
Sorting by prioritization.
At the top of the list: the route from the train station to the town center.
This is followed by the path axis to the Murnau accident clinic and the retirement home in Kemmelpark, the improvement of the crossing option on Reschstrasse, the renovation of the path from the retirement home at Garhöll to the next bus stop and the barrier-free expansion of the bus stops plus weather protection and seating.
As far as the route to the school center is concerned: Falkner pointed out that the schools are not barrier-free.
The high school has an elevator, as does the secondary school.
It's the middle school's turn, said Wolfgang Köglmayr (More Moving) and was surprised that the schools are not considered barrier-free.
For him, this is no reason not to include schools.
Michael Jungnitsch (ÖDP/Citizens' Forum) also spoke out in favor of including routes to school.
The goal is for schools to become barrier-free.
Jungnitsch also looked at the route from the train station to the center: at the intersection in front of the Protestant church, people who were unfamiliar with the area were always standing around “haphazardly” and asking for directions to the pedestrian zone.
Köglmayr looked a little further, namely onto Griesbräustrasse.
He “wouldn’t promote it” as a barrier-free route to the center.
In Postgasse, which is not far away, the sidewalks are much wider.
The idea behind the inclusion of Griesbräustrasse was to make the route to the center accessible from two sides, explained Mayor Rolf Beuting (ÖDP/Citizens' Forum), “not everyone wants to go to the Marian Column straight away”.
The topic of signage also came up again and again.
Falkner pointed out, for example, that in two places the white “traditional signs” conflict with the new yellow signs, in the form of contradictory information.
Beuting believed that the overall picture could become a little clearer if a few signs were taken down around town.
Meanwhile, the station roundabout concerned Stefan Lechner (ÖDP/Citizens' Forum), who wondered whether the pedestrian crossing there could be made a little safer, perhaps with a zebra crossing.
The topic had been discussed “367 times,” recalled Beuting.
This is “not permitted by law,” said Probst.
The committee ultimately unanimously approved the proposed measures.
The routes to school should be included in the list and Griesbräustraße should be removed.