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Eichmühlstrasse in Bad Tölz is closed until the end of June because the municipal utilities are laying pipes there for their local heating network.
The traffic impacts can also be felt on the Flinthöhe.
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Traffic jam on Flinthöhe: This is nothing new for drivers.
In the last few days, however, the situation at the Tölz traffic junction has worsened again.
Bad Tölz – Eichmühlstrasse is actually not a real traffic axis.
But its closure since the end of February due to the expansion of the local heating network by the municipal utility has had noticeable consequences for Tölz traffic: the already common traffic jam on the Flinthöhe is getting worse.
Eichmühlstraße in Bad Tölz closed until the end of June
Eichmühlstrasse connects a residential area.
The curve over Sachsenkamer Straße and B472 is now signposted as a diversion.
In addition, Eichmühlstraße is often used together with Allgaustraße as a secret route through the city in order to avoid the traffic jams on Flinthöhe.
This option is no longer available to drivers.
Descriptions of the current situation vary.
“It’s been pure chaos for days,” complained a reader in a message to the Tölzer Kurier.
The effects can also be felt in the Lettenholz primary school.
“The bus arrives a little later than usual, the children arrive almost exactly at 8 a.m.,” says principal Bärbel Weixner.
“But it’s not dramatic, our processes aren’t really disrupted.”
Heavy backlog on the Flinthöhe in Bad Tölz
Meanwhile, Lars Werner, traffic officer at the Bad Tölz police station, says: “According to our estimates, the closure of Eichmühlstrasse will not lead to any greater 'traffic chaos' on Flinthöhe than without the closure.” At least that is his assessment.
“Experience has shown that the first few days of a closure always feel like the worst, until a kind of habituation effect occurs and the road user changes his route choice or switches to alternative means of transport.”
Martin Herda from the Weilheim State Building Authority has observed the situation more closely in the past few days and confirmed that there was “sometimes a very strong backlog towards Flinthöhe coming from the north and east”.
At the moment it is difficult for him to estimate whether the reason for this is actually the closure of Eichmühlstrasse.
If so, “then we underestimated the impact of this lockdown,” he admits.
Relief through switching traffic lights?
He now wants to consider whether and how the situation can be improved.
After all, it is “a considerable period of time”.
According to Stadtwerke spokeswoman Martina Geisberger, the closure of Eichmühlstrasse will last until the end of June.
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The only possible adjustment to create a little relief at Flinthöhe would probably be to adjust the traffic lights there.
However, police officer Werner believes this is not feasible.
“This would require a completely new assessment of the traffic load by a traffic engineer,” he says.
“This is disproportionate to the duration and scope of the construction project.” Martin Herda also has doubts about this, but would like to speak to a traffic expert.
The new Allgaustrasse should be completed while the north span is being built
Even the closure of a relatively small road is likely to have a major impact on traffic: What will happen when the area for the construction of the north span turns into a major construction site for years to come from 2025?
In any case, according to Geisberger, the municipal utilities deliberately brought forward the work on Eichmühlstrasse so that it did not coincide with the Nordspangen work.
In order to keep the affected roads as efficient as possible during the Nordspangen construction period, the State Building Authority is planning a series of precautions, according to Herda.
This includes relocating Allgaustrasse before the remaining work begins.
This is intended to guarantee that traffic can flow across Allgaustraße during the construction of the Nordspangen.
“But it shouldn’t serve as a construction site bypass either,” says Herda.
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Another measure will be the construction of a bridge over the B472 for pedestrians and cyclists.
“This will be noticeable in the traffic light cycle times.”
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