As of: March 16, 2024, 1:38 p.m
By: Peter Schiebel
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Traffic in Gilching should improve.
The municipality is now asking what citizens think about it (picture from a diversion a few months ago).
© Photographer: Andrea Jaksch
All more than 11,000 households in Gilching will receive mail from the municipality in the next few weeks.
This involves taking part in the survey on the mobility concept.
The more Gilchingers take part, the more meaningful the results are.
Gilching
– Work on the mobility concept for Gilching is picking up speed.
On Friday, in a press release, the municipality pointed out for the first time the planned survey of all Gilching households on the topic, which was also recently discussed in the municipal council's environmental committee.
“This survey is essential for us,” says Mayor Manfred Walter in an interview with Starnberger Merkur and asks for active participation.
After the Easter holidays, at the beginning of April, all more than 11,000 households will receive a letter from the municipality.
It contains information about the survey as well as access data for every person aged six and over registered in the household in order to be able to access the questionnaire digitally.
They should provide information about the routes they took in Gilching on a specific day, for example by car to work, by bike to see friends, on foot to go shopping or by bus to the train station.
For children, their legal guardians are asked to help fill it out.
Two deadlines were selected, as project engineer Anna-Marie Wilhelm from the commissioned planning office, the Bernard Group from Munich, explains upon request.
Half of the households should provide all data for April 18th - the other half for April 23rd.
“Tuesday and Thursday are the most representative days for such surveys,” explains Wilhelm.
Data should help the local council make decisions
There should also be the opportunity to take part in the survey in the traditional way - whether by post, in the town hall or through another option is currently still being voted on, says the project engineer.
All data would be collected and processed anonymously.
Participation is of course voluntary.
“The local government is asking all residents to take a few minutes to take part in the survey.
Your views are crucial in developing an integrated mobility concept that is not only efficient but also livable,” the municipality writes in its statement.
This involves path relationships, traffic control, redesigns and the like.
The results of the household survey are an essential basis for the local council's decision, explains Manfred Walter.
Data on motorized traffic around Gilching was already collected last year - using, among other things, license plate recording and short interviews.
This would also provide information about through traffic, says Walter.
The results of these investigations have not yet been published.
They would also be incorporated into the mobility concept.
“Now it’s about: How does our own population behave?” The community writes: “Together we can take a path that is not only environmentally friendly, but also forward-looking,” says the community.