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“Attention School” was written on the “yellow fluorescent” signs that the Tutzing community had put up and now had to remove. © Andrea Jaksch
The municipality of Tutzing had to remove yellow “Attention School” signs - the Ministry of the Interior intervened. This prompted one father to write an open letter.
Tutzing - Sometimes a community acts very pragmatically and unbureaucratically - and then it is thwarted from above: This message is conveyed by Traubinger Thomas Geiger in an open letter to the Bavarian Ministry of the Interior, to Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann personally, to the Starnberg police and the district office . The topic: the yellow warning signs with the inscription “Attention School”, which the municipality of Tutzing had to remove in front of the elementary and middle schools in Tutzing and the elementary school in Traubing. The reason: For those “yellow fluorescent carrier boards” an exemption is required, which the Ministry of the Interior only grants under special circumstances.
Thomas Geiger, whose daughter attends Traubinger elementary school, was really annoyed by the process. “I urge you, Mr. Minister: send a signal of common sense, initiate a new examination and work towards the granting of the special permit,” he writes in his letter. “There is no justification for weakening the signal effect of these special colors, and there is definitely a special situation in school areas. We cannot afford to lose trust in our state and local institutions - not to mention the tax waste. Every drop and every cent counts.”
It was simply done - something that citizens today can no longer imagine. No expert reports, no approval madness, no working groups, no citizens' requests.
Thomas Geiger in his open letter
Last year, at the urging of parents, the community put up the signs that were obvious to drivers. What impressed Geiger: “It was simply done – something that people today can no longer imagine. No expert reports, no approval madness, no working groups, no citizens’ requests.”
But now the signs are gone again - and several officials and community employees have dealt with the issue. Geiger thinks it’s completely unnecessary. “For me, the open letter was about red tape.” He said he had not yet received a response to it, he told the Starnberger Merkur.
Mayor: There will be another solution
After all, Tutzing's mayor Ludwig Horn promises that there will be another solution. “We hope that we can achieve the same effect with signs that we get approved.” In the best case scenario, even with those that the municipality has purchased - and which are then only covered with a non-yellow film. The community spent around 16,000 euros on it, and according to Horn, that's just the material costs, not to mention the working hours. The mayor says the matter is a high priority. So the joint search for a solution with the district office and the police.
Thomas Geiger was speechless when he made two sentences in a press release from the town hall. It said that the municipality only checked after the special signs had been put up whether they were absolutely necessary. That's why the ministry didn't agree. All because of a formal error? Mayor Horn denies this: “It was all about the fluorescent yellow.”
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