When the Geretsrieder Egerlandstraße is finished, the city wants 150 bollards to prevent drivers from brazenly parking their cars in “Wild West style”. Parking regulations or not, the idea of disfiguring the city’s new calling card with a forest of sticks so horrified the members of the city council’s building committee on Monday that they refused to approve it.
“I’m on strike,” Karin Schmid (CSU) said sternly, “that’s a half-baked thing for me.” According to Heidi Dodenhöft (Freie Wahler), he was even “in shock”https://www.sueddeutsche.de/muenchen/wolfratshausen/.”This mass makes the city center totally ugly, there has to be another solution”, she demanded. Patrik Kohlert (Geretsrieder Liste) also described such a large number of bollards as “incredibly ugly” and immediately made it clear: “I’m not going along with that.”
It was also of no use that City Planning Officer Rainer Goldstein wanted to force the vote in view of the long order deadlines. “We have to bollard through there, there’s no other way,” he worked hard for the stamps at a cost of 55,000 euros. He referred to a “small but unteachable” part of motorists, to whom one is otherwise “defencelessly at the mercy”.
Mayor Michael Müller (CSU) had already recognized that there would be no majority today. He therefore postponed a resolution, not without making the councils responsible. “I’m curious about your alternatives,” he said, and at the same time rejected suggestions that were supposedly more pleasing to the eye, such as concrete cubes reminiscent of “French menhirs” (O-Ton Müller) or flower pots that are difficult to care for. Ultimately, it will come down to bollards to keep disobedient drivers in check, he predicted. “Don’t kid yourself, without clear rules we have the Wild West.” That has already come true at Karl-Lederer-Platz.
After all, Goldstein was allowed to order 160 new signs for 25,000 euros – stop, park, give way signs, whatever you need to control traffic in and around the new town center. A particularly long and cumbersome dead-end sign for the Martin-Luther-Weg aroused the amusement of the councilors and earned the comment that the length of reading would certainly result in a traffic jam.
During the meeting, Mayor Müller announced the further timetable for the Egerlandstraße. Because the asphalt work was not finished on time due to scheduling difficulties, the construction site had to go on winter break and was given a site fence. Due to the temperatures, the completion of the road can only continue in spring and should then be completed by the end of June.
However, the Egerlandstrasse will be opened up for pedestrians punctually on December 16th. On March 9th, Aldi and Rossmann, who are moving into the new residential and commercial building of the Geretsried building cooperative (BG), open their doors. And the underground car park should also be passable. There is already a date for the official opening of the Egerlandstraße, namely at the beginning of the forest summer with its parade. “Anything other than July is unrealistic,” said Müller. Then cars are allowed again. For the end of July/beginning of August, the conversion of Karl-Lederer-Platz into the pedestrian zone and the conversion of the bus lines are planned.