The city administration estimates a whole three-quarters of an hour as a rough number for the presentation of the overall traffic study and the debate about the next steps. It takes five minutes for the city’s statement on the northern access route to the Brenner Pass, and ten minutes for the city’s planned entry into the operator GmbH of the senior citizens’ home. Just for comparison.
But even with a few encores, the range would still be reasonable. When the city council meets on Tuesday evening, it is about nothing less than the start of a transport policy for decades: whether Grafing will create traffic calming for its market square – or will the task fail?
The experts recommend three measures
The traffic planners from the Munich Obermeyer Group, which claims to be one of the largest independent planning companies in the country, are of the opinion that it is possible. However, larger operations in the form of three traffic bypasses close to the center are necessary.
Firstly, this concerns the garden road, which would have to be expanded to such a function. Additionally equipped with a passage between the former post office and the former Hut-Mayr building, traffic could flow from Glonner Strasse directly into Bahnhofstrasse without going through the market square. The proposal is not new. But for the first time, a scientific study has confirmed that Grafing would have to say goodbye to the calming of the marketplace without him.
Gartenstraße could be expanded into a traffic bypass close to the city centre.
(Photo: Christian Endt)
Conversely, the bypass opens up the possibility of removing an entire lane on the western side of the market square. Namely those from the town hall heading north into Bahnhofstrasse. However, the traffic planners are skeptical about the planned closure of the second lane as well.
Traffic could become a problem elsewhere once the market square has calmed down
The proposal for the marketplace would have the greatest relief effect. But then probably so much traffic would flow through Gartenstrasse that a traffic light would be needed at the junction with Glonner Strasse. However, this would significantly increase the risk of long tailbacks – as is well known, there is also the pedestrian crossing in front of the evangelical church. The building committee, which dealt with the traffic study last week, therefore recommends that the city council not pursue this plan any further.
Secondly, the traffic experts propose an extension of the Oberanger to the north as a somewhat upstream bypass. Via Jahnstraße, the breakthrough would then also meet Bahnhofstraße or Ebersberger Straße in the direction of Grafing Bahnhof at about Goldberg height.
Thirdly, the northern Aiblinger Straße would need to be relocated to the west, which the city council called: Aiblinger Spange. Instead of going around the new development area and the Aldi supermarket in an easterly arc, “St 2089” would turn north at about the level of the Sanftlring and meet Glonner Straße near the Hammerschmiede. The state road would then no longer lead through the market square, but via Grafing train station and Nettelkofen to the so-called western bypass, previously known as the “EBE 8” district road.
If the through traffic is outside, the Grafinger center can be calmed down
According to the traffic planners, if the three points were implemented, nothing would stand in the way of a gradation of “St 2089” on the market square to the local road. Then Grafing could decide the actual step on his own, namely the “conversion of the marketplace to a traffic-calmed business area (Tempo 20)”.
Incidentally, the six years between the decision of the city council and the result of the traffic investigation are not related to sleepiness in the engineering office or in the Grafinger town hall: due to numerous road construction works in recent years, valid traffic counts could rarely be carried out. The roundabout in Schammach was built, then the “EBE 8” between Nettelkofen and See Schneid was renewed, and finally the canal network was built in Wiesham over a period of two years. The effects of the 30 km/h speed limit imposed in Griesstrasse and Rosenheimer Strasse had to be taken into account in the overall investigation.
The meeting is open to the public and will begin at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, October 4 in the Council Room at City Hall.