Valleystrasse and Oberländerstrasse in Sendling are not very suitable as access roads for a large company with round-the-clock deliveries. Nevertheless, for the time being, residents will have to expect truck traffic even late at night and on weekends. The truck’s destination is not the wholesale market, the entrance to which is further east on Schäftlarnstrasse, but a branch of the internationally active Belgian fruit and vegetable wholesaler Greenyard on Thalkirchner Strasse, between the triangle of the former sorting facility and the railway underpass.
With all understanding for early delivery dates, the noise pollution borders on bodily harm, reports resident Hilmar Kinnert and speaks for many of his neighbors. Truck traffic has been increasing for a good three years, but above all in the past few months. Since the main route via Oberländerstraße has been blocked by two construction sites, almost all trucks have taken the route via Valleystraße and Gotzinger Platz, past the schools there and also over loud, roaring cobblestones, the new, bike-friendly grouting of which is being ruined by the trucks.
To the north, via Lagerhausstrasse, the Greenyard site cannot be approached either because of the low railway underpass. At first glance, the problem can be solved simply by reopening the old west entrance to the wholesale market area by the sorting facility and driving the trucks in a direct line via Schäftlarnstrasse. The municipal wholesale market operator Markthallen München has been offering this alternative for over a year, but only in one-way traffic to the west, as the statics of the large, aging storage cellars under the market halls are already reaching their limits.
Residents have already logged truck trips on Sunday night
Even the compromise variant with access via the market area and exit via Oberländerstraße or Valleystraße practically does not work, as the market halls require a toll for crossing their premises and must do so according to the fee statute. At least that’s how the local authority explains it. The alternative may not only come to nothing for cost reasons: According to the authorities, the gate is manned by a porter Monday to Friday from 6 a.m. to 12 p.m. – however, Kinnert residents have already logged truck trips on Sundays at one or two o’clock at night.
In the meantime, the Sendling district committee had hoped that the problem would be resolved by the middle of the decade. The Greenyard group had signaled that it wanted to give up its Sendlinger location, which was already wasted due to a new delivery cooperation with Rewe, it said. Politically, there is no solution in sight for the time being: The mobility department does not meet the demands of the district representatives to close the Oberländer-, Valley-, Kyrein- and Wackersberger Straße from Implerstraße to trucks, because they only “daily in total” few trucks “pose no risk. In addition, the Greenyard site must remain accessible via public roads for legal reasons.
Ultimately, the truck lock would also cut other delivery traffic, for example to the numerous restaurants. For similar reasons, and in order to keep the direct connection open after the end of the construction site, the department also rejects the east-west one-way regulation for Oberländer Straße applied for by the district committee. At best, parking spaces could be omitted there in order to create more space for oncoming traffic.