Like hardly anywhere else in the city, streets in the Ludwigs- and Isarvorstadt are being calmed down and car parking spaces eliminated in favor of other uses, which makes the district an experimental field for the traffic turnaround – and the scene of heated debates. The official and elected supporters of the green-red majority course were now able to go home strengthened from the citizens’ meeting, where they received plenty of tailwind.
With 45 applications and six inquiries, active participation reached the usual level, the number of 110 participants was a little lower. However, the residents of the southern city center also had to make their way over to Neuhausen in the spacious sports hall on Kapschstraße, for the time being for the last time, as city councilor Anna Hanusch (Greens) promised as chair of the meeting. The approximately 4,500 residents of the southern station district, who were hit hard by another hot summer, still feel little of a greener, cleaner future. The meeting accepted a motion for bike lanes, shared space concepts and tree planting, if necessary in buckets, for Schillerstrasse, Landwehrstrasse and Goethestrasse with a correspondingly large majority – even if a lot had already happened, as a representative of the mobility department (MOR) protested.
The meeting granted the latest “Superblock” plans for the Gärtnerplatzviertel a large leap of faith. The idea imported from Barcelona of blocking an entire district for through traffic was wanted by a large majority to be extended to the Glockenbach and Dreimühlen districts. At the same time, the residents would be happy if the existing rules were observed and demanded more control for the entry ban on Corneliusstrasse. From the Gärtnerplatzrondell, taxis, buses and cyclists are not the only ones turning out of town, as actually prescribed.
The majority of those present are apparently counting on a car-free future
For a long time, politicians and traffic planners had received more than just applause at the “Glockenbach” triangle, around the Grüninsel, and on Fraunhoferstraße. Their residents again demanded delivery and holding zones with the majority of support. An understandable wish for the MOR, which at best promised new stopping areas “for Fraunhoferstrasse”, i.e. in its side streets. The critics of the Glockenbach project, on the other hand, had mobilized ten motions against the planned parking lot deletions and additional tree plantings, but they remained in the minority with significant defeats in the vote.
Only one other application, which called for the planned benches not to be placed directly in front of private apartments, went through. Those present made it clear that they also want to leave hardly any road space for e-cars: Rüdiger Clausius, who appeared in the spring as spokesman for the planning opponents, had suggested in an application that at least a supply network for future e-charging stations should be created during the conversion . The majority of those present, on the other hand, are apparently counting on a completely car-free future or on large central charging stations, even if these, as Clausius pointed out, are designed more for battery-damaging fast charging.
The fact that they not only support the concepts presented, but also want to bring in new ideas, was underlined by those gathered by voting with a large majority for the proposed “Munich arcades”. Under this title, the city could install wooden frames over sidewalks and roadsides and plant them with fast-growing, shade-giving hops or beanstalks. A “marketing thing” with charisma, not only found the applicant.