The city of Munich must expect another lawsuit from the German Environmental Aid (DUH) and the German Traffic Club (VCD). On Wednesday, the city council decided at the request of the SPD to release nursing staff and shift workers by general decree from the driving ban on certain diesel cars that has been in force since Wednesday. You no longer have to apply for an individual exemption. This means that they are no longer obliged to prove whether they are...
They would have almost turned the handle of the district court if they had appeared: Hasan Salihamidžić, sports director at FC Bayern, and ex-Bayern kicker Jérôme Boateng were to answer one after the other in court for administrative offenses on Wednesday. Both had been driving their cars too fast in Munich. And Boateng also had his cell phone to his ear while driving, as can be seen in the speed camera photo.However: Both did not appear and were sentenced to...
In order to finally improve the air quality in the city, Munich is blocking older vehicles from the city center. The regulation applies from this Wednesday - but there are many exceptions. What drivers should know.from Andrew SchubertThe first stage of the diesel driving ban comes into force this Wednesday, February 1st. The ban applies to the environmental zone within the Mittlerer Ring as well as to the Ring itself, with the exception of the Brudermühl Bridge. If the pollutant...
They get lost in the undergrowth, run under concrete slabs or gravel walls, lead into workshops and commercial yards. They end at a forgotten buffer stop or at the red and white striped railings of former crossings: like the delta, disused or extremely rarely used railway tracks run through the district of Obersendling and its immediate vicinity.Discovering these relics of the industrial age and decoding their systematics is the initial task of the newly founded history workshop in Munich-South. A...
The first stage of the diesel driving ban will apply from this Wednesday. This means that anyone who does not fall under the exception regulations is no longer allowed to drive into the environmental zone, including the Mittlerer Ring, with a diesel vehicle in emission class Euro 4/IV.The CSU member of parliament Robert Brannekamper and his party colleague Michael Haberland, who is also president of the automobile club "Mobil in Deutschland", do not want to accept the ban. They have...
In order to finally improve the air quality in the city, Munich is blocking older vehicles from the city center. The regulation applies from this Wednesday - but there are many exceptions. What drivers should know.from Andrew SchubertThe first stage of the diesel driving ban comes into force this Wednesday, February 1st. The ban applies to the environmental zone within the Mittlerer Ring as well as to the Ring itself, with the exception of the Brudermühl Bridge. If the pollutant...
A 25-year-old man from Munich raced through the city on Thursday at up to 140 kilometers per hour, fleeing a traffic police patrol. They wanted to check the man around 10 p.m. on Belgrade Street because the exhaust of his Porsche Panamera was roaring too loudly. But the man accelerated and ran several red lights.When he was stopped in Milbertshofen, he tried to switch places with his 40-year-old passenger. Because the man refused to open the door, the officers smashed...
The German Weather Service (DWD) warns of black ice for the area of the state capital Munich on Friday morning. The warning initially applies until 6 p.m. in the evening. The strongest is to be expected with smoothness until 9 a.m.The DWD advises avoiding spending time outdoors. In addition, severe disruptions to traffic are to be expected. The DWD advises "adapting behavior on the road". Light drizzle is currently exacerbating the situation.Slippery roads can also be expected in other areas...
Cyclists are apparently never really satisfied. Now, in winter, the outrage portal Twitter is again overflowing with photos of poorly cleared bike paths, along with correspondingly salty comments. And if there is a good example of a cleanly cleared cycle path, as a tweet from Monday of this week from Plinganserstraße in Munich shows, there is guaranteed to be someone with a lousy counterexample.Whether it's storming or snowing or black ice is turning the streets into slides: Many people can't...
A 74-year-old Munich resident is in mortal danger after a collision with a tram. As the police announced on Wednesday, the man suffered an open craniocerebral trauma and probably other internal injuries in the accident. According to the first findings of the traffic police, the man obviously overlooked a tram on line 20 going towards the city center when he wanted to cross Dachauer Straße in Moosach at around 11.45 a.m. on Tuesday. There the tracks run in the middle...
