Trucks have not been allowed to drive through Bergsonstraße in Obermenzing for a long time. For the past five years, the speed limit has also been 30 km/h from the “An der Langwieder Haide” junction. Both are successes of the “Alte Allee/Bergsonstraße” interest group, whose stakeholders have been working for more than 20 years to curb through traffic on their streets as much as possible . But now construction is going on in the immediate vicinity of the residential area, north of Jaspersallee the new quarter on Dreilingsweg is to be built with 950 apartments, a high school and local amenities. The interest group fears that this will increase through traffic again.
Today it is already 60 percent, because many commuters from the districts of Augsburg, Fürstenfeldbruck and Dachau use Bergsonstrasse and Alte Allee as a shortcut. “The development area is currently planned in such a way that no internal passage is possible for residents’ vehicles, but only for buses,” says the club’s chairman, Helmut Rothballer. This “internal traffic calming” creates “an unnecessary bypass traffic of around 1,200 car trips per day” in the neighboring Bergsonstraße to the south. For example, if the driver of a car parked in the west wants to go east to Verdistrasse or to Pasing, he has to bypass the settlement via Bergsonstrasse.
The only solution from the point of view of the interest group: the opening of the district square for private cars, “and only for residents, to avoid additional external through traffic”. Rothballer and his comrades-in-arms expressly welcome the currently planned, pivoted route of the west-east passage and the narrow street. Because this makes the route unattractive for strangers. But does the interest group read the plans correctly?
The planning and mobility department is trying to put the concerns of the residents into perspective. “In the invitation to the urban planning competition, the participants in the competition were free to decide whether the new connection through the residential area on Dreilingsweg is only accessible for means of transport in the environmental network, i.e. for pedestrians, cyclists and local public transport, or also for motorized private transport,” explains Thorsten Vogel from the planning department. The winning design currently enables both. Now it must be “examined in the further process” which variant is “realizable”.
The residents are also anything but enthusiastic about the planned expansion of the Alte Allee/Bergsonstrasse junction. Such a project, they are certain, “would only attract more through traffic.” Instead, “traffic control measures” are required and, if these are not sufficient, the connection of Mühlangerstraße to the A8 motorway. The latter, according to the mobility department, will be “of course” checked “in due course” in connection with further replanning of the Freilandstraße industrial park or the residential area north-east of the A8 motorway.
However, the administration does not want to comment on the design of the node, since the traffic report that has to be prepared as part of the development plan process is not yet available. In any case, a mobility concept should be developed. The goal: “to make the means of transport in the environmental network more attractive and thereby reduce motor vehicle traffic”. Public participation is expected to start in the middle of the year, when the critics will also have a formal opportunity to express themselves.