Munich builds more bike paths – automobile club shows new statistics

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Munich creates parking for more bike paths – automobile club shows new statistics

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dpa / lukas barth / dpa Where the place is not enough on the roadway, it also does the sidewalk: A cyclist is traveling in Munich on the sidewalk.

As part of the so-called road turns, much more people should change to the wheel. Michael Haberland from the automotive club mobile in Germany holds this for a bill debate: the real wheel share in the traffic performance is tiny.

The city of Munich wants to become a bicycle city and creates more and more parking spaces. As the "Evening News" Reported for new wider bike paths various lanes for cars and 700 parking spaces. A corporate decision supported the anti-car policy of the city. Green and bicycle associations such as the ADFC welcome: As part of the so-called road transition, more cycling. In addition, wider cyclists stripes increased security.

How big is traffic performance of cycling?

However, not all Munich people believe that car traffic is to be pushed back in favor of cycling. Your counter-arguments: There are now even more traffic jams with narrower streets – and significantly more parking. Residents who could then no longer park their cars fight against the transformation plans. Michael Haberland from the automotive club "Mobile in Germany" Criticizes the city sharp: "Political decisions for mobility need a computational basis and must not be made out of the stomach. Only because it may sound nice. The mobility of a city must be oriented to reality", So Haberland.

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Mobile in Germany How big is the role of cycling? Measured to the personal kilometers rather small, as the example of Munich shows

Only three percent of traffic performance by bicycle

The automobile club has with a traffic counting and statistical data – among other things, the club of 10.000 annually kilometers driven in the urban area for each of the 720.Cars approved in Munich – an estimate published, including commuter traffic from eleven billion people kilometers per year. In contrast, 7.5 billion personal kilometers would be at bus and train; But only 0.5 billion in the means of transport bicycle. You have calculated with 200.000 cyclists a day at 250 days a year and average kilometers traveled per day.

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Google Maps / Site Old Town Radlring and planned traffic-calmed areas in Munich

"Cycling traffic is important and absolutely entitled to the environmental and climate discussion. But to force the motorists of the city millions of hours in the traffic jam to take advantage of valuable leisure and lifetime and straighten older people and young families are certainly not the right way", Means Michael Haberland.

"We set the wish of many Munich"

Business people also weigh between the opportunities and risks of the anti-auto-auto strategy. Bernd Ohlmann, Press Offer of the Trade Association Bavaria, showed in the summer at the first idea of the plans: "The fact that certain passages will be traffic-calmed, the attractiveness rises to these locations. But this can cause an increase in rents, which can no longer pay the owners of the small shops", So Ohlmann to Site.

The Green Munchner Lord Mayor Candidate Katrin have shaded the Radl policy covered by a majority: "We are doing very well the wish of many Munich around", Such damage to "Evening News". Munich Munich Mayor Dieter Reiter (SPD) is for the conversion of the city to the bicycle metropolis. He expects other conflicts and protests.

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4 thoughts on “Munich builds more bike paths – automobile club shows new statistics”

  1. This only leads to more shops on the outskirts
    I live on the outskirts of Hamburg. In Hamburg parking is reduced, for that … the shops outside Hamburg always full. Pair of kilometers away behind the city limits there are enough parking spaces in front of the shops and every year there will be full there. In Hamburg’s city center, it is only the Christmas season as full as 30 years ago on normal days. In Hamburg’s city center you can hardly see customers in the shops in the morning. More and more tourists with road maps / smartphone in hand on the streets. I myself prefer to buy outside of Hamburg. There you have fewer problems to find a parking lot. In the business street in my district more parking needed. Therefore, few parking spaces were taken away.

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  2. A credible "study"
    Each car approved in Munich drives just under 10.000 km in Munich Plus of shuttle traffic of the surrounding villages and cities. The overall result is thus 11 billion car kilometers. Dear Focus, do you ever mean what that would mean on a road network of 2.330 km?

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  3. urban planning
    A urban planning out of the stomach is certainly not functional, but instead must be based on actual needs. It already makes sense to abolish parking bottles. Driving car becomes unattractive and more expensive. It is important to expand public transport. I drive yourself every day with the bike or local traffic to work and almost daily colleagues about the traffic jam and the parking search. If only people would have their car, which only use it for a few kilometers of pure convenience, would have already been achieved. Therefore, I am also for City toll and the income subsidized by the revenue. This holds cars from the cities, one reduces nitrogen oxides, saves time and promotes climate-neutral locomotion.

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  4. @ Stefan Schranz
    Have no desire to get up at 4 o’clock in the morning. To go to work with the bike or bus in wind and weather. Since I prefer to sleep 40 minutes longer and drive with the car to work. I did that a summer, but as soon as it got colder I did not feel like it anymore.

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