Now bike racks for the Gaga bike path
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OfDennis Pfeiffer-Goldman
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Thomas Remelin
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City government goes one better in Marbachweg
Frankfurt-The city started the next stage in the expansion of the Gaga cycle path in Marbachweg on Thursday. Construction workers installed bicycle racks on the edge of the significantly widened cycle path at house numbers 331 to 345.
Residents informed the mayor Friedrich Hesse (CDU) in the morning that the work in the Dornbusch had started. The city had previously stated in an information sheet that was distributed to residents on Tuesday that bicycle racks are to be installed here. Wolfgang Siefert, personal advisor and designated successor to the head of the mobility department, Stefan Majer (Greens), explained this in this newspaper on Wednesday.
Local residents reacted to the fact that the city was now putting up the bicycle racks. Because where the bars are now, cars were parked until a few weeks ago. For decades, the path next to the road was divided into longitudinal parking spaces, a cycle path running next to it and a wide footpath.
Mayor: The city creates facts
According to the city, following complaints from cyclists, the city had re-asphalted the parking lot and the cycle path because of potholes. The parking spaces were then not signposted again – because the space was too small to create a door opening zone to the cycle path. With one exception: While 16 normal parking spaces were eliminated, one disabled parking space was recently marked again, including a complex bypass for cyclists.
Yesterday’s construction of the bicycle racks is now finally driving the residents up the wall, reports the mayor of Hesse. And him too: he had just made an appointment with the traffic authority for March 10th. “Now the city creates facts beforehand,” says Hesse Sauer. “That quickly becomes contempt for the local council and residents.”
Topic not intrusive for Parliament
Nobody has anything against the cycle path at this point, but the cycle path and parking spaces have peacefully coexisted since then, the mayor reminds. “It’s about the way you treat people.”
The head of the mobility department, Majer, defended the structure of the bicycle racks: “For safety reasons, both are not possible at the same time”, including parking and cycling. In principle, this is not a question that can be discussed politically: “My lower road traffic authority said that this was necessary for safety reasons, and I am strengthening it.” That can benefit the department, and that’s exactly what will happen at the on-site appointment, Stefan Majer announces.
Like his speaker Siefert, he admits that communication with the residents did not go well. However, the local advisory board had already been informed about the Hesse mayor at the end of January.
In the early Thursday afternoon, the Gaga cycle path then also occupied the city councilors in the elders’ committee. The CDU parliamentary group in Römer had submitted an emergency application to restore the original condition with the parking spaces instead of creating a fait accompli. “It excites people,” said CDU faction leader Nils Kößler. “They are partly stunned.”
The structural change was not communicated, instead the residents were confronted with the new legal situation through a wave of traffic tickets. The aim must be to restore the parking spaces. Frankfurt is in the process of gaining nationwide awareness, warns Kößler. The CDU faction leader accuses the Greens, SPD, FDP and Volt.
The parliamentary group leader of the left, Michael Müller, supported the Roman coalition: “We have to rededicate the parking spaces,” he demanded. However, the CDU urgent application did not make it onto the agenda of the city council meeting in the afternoon – it missed the necessary majority. SPD parliamentary group leader Ursula Busch gave the CDU advance the cold shoulder: “The anger of the residents is relevant, but not urgent.” Thomas Remlein,
Dennis Pfeiffer-Goldman