According to Norbert Herrmann’s ideas, cyclists should have priority in the narrow old town of Zell. Can this be implemented?
For about six years now, the main road in Zell has only been allowed to be used by residents. Even if not everyone observes this, the traffic due to the narrow old town may have been reduced as a result. According to information from the town hall, there are no official measurements available. Now the local Bund Naturschutz (BN) wants to go one step further and have the main road identified as a bicycle road. That would have pilot character in the Wrzburg district. So far, such cycle streets have only existed in the city, and only recently.
Norbert Herrmann, chairman of the Zeller BN local group, had submitted a corresponding application to the market community at the end of August. The administration then switched on various bodies. Because a bicycle lane that the BN would like to see between the entrance to the town on the Laurentiusbrcke and the fire station over a length of about 1.2 kilometers could have consequences: “We want the buses to continue to run through the Zeller Ort Feedback from the operator is crucial for us, “says Mayor Joachim Kipke (Zeller Mitte-Freie Whler). Local transport companies could be deterred by the priority and increasing number of bicycle traffic. Especially since the long main road has many bottlenecks.
–
It is also important to Herrmann that the buses continue to run through town. “You just have to come up with resourceful solutions, and that succeeds if you only want to.” The environmental protector sees the conditions for a bicycle road through Zell as given. “The main road is only allowed to be used by residents anyway, and there is a speed limit of 30 km / h,” notes Herrmann and adds: “Because in most places you cannot overtake a cyclist at a minimum distance of 1.5 meters can, in fact nothing would change. ”
Bicycle club supports the request
The bicycle club ADFC Wrzburg supports the request. “The bicycle road promotes inner-city bicycle traffic in Zell and also offers a socially safe and flood-free alternative to the bicycle path on the Main,” says a recently sent message.
Herrmann would also be happy if there was an alternative to the Main Cycle Path through the town. This encourages tourists to drive to individual places on the main route, “to visit the tourist sights, to use the infrastructure such as drinking water wells and charging stations or to support local shops or restaurants,” he said.
–
Mayor Kipke is still reluctant, “because the tunnels under the state road and the access roads to the main road are narrow and sometimes very confusing. These would have to be expanded if the cycle path were to be rerouted”. He also emphasizes that the main street is the only way of access by car for the Altort residents, but also for facilities such as the school.
An alternative might be to install a cycle path parallel to the state road on the town side. “There, too, cyclists will pass many attractions such as the Vershnungskirche and the Gasthaus zur Rose,” says Kipke. The problem with this is that the Zell market would still have to acquire quite a few pieces of land for this.
A winter cycle path network for Zell
It remains to be seen whether the bicycle road would be the first to be implemented in the district. Another point from Herrmann’s proposal, on the other hand, could be immediately successful, the implementation of the winter bike route. “More and more commuters use their bikes to get to work in winter too. That is why the city has created a network of winter cycle paths,” explains Herrmann.
In winter, however, it was last interrupted between the city limits on the Main meadows and the Zeller Bridge. As Herrmann explains, there is a special, environmentally friendly granulate for this purpose, which is not applied acutely, but prophylactically before the onset of snowfall. Kipke confirms this on request and assured that this will be used in the coming winter. From the Laurentiusbrcke, cyclists should then be able to ride through the Zeller Altort in the direction of Margetshchheim in snow and ice.
–
-
Zell
-
Jrg Rieger
-
General German Bicycle Club
-
Mayor and Lord Mayor
-
Joachim Kipke
-
Market towns
-
natural reserve
-
Omnibuses
-
Bicycle traffic
-
Bike paths
-
Stdte
-
Environmental protector
-
Environmental sustainability
-
traffic
-
Wrzburg traffic
–
