Dresden. The number of accidents on Dresden’s Elbe Cycle Route is increasing. While the city is thinking about expanding the paths for pedestrians and cyclists and planning a parallel path, there is now a different idea.
The AfD in the Dresden city council calls for a strict speed limit for cyclists because pedestrians feel “threatened” by them.
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The city should examine how a speed limit for cyclists can be introduced and enforced on the Elberadweg, the AfD requests in an application. The aim is to reduce the number of accidents caused by “disproportionate speed”. “The maximum speed to be observed for bicycles should not exceed 15 kilometers per hour”, so the specific demand.
In addition, the city is to present a plan how “through restrictions imposed by structural systems for speed reduction and traffic calming for bicycle traffic”, cyclists can be forced to drive slowly – at least at the accident blackspots.
AfD: “Cyclists are mainly to blame”
“I read in the Sächsische Zeitung that the number of accidents on the Elbe Cycle Path has increased,” said AfD parliamentary group leader Wolf Hagen Braun. Because there are more and more injured people, the application will now be submitted.
For the AfD there is a clear answer to the question of guilt: “One of the main causes lies in the disproportionate speed and reckless behavior of cyclists,” said Braun. “This leads to more accidents, especially between cyclists, but now also to an increasing number of accidents between pedestrians and cyclists. Pedestrians on the Elbe Cycle Path are increasingly feeling their sense of security threatened by racing cyclists as shown by the beaten path parallel to the Elbe Cycle Path. “
The Green Councilor Susanne Krause rates the proposal as “not very effective”. You know and experience the problems too. “But speed limits cannot be enforced and cannot be controlled.”
Krause finds structural changes to slow down cyclists even worse. “There are problems especially when there is a lot going on, mainly on weekends. If chicanes are built in, the entire rush hour traffic that is on the Elbe Cycle Path early in the week and everyday traffic stop and start again and again got to.” That could not be a solution if the goal was that more Dresdeners should cover longer distances by bike.
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