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residents are demanding more security

From Grafschafter news from 01.03.2008

residents are demanding more security

traffic calming on the road again Wilde topic should be narrowed to one or more points in Emlichheim

Troop street. In addition, with a traffic count location to another, so-called dark traffic lights on the main street (B 403) on the western edge are determined. The request of a Anli

since Emlichheim. The security on the streets is a perennial issue in Emlichheim. Having been placed recently on the ring road and the railway station and road outside the town hall on the main road traffic lights, now puts the safety on the western edge of town in the center of public interest. On Thursday, about 20 residents from the area Wilde Street / Huskamp had come into the house Ringer Brüggen, to report to the members of the Building and Land Committee of their concerns.

Whether the school center, to riding or tennis or just for walking: If you want to get into Emlichheim towards Vechte, the need to cross the main street (B 403). On the other hand, there are a number of primary school pupils, the busy main corridor in the north to the school at the Berlin street must cross. But on the western edge there is as yet no safe transition.

Ten years ago, had been counted transport, pedestrian and bicycle traffic. At that time did the number of pedestrians and cyclists for a traffic light is not sufficient, reported the former parish director Herbert Eggengoor. Today there is the possibility, however, be placed in the road at the expense of the municipality a so-called dark light. Of which there are already three in Emlichheim. The traffic lights are activated only one click.

Horst Draeger (SPD) and Hermann Borg Horst (GBF) were at the meeting further and called for a dark traffic lights at the junction Wilde Street and in addition there is a dark or a so-called Anfahrampel at the mouth "Westerhook. The latter only switches to green when a vehicle approaches. According to the administration, it however, only the chance of a dark light. As a more attractive location of the mouth come Wilde Street and the "Westerhook" in question is now to find a traffic count the best location. Just as

agree on this point, the committee members were also the subject of road safety on the Wild. The road has two years being classified as local road with more than local Significance obtained. The reason: First of all farmers from the area Echteler use the road to go through the enhanced after Vechtebrücke Emlichheim. These often come to empyreumatic situations, where the big tractors and trailers met another vehicle and told the residents. Also, some tractor stopped and motorists not to the prescribed maximum speed of 50 kilometers per hour.

The administration presented at the hearing before the plan for a road narrows to 3.50 meters in the form of an S-curve in the amount of the playground. In the view of GBF-councilman Borghorst narrowing however, not sufficient. He called for further narrowing of one or two places the savage street. After a lengthy discussion of exclusion finally gave an appropriate design contract to the Administration. recited with the farmers from Echteler, that concerns the local association chairman Berthold hints link is to be said about the optimal size of the restriction.

A rejection of the committee gave Mr. Wolfgang God. The residents had called the brook street, the community may be using the only 75-meter-long residential street planters, slowing the speeders. Speed measurements would have resulted in less than ten percent of vehicles exceeding the speed limit of 30 mph, reported Building Authority director Frederick Baar link. In addition, whether the road was already planned through traffic. More traffic calming measures could cause additional noise pollution for residents through increased braking and acceleration of the cars.

The representatives of the CDU, SPD and FDP refused the request. "There are almost always the residents who drive too fast," said as Jan Venne Gert's (CDU). SPD Councilman Dräger recalled that at a speed measurement in the range Haselaar / Pommernweg more than 80 percent of breaches of local residents had been committed. reported and municipality director Daniela Köster that they directly addressed in their residential area "cradles" along with some neighbors, the speedster from the settlement have. The same approach they also advised the residents of the river road.




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