traffic calming on the savage street again issue in Emlichheim From
Grafschafter news from 01.03.2008
residents are demanding more security 
Troop road will be narrowed to one or more points. 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 application of an applied the creek road to traffic calming measures in only 75 feet long rejected the settlement road building and property committee, however on Thursday. since Emlichheim. The security on the streets is a constant theme 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 who should bear the main road (B 403) crossing. On the other hand, there are a number of primary school children, 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 by pressing a button one.
Horst Draeger (SPD) and Hermann Borg Horst (GBF) were at the meeting further and called for a dark traffic lights at the junction of Wild Street, plus a dark or a so-called Anfahrampel at the mouth "Westerhook. The latter only switched to green when a vehicle approaches. In the opinion of management, there is however only the chance of a dark light. Because as the site of both the mouth come the savage street as well as 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 before two years, the classification as a local road to get to local significance. 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 further narrowing in 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
rejected calls by the Committee 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 kilometers per hour, Building Department Director reported Friedrich Baart. In addition, the road was planned already traffic calmed. 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 in her residential area "cradles" along with some Neighbours had raised the speeders from the settlement directly. The same approach they also advised the residents of the river road.
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