Weisenauer Straße is an important traffic axis in downtown Rüsselsheim. In the meantime, she has become a racetrack for Poser in the night hours, and false parkers hinder bus traffic during the day. The city acts now and wants to redesign the Weisenauer Straße into a bicycle road. It is said to be an important part of the Rhein-Main-Radschnellweg. In the 1970s and 1980s there was still a lot going on on Weisenauer Straße. When Opel employees still worked in the Altwerk, they flocked to hundreds from the portals to change the shifts to get to the bus stops or trains at the train station. But the picture has now changed. Along the facades of the Opel Altwerk, the speed of your vehicles test at night. Delivery vans and especially city buses are then more common. The park markings and bans are constantly disregarded, sidewalks are parked. Hup concerts are the order of the day, the residents annoyed accordingly. For some time now there have been massive complaints from the residents who mostly give their anger air on social networks, write letters to the city administration and ask them to act. Inclusion and cycling rules had invited Mayor Patrick Burghardt (CDU) to an on -site appointment to which around 100 residents had come. They expressed their displeasure with the current states and made demands. Burghardt admitted that the city’s previous efforts had not been sufficient. The city now wants to finally become “master of the situation”, which is why in the future there should be a one -way regulation in the direction of travel between Mainzer Straße and Ludwigstraße, almost on the entire Weisenauer Straße, a bicycle road and for cars. This will make the street the first Rüsselsheim section of the speed of cycling between Mainz and Frankfurt. It is also part of the urban school cycling network and serves as a connection to the city center of primary school. More on the topic of the discussion, there were primarily concerns about residents of the parallel Mainzer Straße, which fear a shift in car traffic there. Traffic director Simon Valerius (independent) promised to look at the entire neighborhood in the new regulation of traffic. The aim is to improve the quality of life of the residents throughout the west of the city. Graduts are available from the project “Transform-R” initiated by the regional association Frankfurt/Rhein-Main and funded by the Federal Ministry of Research. This aims to promote the mobility and energy transition in the area. In addition to ecological aspects, the quality of life of the residents is in the foreground. In so -called test rooms, initial experience should be gained. Successful projects are then transferred to other municipalities. The regional association’s project partners are the Frankfurt Goethe University, the Institute for Social-Ecological Research and the Institute for Energy and Environmental Research.
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