is 500 meters long, the Annoyance, this is a trace of Frusts. The Lucerne Road. A main road through the heart of Kriens, built with stone mastic, Asphalt, to swallow the noise. Dominik Hertach can laugh about it. “This stone mastic is for the foxes – he doesn’t even feel the noise-reinforcing,” he says. He speaks from experience. He lives here. The alarm values were regularly exceeded. “Clearly,” says Hertach. A strong car can reach well over 80 decibels. This is, as you would listen to a wood milling machine.
Hertach is the 500 meters, passing two tractors, three vans, and an almost uncountable amount of cars. He puts in a plea against the street noise, as a Vierzigtönner over thunders, and to Silence him. “Sometimes you can hardly stand it,” he says. Hertach has a Problem that he shares with his neighbors. He can’t sleep. He wants to change and asks why the speed limit is 30 on the main road – however, the Canton of Lucerne winds.
Along the Swiss main roads, there is no emotional issue than pace of 30. In Zurich, Basel and Bern, but also in Knutwil, Bürglen or Kriens. Left want to slow down the pace. Civil to no price. And the Problem is likely to accentuate. The national road network will be expanded, politicians are dreaming of the incident in Saxony in the cities, Agglomeration is used to transport political crumple zone of the country.
jam, jam, jam
Hertach, who belongs to no party, lives right street at the Lucerne. You cut the Lucerne suburb and directs daily for 20’000 vehicles through them. It also means: plenty of storage. In the morning and in the evening. The 500 meters to a place of waiting. The 49-Year-old says that 30 kph is the solution for downtime and noise. The Canton does not find the. Hertach is examining a lawsuit against the Canton. He has collected 600 signatures. For an attractive Kriens, for a promenade. Hertach takes to the road a small cafe. “Tempo 30 would be of benefit to the industry,” he says.
SVP national councillor Gregor Rutz carries the business in your heart. He says. His father was a carpenter, his grandfather also worked with wood. Rutz junior has two left hands and prefer to custom-made communication schreinert, therefore, services. “The 30-zone on the main roads hamper the commercial and public transport. The flow of traffic is prevented, time is lost,” says Rutz, who must also wear the transport policy somewhere in the heart. A story from the year of 1992 suggests. At the time, Rutz 20 and cleaned was voluntary, the of-the-box thinkers with color bags beworfene Zurich town hall. The “view” was the headline in “Bravo”, and the boy Rutz was allowed to explain in the article, his political compass. As: “The transport policy should not be at the expense of individual motorized transport.”
27 years have passed since then, not an easy time for the followers of the motorized individual traffic. You, as the cars from the street would be crowded. And now 30 km / h zones on main roads. There is little in the enraged passionate motorists. Taxi driver cursing about it, as you would have put the devil stones in the way. The TCS writes of a “criminalisation of the motorist”. Tempo-30-opponents have taken their battle to the Federal court – and lost.
Gregor Rutz (SVP) wants to thwart the cantons in the case of Tempo 30. Photo: Keystone
All of this Furor Rutz is foreign. The man wants to change the Swiss transport policy, are as realistic as possible. He calls on the Tempo road must be a 30-zones, and if, then only for security reasons but surely not because of the noise. Because he had found that the Argument of the noise carrier, often a political one, say, left Note. Rutz was submitted in Bern, a parliamentary Initiative. The national Council said in November with the votes of CVP, FDP and SVP Yes. In April, the traffic Commission of the Council of States advises. A Yes would be a paradigm shift in transport policy, wrote the NZZ. Rutz’ proposal would disempower the cantons and the municipalities, and the sovereignty over their roads to the Federal. Rutz contrary, it would be in the road traffic act for cantonal main road axes, a guideline value for the speed limits.
“pure prosperity phenomenon”
The Trend is going in a different direction. The Federal court of justice has held in 2018 in two Judgments that excessive noise must be treated at its source, with a whisper pad or with a lower speed.
Rutz has little understanding for people like Hertach. Those who live in the city, who come to clear on a main street live, which had with the noise. “Otherwise, he must move to the country,” says Rutz. Even the desire for 30s-zone in a “pure prosperity phenomenon”.
Hertach finds Rutz’ attitude is ignorant. He is supported by the Zurich VCS representative, Markus Knauss, a specialist for noise protection issues. The VCS complained in Zurich several times successfully for more noise protection. “We are only demanding what the noise protection regulation the Federal government imposes for over 30 years. This has nothing to do with left-right Thinking,” says Knauss and finds: When Rutz live on the zürichberg, in a Tempo-30-Zone, and of his Kingdom hill less privileged people thin häutigkeit accused, then it was not understandable. “Road noise is harmful to health,” says Knauss, the was scientifically proven. Rutz interferes with the commercial enemy Knauss and says that one should only look at the resume of Knauss, I never worked for a private company. Also, the pace 30: Sometime you play the man.
Nasty comments on Facebook
Hertach has researched a lot in recent years, met with other noise harassed, gathered signatures and turned off advertising on Facebook. The result is that Support, but also primitive comments. On his Computer there is the folder “noise Lucerne road”. Its content has grown into Unmanageable. E-Mails, court decisions, scientific papers.
From an interest in the topic of a task. A fight for a better quality of life. Initially, you have ridiculed him in Kriens, the Greens and the social Democrats, granted him political lack of Opportunity. Hertach did not listen to it and fought on. It seems to have paid off.
The southern slope of mount industry and trade Association, has known to a Tempo-30-Zone, the CVP and FDP-seniors support the endeavor. Only the SVP bristles. You don’t want the speed limit is 30, she wants a Tunnel. “It is too expensive and therefore not credible,” says Hertach, the SVP on the case in the Canton, usually only through savings plans. “It could tell me no one have sensible reasons against Tempo 30. Never!”, says Hertach. Now something that always follows, when the Tempo-30-go supporter: you will eventually end up in Köniz.
Purified as pilgrims
The Bernese Agglogemeinde roads is the model for all transport straightener on main. 14’000 cars travel every day through the center. Since 2005, the speed limit is 30 here. Traffic lights and pedestrian crossings missing – people can cross the roads anywhere you want. The consequences: less accidents, less injuries, less noise. To three decibels, the Buzzing went back to what felt equivalent to a halving of the noise. In addition, it has increased six-fold the number of passers-by and the turnover of the industry increased. The Könizer would not give up their 30 Zone, says their Creator, the engineer Fritz Kobi. Rutz tells him that he had also heard the opposite.
a Delegation from Kriens traveled to Köniz, many fellow travelers Tempo goods-30-skeptics. The individual came back as visitors from the sanctuary of Lourdes. Purified. Animated. And a request: such A Zone should also have Kriens. Only the implementation can take years. Until then, Hertach at the Lucerne road would place on loved ones ‘ 30s-boards – and just be left alone.
(editing Tamedia)
Created: 27.03.2019, 12:12 PM
