Hamburg's first school road in danger: Protests of the parent form are missing!
Hamburg's first school road in danger: Protests of the parent form are missing!
In Hamburg, a hot topic is setting up: The red-green Senate has decided to put the first school road at the Rellinger Straße primary school. This comes across massive protests by transport associations and parents' initiatives that are campaigning for safe way to school. Because the timely implementation of the traffic-calmed zone was to take place in spring 2025, but the conversion was stopped because car parking spaces are affected. A moratorium for the dismantling of these parking spaces, defined in the "Parking Master Plan", has abruptly brought this process to a standstill, as the ADFC Hamburg reports.
The affected residents and children go to the barricades. An alliance from the parents' council of Rellinger Straße, the ADFC and the initiative Course Fahrradstadt is decisively campaigned for the project. "The security of the students and the improvement of the quality of stay in front of the school should be more important than parking spaces," says Marieke Sander from the parents' council in a nutshell. This also addresses the concerns of the student Selma from year 6, who complained about the lost ideas and uncertainty of the project.
safe ways for the youngest
The demands for safe school paths are not new. As early as 2022, children pleaded for school roads in a protest in front of the Conference of Transport Ministers. In Germany, around 20,500 children between the ages of 6 and 14 are injured in traffic accidents, many of them, while they were not on foot. A quarter of the parents take their children to school by car, which increases traffic in front of the schools and increases the risk to the little ones. Studies show that the way to school is the safest. These findings have been confirmed by the latest surveys, which show that 86% of the respondents reject the way to school for elementary school students.
In this context, the Senate has also announced that school roads can be set up more easily and legally. This should be done by a partial interfere with traffic areas, whereby the selection of suitable roads will be made in cooperation with school communities, authorities and district offices. The first possible schools for future school streets have already been mentioned, including the Adolph-Schönfelder School and the St. Antonius Catholic School.politics and citizens in dialogue
The Greens in Hamburg are pleased with the commitment of the Senate for safe way to school and demand a rapid implementation. "It is crucial that every child can get to school safely and independently," said the representatives. However, the municipal authorities must also be equipped with sufficient personnel to quickly promote the plans.
The stop of the Schulstrasse in Altona is a setback in the comprehensive effort to improve the path to school in the Hanseatic city. Such a project could help to reduce the dependence on parent taxis and to increase security for everyone involved. Now it is up to politics to give in to the pressure of the population and find solutions so that the plans for school roads are not only on paper.
The situation remains tense. Transport associations, parents and students are called to start a dialogue with politics and to work for a future -proof and secure school -way situation. Because one thing is clear: the safety of our children should always come first, regardless of the car park.
For further information on the background and developments related to school roads in Hamburg, the reporting of ADFC Hamburg href = "https://www.gruene-hamburg.de/presse/sichere-schulwege-elterntaxis-gruenes-glicht-fuer-schulstrassen-in-hamburg/"> Grünen Hamburg and the analyzes of the Deutschlandfunk referred.
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