Cycling is eco-friendly. Less environmentally friendly it is, if a bike path old oak must fall. The danger here is that now, during the reconstruction of the EBE 8 in Grafing.

nice elkofen – On Wednesday (3. June 2020) is planned for the ground-breaking ceremony, but before the official Start of the construction project, there is already Trouble. The Green group in the district Council has agreed to meet on Monday to an agreement, other actions are not excluded. There are two oak trees on the road from nice to elkofen in the direction of the gyro, of the to Grafing, Wiesham or riding gesinger intersection of bent can be. These oaks to make way for a road expansion project.

trees a green gate

Who is nice to elkofen on the EBE 8 to the roundabout on the road, runs here in a green gate. The left and right of the street, two large oak trees, the fairs in the North of the road has to have a circumference of 4,20 metres, the Green downstream of the stand. Experts estimate the age of the two trees of approximately 300 years. "That was definitely not a specimen tree, the other forest is already so old and later on," says Waltraud Gruber, spokesperson for the green circle tags group. to understand

"Difficult and hardly comprehensible"

Because the County road EBE 8 and, in addition, with a Anwandweg for cyclists provided expanded, see the Green, the two oaks are threatened, the trunk of which is located approximately one and a half metres from the present edge of the non-maintained road. "The nature of valuable and beautiful old oak can't be saved in the Expansion of a road, is to be understood at first glance for many people is difficult and hard to understand," admits Evelyn Schwaiger, authorities spokeswoman for the district administrator's office Ebersberg.

the Committee on The environment with not a word

What annoys Gruber: It had not been mentioned in the debate in the environment Committee of the circle tags with a single word, the two old trees may need to soft. This is a fact. "We want to use in each case to ensure that you will not like."

A call in the Grafinger city hall does not help. "We are not the Builder", - stated from the management. For more information, please contact the road give Rosenheim building Department. From a press release only stating there but. "In the course of road construction, the state building authority Rosenheim to a length of 1.1 kilometres, a pedestrian and cycle path new build. At the end of the Go - and bike path, in the area of nice elkofen, in addition made a crossing of the island, in order to increase the traffic safety. In addition, the circle is expanded to road in this area, and the line improved.“

the Radius is not carved in stone

A Radius is not yet set in stone, applies to Gruber here, mutatis mutandis, and it refers to two bike paths that are easily been around the trees led. One of them is standing between Grafing and ostrich village at the junction to Dichau. There is but one more example: In Lorenz, mountain oak they would have been by road construction projects at risk. Here, too, so, Gruber, had been completed, the planning already, "but was then changed again". "It is very sad that we lose these beautiful and very old tree, however, a rescheduling in the opinion of all the experts, would lead to a significantly higher area consumption", as well as to the clearing of other trees, took County administrator Robert low buttocks, on demand of the Ebersberger Zeitung position.

the greens want to put all the levers in motion

"Before the fall may actually be here like at all," because of the bird breeding season, Gruber says. On Monday were erected at the roundabout, but already road barriers. "We will pull out all the stops," says Green. "We must think of a Plan B. Don't, don't,“ said Gruber's.

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