Traffic-calmed down range
As traffic-calmed down range becomes in Germany marked a as follows Playing race designated. It serves that in closed localities.
Within this range applies (see § 42 Abs. 4a ):
- Pedestrians may use the road in their whole width; Children's games are everywhere permitted.
- Vehicle traffic must Step speed keep.
- Those Driver if pedestrians may neither endanger nor obstruct, if necessary, they must wait.
- Those may the vehicular traffic not unnecessarily obstruct.
- That Parks is inadmissibly, excluded outside of characterized surfaces for the in or stepping out, for the loading or unloading.
The traffic noise abatement becomes in Germany by that 325 (Beginning) announced and by the road sign 326 (End) waived.
The marking of traffic-calmed down ranges presupposes that the which are possible roads, in particular by speed-reducing measures of the road construction load carrier or the road construction authority, have predominantly residence and development function (administrative regulation at time 325/326). That means, the traffic-calmed down range must be structurally so put on that the typical character of a road with roadway, sidewalk, cycle track does not prevail. Usually this is reached by a development on the same level (paving), planting patches, mutual park conditions, plateau on paving and restricting.
Economical "barriers" are disputed, as for example "citizen of Berlin cushion", "Cologne plate", ramp stones and concrete planting excavator bucket. They impair the optical overall view and can for two-wheeler drivers, older and handicapped humans and rescue vehicles become dangerous.
Transit traffic or truck traffic is not forbidden in principle, the traffic-calmed down range is thus no service road. Around that from this ordering to hold, often become put on or the driving directions so prescribed that the ranges become unattractive as abbreviation.
One which can be observed not rarely within traffic-calmed down ranges it is that itself the straight adjoining owners over those Speed limiting jump over, although the measure for increase that Living quality and that the inhabitant serves.
Swiss the counterpart to the traffic-calmed down range is Meeting zone.
