Toulouser Allee

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Toulouser Allee
Derendorf relief road
coat of arms
Street in Düsseldorf
Toulouser Allee
south of Jülicher Strasse in October 2011
Basic data
place Dusseldorf
District Derendorf , Pempelfort
Created Start of construction in mid-August 2009, approval of the 1st construction phase on December 12, 2011
Cross streets Am Wehrhahn, Jülicher Strasse, Münsterstrasse, Heinrich-Ehrhardt-Strasse
use
User groups Car traffic
Technical specifications
Street length about 2,600 meters
building-costs approx. € 61 million

The Toulouser Allee (working title Relief Road Derendorf ) is a four-lane main road in the north of Düsseldorf , which connects Heinrich-Ehrhardt-Straße with the street Am Wehrhahn . For the most part, it runs free of intersections and cultivation and with structurally separate directional lanes on the site of the disused Derendorf freight station in a north-south direction right next to the S-Bahn line. A planned, short southern extension is to be crossed under Am Wehrhahn without crossing in future. The building rights were created as part of the Derendorf New Town Quarter (Le Quartier Central) project in connection with a residential and office development flanking the street via a development plan .

With the name Toulouser Allee , Düsseldorf refers to Toulouse , a city in the south of France with which it maintains friendly relations and with which it signed a cooperation agreement in 2003.

traffic

The designation relief road refers to the relief of the three major thoroughfares Brehmstrasse , Kettwiger Strasse and Prinz-Georg-Strasse by 15 to 20 percent each. The street also serves to connect the approximately 1500 apartments built by 2019 and the 311,000 m² of office space created at the same time in the Central District .

Originally it was considered to extend the street through a tunnel south to Moskauer Straße. The plan was discarded because of excessive costs. Instead, a short extension of the street will in future pass under Am Wehrhahn without crossing and then end on Worringer Straße. The accident-prone intersection of the Wehrhahn is to be defused.

A traffic load of 23,500 vehicles per 16 hours was originally expected on the Derendorf relief road. Since the (originally) forecast traffic would lead to the requirements of the 16th Federal Immission Control Ordinance being exceeded by up to 12 dB (A) , a noise protection wall up to 5 meters high is on the eastern side and in the area of ​​the new residential buildings "Le Flair" an earthfill with a noise protection wall, which will reach a total height of 8 meters, is planned on the western side.

In the meantime it has been shown that the forecast traffic volumes do not occur in reality (as of June 2018). The two outer lanes are used almost continuously for parking instead of the flowing traffic. For this reason, there is now a call to partially rebuild the road in favor of bicycle traffic (see there).

connections

The Toulouser Allee runs from Heinrich-Ehrhardt-Straße in the north, which here represents the federal highways 1 , 7 and 8 , to the seamless continuation over the Schirmerstraße to the street Wehrhahn in the south. There are connections in all directions at the end points as well as on Münsterstrasse. Entrances and exits to the Jülicher Straße bridge only exist from or in the south of Toulouser Allee. The ascent to the Franklin Bridge is only available for pedestrians in the shape of a spiral. There are also three traffic lights on Toulouser Allee. Two of them enable you to turn onto Marc-Chagall-Straße, which connects the Le Quartier Central development area to Toulouser Allee. The third leads to the newly built university of applied sciences.

history

Due to a lack of efficient cross-connections, the main eastern access routes to downtown Düsseldorf had been chronically overloaded for decades with the resulting detour traffic. With the abandonment of the Derendorf freight station, the long sought-after opportunity was seen to build a high-performance road along the already noisy railway line Cologne-Duisburg . The concrete planning began in 2000.

The first groundbreaking took place on August 20, 2009 by Mayor Dirk Elbers . The first section from Wehrhahn to Münsterstrasse was completed in November 2011 and opened to traffic on December 12, 2011. A second construction phase completed in December 2014 leads the street further north to Heinrich-Ehrhardt-Straße and connects to the new building of the Düsseldorf University of Applied Sciences . Construction started in February 2013.

costs

The already existing bridges of cross traffic over the site of the former freight station were financially advantageous, so that they did not have to be rebuilt for the Toulouser Allee.

The construction costs for the first section (which not only concern the relief road, but also various development measures and the city garden) have almost doubled, instead of € 24,400,000 they should amount to € 43,449,950. The annual follow-up costs are € 1,914,734. The second construction phase was worth 17.65 million euros.

Bicycle traffic guidance

A use of the new route for better guidance of bicycle traffic at this point has so far been almost completely omitted. Cycle traffic systems in the form of cycle lanes on the road were required in the planning process, but rejected by the then black-and-yellow council group with reference to the expected heavy vehicle load and no additional space was designated for them. At the moment there is only a short, shared footpath and cycle path in the northern part of the street, intended for both directions of travel, which is led via a ramp with no crossing possibility there onto the southern cycle path on Heinrich-Ehrhardt-Straße (out of town); further northward travel is not taken into account. The short existing cycle path bends in the south after a few hundred meters into Marc-Chagall-Straße and, in constant structural contact with a pedestrian path, is then led at some distance from Toulouser Allee through Berty-Albrecht-Park, where it ends suddenly at Louis-Pasteur-Platz; a direct continuation south to the Wehrhahn is also not planned there. The Franklin Bridge cannot be reached by cyclists either; the existing spindle is only designated as a pedestrian walkway and only connects to the northern pavement on the Franklinkbrücke (already heavily used by pedestrians because of the railway crossing, S-Bahn station and tram stop). At the moment, due to the lack of priority cycle lanes or lanes from the university of applied sciences, cyclists can legally use the road southwards. However, the road layout is in fact narrowed to one lane, as the outer lanes have been parked almost entirely for years. For example, there is currently only one lane left for car and bicycle traffic, on which cyclists cannot be overtaken without exceeding the safety distance.

Since the forecast high vehicle occupancy rate on Toulouser Allee has not yet come true, there is now a renewed call (as of June 2018), true to the original proposal, to rededicate two of the lanes on the road for bicycle traffic in the future. Although the connection between Derendorf and Wehrhahn has been shown as the main route in the city of Düsseldorf's cycle path map since 2015, the route has so far been predominantly not via the Toulouser Allee, but via Marc-Chagall-Strasse and Berty-Albrecht-Park, where a connection to the Wehrhahn will continue to only be established with a constant crossing with pedestrian traffic and indirect route guidance beyond the Louis-Pasteur-Park.

criticism

Critics spoke out against the relief road at an early stage and described it as the Derendorf urban motorway . They also complained about mistakes in the decision-making process.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20190622172145/https://rp-online.de/nrw/staedte/duesseldorf/duesseldorf-darum-wird-die-toulouser-allee-ueber-den-wehrhahn-verlaengert_aid -39531121
  2. ↑ Development area of ​​the Derendorf freight yard on Düsseldorf.de
  3. ↑ Development plan no. 5578/41 (draft) Neue Stadtquartiere Derendorf, pp. 36–41
  4. ↑ Toulouser Allee: Discussion about blocked lanes, Antenne Düsseldorf from June 5, 2018
  5. ^ Message from RP-Online from March 11, 2005
  6. ↑ Report from RP-Online from August 21, 2009 ( Memento of the original from September 10, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.rp-online.de
  7. ^ Dusseldorf antenna: message from November 18, 2010
  8. ^ Announcement by RP-Online from December 1, 2011
  9. ↑ http://www.duesseldorf.de/presse/pld/d2013/d2013_02/d2013_02_08/13020411_162.pdf
  10. ↑ http://www.duesseldorf.de/lib_neu/html/grafik.shtml?/planung/bauleit/plaene/z together /5578_041/ lb_5578_041.jpg
  11. ↑ Client's submission from the city of Düsseldorf 66/8/2006 page 5
  12. ↑ Client's draft from the city of Düsseldorf 66/152/2008
  13. ↑ http://www.wz-newsline.de/lokales/duesseldorf/die-toulouser-allee-ist-komplett-1.1819215
  14. ↑ Toulouser Allee in Düsseldorf is being extended for 17.6 million euros, NRZ from April 18, 2012
  15. ↑ Toulouser Allee: Discussion about blocked lanes, Antenne Düsseldorf from June 5, 2018
  16. ↑ Toulouser Allee: Discussion about blocked lanes, Antenne Düsseldorf from June 5, 2018
  17. ↑ Overview of the planned Düsseldorf cycle network with main and district network
  18. ↑ No city motorway through Derendorf
  19. ↑ Petra Kammerevert, MEP: Entlastungsstraße in Derendorf is and remains traffic-political nonsense ( memento of the original from February 21, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kammerevert.eu

Coordinates: 51 ° 14 ′ 21 ″  N , 6 ° 47 ′ 47.7 ″  E