Petition text

Petition text for the petition:

Traffic calming of the street "Zu den drei Linden"

Petition submitted by:

Fabio Herzig

Co-President of the board of the student organization Gymnasium Bäumlihof

Bäumlihof Grammar School

Zu den Drei Linden 80

4048 Basel

Demands:

- The street "Zu den drei Linden" from the intersection "Bäumlihofstrasse" to the intersection "Olsbergerstrasse" should be converted into a school street (based on the model of the Swiss Traffic Club).

- For this purpose, the section of the road "Zu den drei Linden" from the "Bäumlihofstrasse" junction to the "Olsbergerstrasse" junction is to be closed to cars, trucks and motorcycles.

- To ensure that suppliers to the schools/kindergarten and the Bäumlihof training centre (Zu den Drei Linden 95) are exempt from this closure, the words "Except feeder service to Zu den Drei Linden 95", "Permitted with written exemption" and the note "Freight handling permitted" should be added to the section of road from the "Bäumlihofstrasse" junction to the "Olsbergerstrasse" junction.

Justification:

The school buildings "Gymnasium Bäumlihof", "Sekundarschule Drei Linden", "Sekundarschule Bäumlihof", "Primarstufe Hirzbrunnen" and the kindergarten "Hirzbrunnenschulhaus" are located on the street "Zu den drei Linden". No other street in Basel-Stadt has more school buildings than "Zu den drei Linden".

As the campus is located outside the city, many pupils and a large proportion of the school and kindergarten staff cycle to school.

The road "Zu den drei Linden" is very narrow along its entire length and is further narrowed by sections with bicycle and car parking spaces. This often leads to very dangerous traffic situations for cyclists when countless bicycles, cars and lorries come towards each other before school starts, or when the flow of traffic is further impeded by the wild parking of parent cabs.

It would also be safer for people walking to school/kindergarten if this petition were accepted. The large number of pupils / teachers / kindergarteners on the sidewalk in the morning often leads to a lack of space. They then also swerve onto the road, which increases the danger for both pedestrians and the swerving cyclists when cars also crowd through the narrow road.

Target group:

The implementation of the petition would directly affect pupils, teachers and employees of a grammar school, two secondary schools, an elementary school and a kindergarten, as they are all located on the street "Zu den drei Linden". Residents of the streets "Zu den drei Linden", "Olsbergerweg", "Augsterweg" and "Giebenacherweg" would also be affected.

Consequences:

Pupils, teachers and employees of the schools/kindergartens located on the "Zu den drei Linden" road will arrive at their school/kindergarten more safely on foot or by bike, as they will not be almost run over by masses of parent cabs on the last few meters of their journey to school/work.