29.09. Raddemo over the A5!

More than 40 groups and organizations are starting the protest against the expansion with a bicycle demonstration on the A5. The ADFC Wiesbaden / Rheingau-Taunus also calls for participation. A bike feeder tour to Frankfurt starts at 11 a.m. at the bike wardrobe at Dern’sche Gelände.

The effects of Autobahn GmbH's long-sealed feasibility study would be enormous: a large-scale construction site that lasted for years, large-scale surface sealing and many closed cycle routes. It would be the first expansion of a motorway to ten lanes in Germany at all. As a result, significantly more people would drive the route, which will lead to additional noise, exhaust fumes, accidents and, in the end, congestion – not only directly on the motorway, but also on the roads in front of and behind it.

While the city of Frankfurt promotes the alternatives to the car and clearly rejects the expansion of the A5, Berlin and Wiesbaden are trying to generate more car traffic with more roads, which should then also flow to Frankfurt. How this should work with the limited space in the city, no one wants to explain so far.

The people living on the motorway are lured with more noise protection, but what this means in detail is unclear so far. In the feasibility study itself, the experts write that even with combinations of earth walls and walls up to 13 meters high, the nocturnal limits for noise in residential areas between Nordwestkreuz Frankfurt and AS Friedberg are exceeded. Also between Frankfurter Kreuz and Nordwestkreuz Frankfurt, they assume that even the fundamental rights reasonableness threshold of 70/60 dB(A) is exceeded day/night in the residential areas directly on the A 5. Therefore, housing is recommended, but it requires more space for construction, entails a longer construction period and is not yet included in the previously estimated 1.1 billion euros construction costs.

For this purpose, various plots of land, sports fields, allotment clubs, a European bird sanctuary and a drinking water sanctuary should be at least partially asphalted or become protective walls and walls. The expansion would also heat up the city of Frankfurt even further, as the experts themselves write: ‘The A 5 with the planned width of the road and the height of parallel sound insulation systems is an obstacle to these air flows. In view of the temperature increases forecast for the RheinMain area, especially in midsummer, the reduction of the off-road climate compensation function as a result of a further expansion of the A 5 in addition to road traffic-related noise constitutes a conflict for the resident population of the Rhine-Main area.’

The kick-off demonstration starts on 29.9.2024 at 2 p.m. on Mainkai, after an interim rally at 3.10 p.m. on Schwanheimer Ufer, the A5 will be cycled from 3.30 p.m. End around 4 p.m. at the Bockenheimer Warte.

The route and further information can be found on the Alliance's website https://www.stoppa5ausbau.de/ available.

A bike feeder tour to Frankfurt starts at 11 a.m. at the bike wardrobe at Dern’sche Gelände. If you are interested in participating, please contact us by e-mail.