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Safe routes to school: Chemnitz improves safety for ABC shooters!
Chemnitz is improving school route safety at the start of the 2025 school year with new measures and speed reductions.
Safe routes to school: Chemnitz improves safety for ABC shooters!
The start of the school year on Monday, August 11, 2025 is just around the corner and will bring many children their first day of school. The school route security group in Chemnitz has already done a lot to ensure that the little explorers get to their new educational institutions safely. Those who make their way to school every day can look forward to numerous improvements in school route safety. As part of a committed collaboration with the traffic authority, the school authority and the Chemnitz police department, to name just a few, important measures have already been implemented to eliminate danger spots and deficiencies in the road space.
These initiatives aim to significantly increase safety for the youngest road users. Particularly noteworthy is the reduction of the maximum speed to 30 km/h in several sensitive areas, including the Weststraße primary school on Reichsstraße/Weststraße and the Harthau primary school on Annaberger Straße. These speed limits are intended to ensure that children can get to school unhindered and safely.
Concrete measures for more security
The past few months have shown that measures to ensure safety on the way to school are urgently needed. Among other things, parking stalls at the Glösa primary school were dismantled, which ensures better visibility and more space to move around. Markings were also made on Hoffmannstrasse at the Pablo Neruda Elementary School to ensure that parental traffic does not lead to dangerous situations.
- Umgesetzte Maßnahmen:
- Tempo 30 vor Schulen: Grundschule Weststraße, Grundschule Harthau, Waldorfschulverein Chemnitz.
- Rückbau der Parkstände an der Grundschule Glösa für verbesserte Sicht.
- Markierung einer Sperrfläche an der Pablo-Neruda-Grundschule.
- Einrichtung von Elternparkplätzen an der Kooperationsschule.
- Klare Parkregelung im Wendehammer beim Förderzentrum „Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi“.
- Einbahnstraßenregelung an der Grundschule Reichenhain.
The visual presence of traffic information is particularly important. Pictograms in the 30 km/h zone on Zöllnerstrasse remind drivers to adjust their speed and thus ensure the safety of school children.
Prospects for the coming year
Planning for the coming period is already in full swing. The plan is to improve the crossing at the DPFA Rainbow School through innovative measures such as the installation of bollards. In addition, further pictograms will be installed in the 30 km/h zone on Lichtenauer Straße and the speed reduction on Waldenburger Straße near Friedrich August III. High school is being pushed forward.
At the start of the school year, the Chemnitz Police Department, together with the public order office, will also be making every effort to ensure that traffic near the school is safe. The volunteers of the Chemnitz traffic police e. V. will also assist in securing the way to school. Together, those responsible are calling on people to be particularly attentive in these sensitive areas and to adjust the speed.
For further information on school route safety, we recommend visiting the City of Chemnitz website. Going to school is an important part of our children's daily adventures, and we should all do our part to make these adventures safer.