Plittersdorf turning circle Open for business

Bad Godesberg.  · Much praise has gone out to Bonn roadworks for finishing the Plittersdorf turning circle early.

Thanks to a mild winter and favorable weather conditions, the big construction mess in Plittersdorf has come to an end and the new turning circle opens Friday morning at 9:00 a.m. It connects Plittersdorfer Straße, Ubierstraße, Mittelstraße and Gotenstraße. Much praise has been extended to the civil engineering bureau for roadworks. Initial time tables had the project finishing up at the beginning of June but they were able to speed things up and finish around two months early.

This is a huge relief for people who drive in the area and for businesses who had complained about having fewer customers due to the construction. Blocked off roads and heavy machinery on Beethovenallee, Plittersdorfer Straße and the corner of Körnerstraße scared away potential business. In a visit from the director of the roadworks bureau at the end of February, Peter Esch promised he would do what he could. Signs were put up to let people known they still had access to the businesses.

As uncomfortable as the situation was, local businesses had praise for the city in responding to their needs. And Waltraud Haidous of the shop “Lotto, Toto and Bürobedarf” (office supplies) said the construction workers were working like crazy at the site and called it “the fastest construction site in Germany.” Christian Sydow from the Second Hand Shop “Relindis” said he had seldom seen so many people and machinery at work all at once on a construction site, “One can really say here in Bonn that we can be proud of a construction site.”

An interesting note in this story - if you go back to the 1960’s, there was already a turning circle here. It was replaced with stoplights. Officials say that bus routes affected by the construction will also return to their normal routes this evening at 6:00 p.m.

Orig. text: Katharina Weber

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