 Former mayor Ottmar Schweizer is on record as having pushed for the construction of the bypass throughout his 24 years in office.The curving and relatively narrow high street has been part of a long distance route for many years, but the number of heavy trucks passing through small towns like Mögglingen rose substantially after 2005 which was the year in which Germany introduced Autobahn tolls for trucks above twelve tonnes gross weight.Continuing failure to construct the planned bypass is blamed on an absence of funding.