I have followed the debate for a while and am familiar with the situation. I wouldn't be overly optimistic yet. Until now there have been a lot of bold announc

I have followed the debate for a while and am familiar with the situation. I wouldn't be overly optimistic yet. Until now there have been a lot of bold announcements and very little changes. Some of the things in the article paint a picture much more rosy than reality: "Meanwhile, the city’s existing bike-lane network—already extensive, but not always well segregated from car traffic—will be more rigorously protected by bollards." The fact is right now bike lanes are never segregated from car traffic in Berlin. There exist two kinds of bike ways in Berlin: Paintings on the street and cycleways on the pedestrian sidewalk. The bike lanes on the streets are often occupied by parking cars, and pedestrians usually walk on the other kind of cycleway like they don't exist.