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To put this in perspective: The plan is to do this for a single weekend. And maybe even more putting it in perspective: Berlin's senator of traffic and environ
by hannob 7y ago
To put this in perspective: The plan is to do this for a single weekend.
And maybe even more putting it in perspective: Berlin's senator of traffic and environment has announced a lot of things regarding "traffic change", new bicycle paths etc. But there's a really huge gap between announcements and what's really happening.
- tnolet 7y agoCorrect. Living in Berlin for 5 years now and do almost everything by bike. Change is extremely slow or non existent. Some stuff is going on in Kreuzberg and Mitte, but it’ Taking ages.
- Faark 7y agoI can think of quite a few streets where one oftthe lanes were converted to bike lanes over the last few years. Still have a hard time believing they had the guts to do this to car owners. Yes, progress is slow. Especially compared to capitalistic endeavours like the recent scooter rollout. Who's it were faster, but also hate the "they are just talking" narrative.
- odiroot 7y agoThat's a pretty much normal outcome of Rot-Rot-Grün government. A lot of populist slogans before elections and not much done after. Also, they decried a "moratorium" on new underground lines, which are very much needed, with the growth of the city. It's especially visible in the North an NW parts. Ironically, Morgenpost wrote today exactly about that: https://www.morgenpost.de/berlin/article226722951/Berlins-Rot-Rot-Gruen-scheitert-bei-Mieten-Bildung-Verkehr.html https://www.morgenpost.de/berlin/article226722951/Berlins-Ro...
- tjungblut 7y agoExactly, free for a weekend to have a big party. So nothing special around there: every weekend they close one or the other street off to host a festival.
- arrrg 7y agoI also think that there would be many opportunities to do much more, but local politicians often aren’t brave enough. Which I can totally understand, since there will always be very worried people when you propose a change like that. In my small hometown it took construction work and the resulting closure for months of one of the main retail streets with no bad consequences to traffic flow at all to convince local politicians in the 80s to turn that street into a pedestrian only zone (originally it was planned to just open the street back up to traffic). In that way temporary experiments might just be a good idea to demonstrate the worthiness of an idea but I fear that closing something for a couple of days might just be too short. In the beginning these disruptions will always be bumpy and unpleasant, so you probably won’t be able to tell a good change from a bad change within only a couple of days.