Won‘t happening, because right-conservative „christian“-democratic-Party are in charge in the City, because of Boomers living in the suburbs of Berlin (which voted for them)
The city’s parliament is to vote on proposals to severely restrict traffic in an area roughly the size of Brighton and Hove.
Brits also love their metric units /s
At least it’s a known place instead of saying Yard. Like, whose yard should i use as a benchmark?
Ikr, how about telling you how much they weigh in stones. Like which stone lady?
Henry V’s, obviously.
Its 88 km² or 1.5 Manhattans.
Or about 12,000 football fields.
In the French mertric system it would be a bit less then a Paris.
I drove in Berlin a few years ago. Even when there was a lot of traffic it was super easy to get around. I had an easier time getting through Berlin than my 30k population city in Denmark.
With that said, a car-free city is obviously the better option for a whole bunch of reasons, but it just doesn’t really seem to have THAT bad traffic problems.
I also think Denmark has something strange with their car infrastructure. I don’t know what it is, but Danish roads feel harder to navigate. Bike paths however are top notch.
That’s probably substantially due to the fact that it’s also extremely easy to get nearly everywhere via public transport and a few minutes walking… I’d guess car ownership is pretty low…
202 cars / 1000 people in that city center area.
330 cars / 1000 people outside the center.
https://interaktiv.tagesspiegel.de/lab/autokarte-berlin-in-diesen-kiezen-gibt-es-die-meisten-autos/
In whole Germany it’s 580 / 1000.
I’m surprised it’s that low for the whole of Germany.
It’s not out of the ordinary for EU as a whole either.
I’m also guessing it’s actually lower, almost all larger German cities are all very livable without car with fine public transport, but a lot of city people do own an old VW-van or similar for holidays, which is often not used much in regular daily life.
