Berlin has great public transport, and it’s not bad for a pedestrian either. I think the cycling infrastructure could use a bit of work from the bits I’ve seen, and there are way too many cars.
I’m assuming the people complaining about this proposal are the same people who complain about similar ones in cities around the world: people who don’t fucking live in the city anyway.
I live in Berlin. I don’t own a car. I can tell you public transport is not great
I’d be interested to know what you perceive as being not great
I’ve been to Berlin about ten times or so over the past couple of decades and it’s always struck me as being a pretty extensive and easy to use system, though as an outsider I guess the parts of the network I use might differ a bit from those that a local would
Berlin has a lot of low density single family housing in the outer areas of the city. They often have some multi family mixed in and do have good public transport connections, however it is still a large pro car voting block.
And of cause being the capital of Germany a lot of things are reported nationwide.
yeah, but that was not what the proposal would have restricted - the proposal only was for the inner berlin city to be restricted on cars movement. Those outer areas would not have been affected. the only inconvenience would have been for them to park their cars at the nearest/best connection to the inner city and continue by public transport (which is faster than going by car). the parking lots and infrastructure for that already exists, but is not used nowadays.
Having a massive car free zone is a huge obstacle and forces them to take public transit to the city centre. That is of cause part of the plan, but when you are from outside the ring, it is going to increase travel times. Just to be clear I support the idea, but this is a case of not being able to make an omelette without breaking some eggs.
Also the proposal is not going to happen anyway. Right now it would be about smaller changes, like removing parking and closing some streets, rather then a massive part of the city.
