Berlin and the fight against wrong Parker: Several junctions and intersections in the Bergmannstraße in Berlin-Kreuzberg, backed up in recent days with a massive steel bollard. You are wrong to hold Parker in the past, reckless of the intersections had and pedestrians at risk and disabled.

it is Now a fight over the bollard. “Not enough Hatch and/ or painted stop prohibition / Park signs?”, a reader wrote to the daily mirror. He Worries that the fire Department “no longer for the rescue to use”.

Ultimately, the bollard’s view, the district office and keep only the in the rules of the road prescribed Five-Meter area at corners. “The only language understood by motorists,” said a cross-Berger on Twitter the bollards.

For emergencies are established in the bollard gaps of about 3.50 meters series that vehicles can reach on the sidewalk. In fact, the photos show that the gaps of wrong Parkers are being abused circulating on Twitter already.

The bollards are part of the 8. October 2018 as a test, begun in “Berlin encounter zone” in the Bergmannstrasse, between Mehringdamm and Zossener Straße. The borough Assembly of Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg had decided at the end of January 2019, the termination of this encounter zone from August 2019, in order to enable the jazz festival on bergmannstraße in September. Actually, the Test should be run over 18 months.

In the spring of 2018 were drawn up, some called Parklets – wooden platforms with Seating on the roadside. In the case of a first citizen survey participants indicated that they want traffic calming and more Greenery in the street. As reported, gave the CDU the project to the traffic calming, which had driven the green Baustadtrat Florian Schmidt, for “botch”. When it became clear that the mountain man street feast is threatened by the Parklets, voted in late January, also the SPD and the Left for the Dismantling of the Parklets.

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Whether and how this BVV-will be implemented decision to be open, it was in the district office. Whether the Parklets will actually be degraded in advance, is not safe. As reported, the transport administration of the Senate for the Test. With the Jazzfest of the dispute, the miners have to do the road anyway, nothing more, said district spokeswoman Sara Lühmann on Tuesday the daily mirror. This takes place in July in the cross-mountain road, so on the other side of the around mehringdamm. The bollards, the new traffic lights and the bike racks will remain in any case.

Some of the car Parking spaces in the mountain man street have been used for hundreds of bike racks.Photo: Jörn Hasselmann