The old concept of mobility is, in the view of transport and environmental Senator Regine Günther. The “car-friendly city” in the face of increasing competition for land, increasing air pollution, more traffic jams and many traffic dead it is no longer tenable, writes Günther (independent, Green) in a guest post for the daily mirror.
she confirms and declares to her in the past week have expressed the wish that the Berlin should dispose of your car. Your Statement has triggered a discussion on the car-free city, the Berlin CDU had criticized Günther as “Anti-car-Senator”.
The Senator makes three “Megatrends” for a sustainable transport policy in cities such as Berlin: urbanization, digitization and Decarbonization, so the absence of fossil fuels. In a growing urban area become the most important. Areas previously used by 1.4 million vehicles, would be land for housing, green, offices, and farms needed.
“The people, not only in Berlin, feel that we are in the transport policy is at a critical turning point,” writes Günther to the sometimes violent reactions to their appeal. Today’s infrastructure was “in no way on the fast-growing number of Wheeled vehicles or to new means of transport such as electric scooters”. Modern mobility must be “safe, clean, quiet, climate – and environmentally friendly”.
the Senator explained, “the backbone of the new mobility”, local public TRANSPORT, the need to be networked in the digital age, of course: car, Bicycle, or electric vehicles could be connected via an App Offered by train and Bus, the cheapest way combinations.
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the public TRANSPORT, decided by the Senate just a local transport plan in 15 years, a good 28 billion euros for buses and trains provides, according to the bill “for the better connection of the Pendulum from the surrounding area”. In Parallel, safe Cycling and walking infrastructure is to be established. For this purpose, protected cycle tracks, wheel connections or secure Bike stands.
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