Berlin’s transport Senator Regine Günther (independent, Green) has to sell with your claim, the drivers will like their car is better, a fierce debate triggered. From the “car hatred” was in the speech as “Anti-car-Senator” and “green Communist” was addressed Günther. In the Internet comment columns of your claim resulted in fierce debates.
Literally, since 2016, the incumbent Senator had said: “We want the people to abolish their car.” Instead, Cars should put a driver in the future with public transport, the Bicycle, or in shared vehicles from Sharing providers your daily life way back. “The less cars on the road, the more space for those who are really dependent on the car”, said Günther, and referred among others to entrepreneurs, where the current situation is causing on the streets of massive economic damage. Your statements she had made at a Meeting of the “Mittelstand” and economic Union of the CDU in Berlin on the topic of mobility. From the gathering of entrepreneurs, the proposal of günther had been accepted relatively uncritically.
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bogged down” On the political stage, Günther for their demand for a radical traffic had to turn to leave, however, sharp criticism. “Mrs Günther has been bogged down hopelessly, and your name as the Anti-car-Senator, all the honor made. The Berliners have a right to mobility, but also motorists,“ said Oliver Friederici, traffic policy spokesman of the CDU group. He threw Gunther, to lead a “fierce culture war against the car”, and described the claim as “a Form of paternalism, such as it is, unfortunately, typical for Green-policy”.
FDP-transport policy makers, Henner Schmidt, has described the claim of günther as “extremely bold,” and criticized, the debate conveys the impression, “as if it were a For or Against the car”. Who would ask such as, Günther a shift away from the Car, had to offer “Alternatives to the car”. Henner Schmidt campaigned for the Günther-mentioned space problem in the inner cities by means of “intelligent solutions such as underground Parking”. Unlike Günther, who had granted to the economy of transport priority over private transport, called Schmidt a such a difference in treatment as “unfair”. Frank Scholtysek, transport politicians in the AfD group, reacted via Twitter to the initiative of günther and described this as a “Green car hatred at its Finest”.
in fact, the reality is on the streets of Berlin by the demands of günther. In no other German city drivers were in the year 2018, so a lot of time in traffic as in Berlin, an average of 154 hours, or six full days. Berlin ended up in the cities Ranking for the first time, ahead of Hamburg and Munich and is now considered as the congestion capital of Germany. And also the registration figures speak a clear language. According to the Federal motor transport authority about 1.4 million motor vehicles in Berlin in the year 2018, reported that 1.2 million Cars. Ten years ago, there were nearly 160,000 vehicles less.
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Berlin’s transport Senator, “We want the people to abolish your car“
Robert Kiesel
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