After London, Stockholm and Milan also intends to introduce New York, a City toll for the city center. Should Berlin do? Yes, says Felix Wade joke, a toll would finally provide the scarce space on the roads with a price tag. No, says Sabine Beikler, a City toll is also the social aspect unjust.

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Who creates it in New York, can make it anywhere if it were up to Frank Sinatra, then all who still believe in living cities and the shaping force of policy values is large, the champagne cold: the Big Apple, a City-toll, to direct the traffic in Manhattan is smart.

It is a Bang, the other cool world city of the planet under pressure: Berlin needs a modern traffic control. A City toll would be a first step. The only question is: Dare the city, trust your politicians? It would be worth the Shitstorm to endure. Because, no matter where you look: Anywhere where there is a congestion, flows of traffic, the streets are safer, the air pollution is low and the transport is better. In Stockholm, where there was the introduction of much controversy, it works so well, that today is not only a large majority of the inhabitants of the levy would be good, but most of the motorists. For those who rely on his car, no longer is happy when he spends his life in the duration of the jam.

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order is So spectacular, the idea, therefore, of course, the approach in other areas of life: Who uses something that is mainly financed by the public, is a fee – S pay-to-rail, swimming pools, Opera. This does not cover most of the cost, but a part of it. Only for cars that hardly applies. In the year 2019 is absurd, because the public space in Berlin, the most long, the value, because the scarcest resource of all: more and more people are parts of Berlin, the city is growing, but there is no more space. More and more cars, more SUVs, because it is clear that it will be tight. Too tight.

A City toll would not only provide the scarce space on the roads, finally, with a price tag. A levy, let’s say, in the height of a cappuccino per day within the S-Bahn ring, it would only be fair. Currently drive cars – unlike their Lobby claims – at the expense of the General public by the city. The like mentioned the motor Vehicle and mineral oil taxes, by the way, the Federal government conceded and not the city, not rich for a long time, to pay the social costs for car traffic, as studies repeatedly have shown. Exhaust gases, noise, pollution, accidents, but it adds up. At the Moment pedestrians and cyclists subsidise the use of the SUVs of their neighbors – why?

Why subsidize pedestrians and cyclists, the SUV usage of your neighbors?

unlike, for instance, the speed limit on motorways would be the congestion charge, no patronizing of the driver. Each would continue to have the freedom to go on the road to how he wants it, he would only have to pay for part of the cost. Who comes out just as good with the LOB to middle, then due to the City toll, perhaps with the car – one less vehicle clogging up the roads and the air poisoned. All of them have something.

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With a City toll in Berlin could also be social: The money is not likely to seep in the budget for it, but should, as in New York planned for the purpose in the under-funded public transport to be invested. Better buses and trains, which would be cheaper than it is today, to benefit all, especially the poorest of Berlin, the can’t afford a car and so mobile. The longer the City is the toll collected, the better the transportation is. This is also why the year is growing in cities like Stockholm for a year, the approval for the levy. Clearly, for the introduction of it takes guts. Populist all the Register will pull the most to denigrate the idea. But: “If you can survive the political valley of death, and the positive effects will be visible, then the support is growing,” says Jonas Eliasson, who introduced in Stockholm, the toll. Let’s see, how much wide view of Berlin.

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