The traffic management was done on Friday a message on Twitter: “The first 100 meters.” In Numbers: 0.01 per thousand of the Berlin road network (more than 5000 kilometers, both sides are calculated). Until the message from the house of the greens transport Senator the enthusiasm for the bollard range is the behaviour. In November 2017, Günther had announced the construction for the spring of 2018. Now it was the spring of 2019. On Saturday, the green color had been passed, reported the landlord of a Snack bar at the southern. The solid metal bollards have been previously anchored in the Asphalt.
Behind these first 100 meters, which are also not been released officially, is a construction site for a larger building. A massive concrete silo stands on the bike path. Apparently, the construction comes to a standstill. One indication of this is the prohibition of stopping signs are most Recently, on the half of the length of the hasenheide: “28.01.19, From 7 o’clock” – but upside down. The district had communicated at the beginning of February, that the complete way “should be the end of March”.
In November 2017 Günther had announced that the “protected bike lanes” from the Südstern is applied to the Wissmann street – but only on the southern side, i.e. in the direction of Hermannplatz. On the other hand, there is a bumpy High-side the bike path.
criticism, there are all of the width of the path. A risk-free Overtaking is barely possible. On Twitter, a Video has been circulating already. If a slow cargo bike driving in the middle, it applies the brakes, the wheels behind it. Dodge is because of the bollards is not possible.
“Hasenheide reschedule”, had been requested by the ADFC therefore, already in September, when the plans had become known. The trail is 2.25 metres wide. If the safety distance to bollards and the kerb remain, according to the ADFC, only about 1.50 meters to little. “This is contrary to the relevant rules and regulations,” said the ADFC. At a Demo for a better bike lane, hundreds of people took part. 50 more inches would be enough, it was at the Bicycle club. However, the traffic administration building, as planned. It is the courage to make the Park strip 50 centimetres narrower is missing. As reported, cars driving in the Hasenheide in some cases to only a trace.
a pioneer. The bike path to wood street market was the first, the bollards protect.Photo: Jörn Hasselmann
The bollards are there to stop cars, the otherwise city-wide wheel tracks, and cyclists to Dodge in the flow of the traffic. In November was finished in the wood-market road in the middle of the first long cycle path with bollards. This is up to 3.5 meters wide, but the space is enough. Even there, it had already given a Demo of activists. Bollards are, however, only on the Northern side, towards the jannowitz bridge. On the other is not. On Twitter, numerous photos have been published, such as Cars and Trucks to block the green-colored bike lane. On a Tweet of günther’s spokesman replied: “Will soon be abgepollert.”
the same is true for Tamara-Danz-Straße in Friedrichshain. Since the opening of the shopping center, the color of marked tracks are to be permanently parked – although there is a large car Park is available. Radaktivisten have so much pressure, that the district of Friedrichshain-has decided to Kreuzberg, to secure the bike paths quickly with flexible bollards.
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