Dream of car-free Berlin aims to end nightmare of gridlock
Dream of car-free Berlin aims to end nightmare of gridlock
www.thetimes.com
Dream of car-free Berlin aims to end nightmare of gridlock
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The city’s parliament is to vote on proposals to severely restrict traffic in an area roughly the size of Brighton and Hove.
Brits also love their metric units /s
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Its 88 km² or 1.5 Manhattans.
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Or about 12,000 football fields.
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At least it's a known place instead of saying Yard. Like, whose yard should i use as a benchmark?
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Henry V's, obviously.
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Ikr, how about telling you how much they weigh in stones. Like which stone lady?
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In the French mertric system it would be a bit less then a Paris.
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I drove in Berlin a few years ago. Even when there was a lot of traffic it was super easy to get around. I had an easier time getting through Berlin than my 30k population city in Denmark.
With that said, a car-free city is obviously the better option for a whole bunch of reasons, but it just doesn't really seem to have THAT bad traffic problems.
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That's probably substantially due to the fact that it's also extremely easy to get nearly everywhere via public transport and a few minutes walking.. I'd guess car ownership is pretty low..
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202 cars / 1000 people in that city center area.
330 cars / 1000 people outside the center.
https://interaktiv.tagesspiegel.de/lab/autokarte-berlin-in-diesen-kiezen-gibt-es-die-meisten-autos/
In whole Germany it's 580 / 1000.
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I also think Denmark has something strange with their car infrastructure. I don't know what it is, but Danish roads feel harder to navigate. Bike paths however are top notch.
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Won‘t happening, because right-conservative „christian“-democratic-Party are in charge in the City, because of Boomers living in the suburbs of Berlin (which voted for them)