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[–] 9 points 1 year ago (5 children)

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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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    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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  • [–] [S] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

    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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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I'm surprised it's that low for the whole of Germany.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    It's not out of the ordinary for EU as a whole either.

    I'm also guessing it's actually lower, almost all larger German cities are all very livable without car with fine public transport, but a lot of city people do own an old VW-van or similar for holidays, which is often not used much in regular daily life.

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