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[–] 14 points 1 year ago

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)

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    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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  • [–] 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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