by Wolfgang Köhler-Naumann | Dec 17, 2021
The “Wallring” is a ring-shaped premium cycling route around Bremen’s city centre that is intended to connect the other planned premium routes. The happy occasion for today’s report is that once again a few hundred metres of the Wallring have...
by Beatrix Wupperman | Jul 14, 2021
or: How the Germans could become more beautiful and happier (Ricarda Huch) “I believe that if all Germans cycled, they would lose their dull sensuality and be happier and more agreeable.” (Ricarda Huch to Richard Huch 1896) The Free Hanseatic City of Bremen was a...
by Richard Grassick | Feb 15, 2021
Bremen has a long history of developing tools that have been proven to encourage and enable more people to cycle. The first German cycle path was built here in 1897, cycle streets were invented in Bremen in the 1970s, as was contra-flow cycling on one-way...
by Richard Grassick | Jan 19, 2021
A transport transition needs to be attractive as well as contributing to safer cycling and walking . How could that work? A cycle street free of car traffic in the middle of the city, on a main road? Is that possible? Major tram hubs, lit and sheltered, right...
by Mark Peter Wege | Nov 10, 2020
The climate crisis and need for a transformation to a sustainable traffic and transport system demand feasible concepts. The initiative “Einfach Einsteigen” (not exactly translateable, but close to Simply Enter; Get on (board)/hop on) has developed a...
by Angelika Schlansky | Jul 1, 2020
There are hardly any zebra crossings in Bremen. Why is that so? Don’t they offer pedestrians safety? Do they disturb the car traffic? Are they too expensive to produce? Zebra crossings are – strictly speaking – a stopgap in places where car traffic...
