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 Wolfgang Köhler-Naumann | Jun 19, 2020
At last the time has come. The start of formal public consultation for the “Wallring” premium cycle route was announced today by the Senator for Climate Protection, Environment, Mobility, Urban Development and Housing (short: SKUMS). The...
by Richard Grassick | May 6, 2020
Is your head stuck in the 1970s? Most of us like to think that we fit well with the modern world. We appreciate democracy. We support equal rights for all. We are tolerant and open to new ways. Yet when it comes to transport policy, many of us can’t get out of 1970s...
by Anne Kirkham | Jan 20, 2020
I’m profoundly disturbed by the notion that, as an experienced cyclist, I “should” ride in mixed traffic alongside cars and trucks. Doing so makes cycling more stressful and dangerous. As a non-motorized “lightweight” I’ve “lost” this “game” before I even start. ...
