Cycling Politics

Protected Bike Lanes: Solving the safety conflict?

Protected Bike Lanes: Solving the safety conflict?

People who are involved with transport politics are continuously confronted with the issue of safety. Bike lanes are rejected, supposedly because of safety, while others demand them for exactly the same reasons. Cycling on the road is recommended by some as being...

Parking Space to Cycle Space? Not In Bremen

Parking Space to Cycle Space? Not In Bremen

  With the recent publication of proposals for comprehensive parking management by Bremen's Transport Transition coalition, there’s been considerable discussion in the city’s media about the problem of illegal parking. Little has been said about its direct impact...

Bremen’s Parking Policy Battleground

Bremen’s Parking Policy Battleground

  Some cycling activists may be wondering why we’ve spent the last couple of months discussing the apparently boring subject of car parking. True enough, there are certainly sexier cycling themes to pursue in Bremen at the moment - the planned Cycling Quarter in...

Green Light for Cycle Neighbourhood

Green Light for Cycle Neighbourhood

Further to our post in December, it has been announced this week that Bremen has been successful in its bid for federal funding towards a budget of €2.4m (2.396.650m €) for the proposed Bicycle Neighbourhood in the Neustadt district of the city. By mid-2019 the...

Model Bike Neighbourhood in Neustadt?

Model Bike Neighbourhood in Neustadt?

The term “Model Bike Neighbourhood” (Fahrradmodellquartier) awakens fantasies and desires in me. It sounds like “city of the future” and rather cool. It sounds like a neighbourhood, in which everyone can move in the public space with the same right and without fear....

Parkallee – No Stars For The Cunning Plan

Parkallee – No Stars For The Cunning Plan

Anyone who has been on a cycle tour of Bremen will know the city’s top attraction Der Stern (The Star). The Stern roundabout sits in the Schwachhausen district, Northeast of the city centre and has seen changes to its layout over the years. Now new plans are afoot....

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