Parking

Illegal Parking in Bremen:  Not a Victimless Crime

Illegal Parking in Bremen:  Not a Victimless Crime

We like Bremen and chose to make it our home Like many families, my partner and I chose to raise our children in Bremen because we enjoy the quality of life here.  Like the San Francisco Bay Area where I grew up, Bremen is multicultural, progressive, and openminded. ...

Parking: Expensive for everyone except drivers

Parking: Expensive for everyone except drivers

Is Parking a Basic Right? What does our community do when it offers free parking for almost everyone? Do free parking spaces constitute a needed public service such as education or health? Why am I allowed to buy a car without having to think about where I can park...

Creeping Parking Disease

Creeping Parking Disease

We’ve got a short update on our story of the keycutter from Schwachhausen. As readers may recall, a key-cutting service on Wachmannstrasse was repeatedly parking its service vehicles right outside the shop, blocking the guiding system for visually-impaired tram users...

Biebricher Straße – 30 Parking Spaces

Biebricher Straße – 30 Parking Spaces

The following video was shot in the summer of 2015 and the street scenes were filmed at an information afternoon organized by the “Citizen’s inititiative of Biebricher Strasse” campaigning for the space in their street being available for all citizens, not just...

The Key Stone Cop Out

The Key Stone Cop Out

In Bremen-Schwachhausen, or to be precise, Wachmannstrasse, there is a key cutting shop. On most working days, you’ll see its yellow or white company car parked outside. Very normal, right? Well no. The car is actually parked at a tram stop, right on top of a guiding...

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