In our article on pavement parking from January 2021, we drew attention to a lawsuit pending at the Bremen Administrative Court against illegal pavement parking. Now there is a judgement.
Citizen Action
How to Transform A Busy Street
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...
Platz Da! Parliament Agrees Compromise
Platz Da! (There's Space!) Bremen has collected 6,000 signatures in the Hanseatic city and held endless debates with politicians to make more space in Bremen for all people. Platz da! has fought for state-wide parking management, for the abolition of parking on...
Bremens first Protected Cycling Lane?
Bremen's Neustadt - located in the centre of Bremen, on the left bank of the Weser - is developing into one of Bremen's liveliest districts. However, the Friedrich-Ebert-Straße (see our post about Parking Day 2019 in Bremen) - a traffic axis designed at the height of...
Parking Day: Or how to civilise a traffic hell
The Friedrich-Ebert-Strasse in the Neustadt district of Bremen is heavily congested, or better said: a four-lane traffic hell. People who live on this road are exposed to unbearable levels of noise and air pollution every day. Because this road - 30 m wide, then 60 m...
Platz Da! Bremen enters the Home Straight
The collection of signatures for the citizen motion Platz Da! (we reported) is on the home straight. With the help of over 20 collectors and over 80 shop owners and businesses in Bremen, 4,500 supporters have signed the petition to date. To ensure the petition's...