A Vote For Cycling?

A Vote For Cycling?

After this week’s Buten un Binnen Wahl Lokal broadcast failed to address the self-proclaimed second most important issue in the forthcoming election (transport), we thought we would be helpful and provide a summary of the main parties’ positions. Seven parties...
Camp 2021 – German City Campaigns Get Networked

Camp 2021 – German City Campaigns Get Networked

  Following the success of Volksentscheid Fahrrad in Berlin, which now commits Germany’s capital city to a 600 million euro programme of transformation of its cycling infrastructure, a number of its key activists have helped establish Changing Cities. This new...
The Desperados of Schwachhausen

The Desperados of Schwachhausen

  Bremen’s Transport Development Plan is again under attack from the car-friendly city brigade. Just a few weeks after it decided to increase the number of parking spaces on the controversial Parkallee cycle street, the local council in Schwachhausen has proposed...
Mobility, Politics and Activism

Mobility, Politics and Activism

Our contributor Katja Leyendecker presented an outline of her dissertation during a visit to Bremen and the Geographische Gesellschaft, Bremen on 16th Januar 2019. Here is her presentation in full. You can also download her slideshow here. The presentation is largely...
“Platz Da!” Moves Up A Gear

“Platz Da!” Moves Up A Gear

  The “Platz Da!” initiative has officially launched, as reported in the Weserkurier and on the telly. “Platz Da! Bremen “is involving a growing number of Bremen citizens who are working together for a better cycling and walking infrastructure,...