by Richard Grassick | Nov 22, 2018
English subtitles available. Click the subtitles icon towards the bottom right of the screen. With Bremen’s state election looming next year, and the Greens riding high in the polls, there is a very real chance that they will form a strengthened half of any new...
by Richard Grassick | Nov 13, 2018
Where now for the Bremen Bündnis für die Verkehrswende? Last month’s packed Car Parking conference certainly generated significant media interest, with speaker Uta Bauer interviewed by the Weser Kurier, and Radio Bremen’s Buten un Binnen doing a major feature on the...
by Denis Petri | Oct 12, 2018
On June 28th 2018 Berlin’s Parliament signed a new Mobility Act into effect. This was the final point of a more than two and a half-year long campaign by the Initiative Citizens Referendum for Cycling in Berlin and their umbrella organization Changing Cities....
by Richard Grassick | Oct 2, 2018
(Click on CC to choose English subtitles) The hilarious everyday experience of transport campaigns in Bremen (an extract) – Temporary play street: Turned down – Application for cycle stands and bollards on pavements to keep the street entrance clear for...
by Gudrun Eickelberg | Aug 28, 2018
„The bicycle has done more for the emancipation of middle and upper class women then all the struggles of the womens’ movement“. So wrote the Austrian authoress and feminist Rosa Mayreder (1858-1938). The first female cyclists came from wealthy families, taking the...
by Richard Grassick | Jul 17, 2018
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...