What happens when the Highway Code clashes with fundamental individual rights as formulated by the UN or national constitutions? In Germany, federal legislators’ proposals to resolve the issue failed to get approval at the Federal Council on November 24th 2023. Here we explain some of the contradictions, and what should and could be done.
“I’m dependent on my vehicle – it has to be parked somewhere” is a common refrain in Bremen. Here we take a look at who – legally – really IS dependent.
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.
There is hardly an issue in Bremen that is as heated as the parking of cars in residential areas. Questions like these arise: Who does resident parking help? Is parking on pavements permissible? And if so, under what conditions? What rights do pedestrians have? The...
Part 1 : The legal Situation on Bremen's Streets Public space is always a scarce commodity in cities that have grown over time without central planning. Ever more, and ever bigger, vehicles are competing for the same amount of space. At the same time, ...
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....
Berlin’s Volksentscheid Fahrrad initiative (VEF), launched in November 2015, has within a very short time kindled an unprecedented public debate about cycling. The "Radentscheid" has become a perennial favourite of the Berlin media (see Media Coverage) and is now...