Wallring: Thank you very much! More of it!

Wallring: Thank you very much! More of it!

The “Wallring” is a ring-shaped premium cycling route around Bremen’s city centre that is intended to connect the other planned premium routes. The happy occasion for today’s report is that once again a few hundred metres of the Wallring have...
Platz Da! Parliament Agrees Compromise

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...
Parking Day: Or how to civilise a traffic hell

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,...
Seeing Red

Seeing Red

 Bremen’s tortuous route to something resembling a Cycling City took another step forward this month with the re-surfacing of the oft-plagued cycle street Parkallee. Regular readers of our blog will know that this semi-main artery for through traffic – it is one...