Ecomobility
“Ecomobility” is the term for the green alternative to the automobile-dominated transport systems and mobility patterns in our cities. “Ecomobility..denotes the entirety of walking, cycling and wheeling, and ‘passenging’, i.e., using public transport. Car sharing may fall under ecomobility, provided cars are small, light city vehicles powered by renewable energy.”
– https://www.ecomobilityfestival.net/
Cycling City, Car City Bremen
Over the three years or so since we’ve been posting, a background debate has been continuously rearing its head. How, and why, did Bremen become a city with 25% modal share for cycling?
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...
Cycling Women in the 19th Century in Bremen
or: How the Germans could become more beautiful and happier (Ricarda Huch) “I believe that if all Germans cycled, they would lose their dull...
Sorting Bremen’s Cycling Advocacy Toolbox
Bremen has a long history of developing tools that have been proven to encourage and enable more people to cycle. The first German cycle...
Bremen’s 1st “Premium Cycle Route” To Be Completed In 2022
At last the time has come. The start of formal public consultation for the "Wallring" premium cycle route was announced today by the Senator for...
1970s Tools For 2030 Aims
Is your head stuck in the 1970s? Most of us like to think that we fit well with the modern world. We appreciate democracy. We support equal...
Cycling In Mixed Traffic? No!
I’m profoundly disturbed by the notion that, as an experienced cyclist, I “should” ride in mixed traffic alongside cars and trucks. Doing so...
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....
One Hundred and Eighty Kilotons
What can cycling do to reduce CO2 emissions in Bremen? Here we calculate what has been done, what hasn’t, and what can be done in the coming...
Cycling City, Car City Bremen
Over the three years or so since we’ve been posting, a background debate has been continuously rearing its head. How, and why, did Bremen become a city with 25% modal share for cycling?
Think Green? Vote Red?
Election day is approaching, we all have to decide how to vote. And it will be difficult, because coalition talks will follow. How do we achieve...
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...
Parkallee in Bremen: Missing the Target
Good Things Come To Those Who Wait? Parkallee in Bremen is part of a planned Premium Route for cycling that runs from the university in...
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...
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...
Protected Bike Lanes: Solving the safety conflict?
People who are involved with transport politics are continuously confronted with the issue of safety. Bike lanes are rejected, supposedly because...
Kids or Cars?
(Click on CC to choose English subtitles) The hilarious everyday experience of transport campaigns in Bremen (an extract) - Temporary play...
Women on bikes – There is a difference
„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...
Parking Space to Cycle Space? Not In Bremen
With the recent publication of proposals for comprehensive parking management by Bremen's Transport Transition coalition, there’s been...
The Bargain Hunters
Regular readers will know that, until now, we have never had to offer an explanation of a post over on the German language side of our...
Wazzup On Parkallee?
For some time now - from near and afar - I've been rubbernecking the ongoing saga of Parkallee - and the council's to-ing and fro-ing,...
Dangerous drivers from a parent’s perspective
Sunday night on the way home from the swimming pool my 8 year old daughter and I were almost run over by a car turning left into the crosswalk...
Bremen’s First Premium Route
When a cycling city like Bremen, with a cycling modal share of 25%, announces its flagship cycling infrastructure initiative of this parliament,...
Bremen’s Parking Policy Battleground
Some cycling activists may be wondering why we’ve spent the last couple of months discussing the apparently boring subject of car parking....
Green Light for Cycle Neighbourhood
Further to our post in December, it has been announced this week that Bremen has been successful in its bid for federal funding towards a budget...
Cycle Streets That Inspire?
Albrechtstraße: An old and comfy cycle street in Bremen Bremen released a comprehensive transport plan in 2014: Verkehrsentwicklungsplan 2025....
Humboldtstraße – A Role Model?
Bremen’s politicians are extremely proud of the new design of Humboldtstraße as a Cycle Street. It is hailed by our representatives and their...
Cycle Streets: Do content and label match?
Cycle Streets in Bremen: Purpose and Reality Fahrradstraßen - Cycle Streets - are seen, alongside cycle lanes, cycle tracks, protective strips...
Scharnhorststraße Plans – Who Benefits?
Last month, on 24th November, the Office for Road Traffic (ASV) made public its plans for the conversion of Scharnhorststraße to a Cycle Street....
Model Bike Neighbourhood in Neustadt?
The term “Model Bike Neighbourhood” (Fahrradmodellquartier) awakens fantasies and desires in me. It sounds like “city of the future” and rather...
The Good, The Bad, The Trees
The second post in our series about Cycle Streets follows a team as they look more closely at some of Bremen’s former, current and future Cycle...
Bremen Cycle Streets: Too Compromised?
Cycle Streets are an important issue in Bremen. Over the coming weeks we'll be publishing a short series of posts on the theme. The first comes...
Parkallee – No Stars For The Cunning Plan
Anyone who has been on a cycle tour of Bremen will know the city’s top attraction Der Stern (The Star). The Stern roundabout sits in the...
Frightening the Horses
In 2014, as we began our research into Bremen's cycling history, we spent many hours in the Bremen State Archive. It was there that we met...
Cycling in Bremen – The Early Years
“I believe that if all Germans cycled, they would lose their dull sensuality and be happier and more agreeable.” (Ricarda Huch to Richard Huch...
Do you know Bremen?
Ever heard about Bremen as the secret Cycling Capital of Germany, even one of the best in Europe? Of all German cities with more than 500.000 inhabitants Bremen leads the list of Cycling Cities. Here we explain.
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...
Richard Grassick|Jan, 2021
Einfach Einsteigen: A Public Transport Revolution?
The climate crisis and need for a transformation to a sustainable traffic and transport system demand feasible concepts. The initiative "Einfach...
Mark Peter Wege|Nov, 2020
The Great Tram Stop Adventure
An agitated lady stands at the Busestraße tram stop. "I have to take risks just to get to the bus stop”, she says. She pushes her rollator along...
Bernd Thomsen|Nov, 2019
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...
Denis Petri|Mar, 2019
Berlin : From Grassroots Movement to Mobility Act
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...
Denis Petri|Oct, 2018
Portland – Myth and Reality
Following a television documentary about the “do it yourself” and bicycle culture in Portland, Oregon, last year, many Bremers, and especially...
Anne Kirkham|Sep, 2018
European Push and Pull
The Amsterdam approach to car parking which we previously outlined is also regarded as a model for the European Push & Pull project....
Beatrix Wupperman|Apr, 2018
Carrot and Stick in Amsterdam
One of the best examples of consistent parking management is the city of Amsterdam. The principle is simple. The closer you park to the centre...
Beatrix Wupperman|Mar, 2018
Oslo: When Car Parking Is Actually Tackled
Norway’s capital Oslo has for many years proclaimed its desire to tackle climate change by reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Left and right...
Richard Grassick|Oct, 2017
A Visit to Amsterdam
The first thing you notice in Amsterdam's inner city is that there are significantly fewer cars there than in Bremen - fewer cars on the roads...
Gudrun Eickelberg|Oct, 2017
Cycling Referendum in Berlin: When Politicians Are Compelled to Act
Berlin’s Volksentscheid Fahrrad initiative (VEF), launched in November 2015, has within a very short time kindled an unprecedented public debate...
Tim Birkholz|Nov, 2016
A View from Newcastle
Let me introduce myself. I grew up in Germany but exchanged Braunschweig, my place of birth and study, for Newcastle in North England,...
Katja Leyendekker|Oct, 2016
Jan Gehl – Cities for People
Jan Gehl – Architect, Urban Planner, Visionary and Humanist Jan Gehl is an experienced architect and urban planner from Copenhagen with a very...
Beatrix Wupperman|Oct, 2016
A Brief History of the -Ize’s
It's taken a while - over three years in fact - but finally a Bremenize blog has gone live. The idea was hatched in early 2013, as we discussed...
Richard Grassick|Sep, 2016