Transforming the transport landscape. It requires a move away from the male-dominated transport professions, and an embrace of other perspectives. To achieve a just transport transition, citizens need to actively use the tools of a democratic society.
Sielwall - young men with overly-souped up cars race through it, and local politicians are finally seeing this as the danger that it is. Now the Sielwall and all four roads which lead to the so-called Sielwalleck are to be closed to car traffic up to 80 metres in each direction on weekend nights, thus eliminating through traffic. This is good. But instead of just closing short stretches of road temporarily, the Sielwalleck and the Sielwall need to be reconsidered and redesigned, for every...
Why we need empathy on the road, or what does „Black Lives Matter“ and the current discourse on systemic racism have in common with...
A transport transition needs to be attractive as well as contributing to safer cycling and walking . How could that work? A cycle street...
Platz Da! (There's Space!) Bremen has collected 6,000 signatures in the Hanseatic city and held endless debates with politicians to make more...
Sielwall - young men with overly-souped up cars race through it, and local politicians are finally seeing this as the danger that it is. Now the...
The new Draft Agreement on Cooperation in a Government Coalition for Bremen, 2019-2023 (from now on here called Koa Treaty) promises to install...
English subtitles available. Click the subtitles icon towards the bottom right of the screen. With Bremen's state election looming next year, and...
Where now for the Bremen Bündnis für die Verkehrswende? Last month’s packed Car Parking conference certainly generated significant media...
With the recent publication of proposals for comprehensive parking management by Bremen's Transport Transition coalition, there’s been...
We’ve had enough! More and more cars fill our streets, less and less space for everyone else. So what could a CarSharing (Car Club) system...
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...
Richard Grassick|May, 2019
After this week’s Buten un Binnen Wahl Lokal broadcast failed to address the self-proclaimed second most important issue in the forthcoming...
Beatrix Wupperman|May, 2019
Bremen’s Transport Development Plan is again under attack from the car-friendly city brigade. Just a few weeks after it decided to...
Wolfgang Köhler-Naumann|Mar, 2019
Our contributor Katja Leyendecker presented an outline of her dissertation during a visit to Bremen and the Geographische Gesellschaft, Bremen on...
Richard Grassick|Jan, 2019
It's National Illegal Parking Week in Germany. As part of a series of actions in Bremen, the Bremen Alliance for A Transport Transition sent the...
Wolfgang Köhler-Naumann|Jun, 2018
or: How the Germans could become more beautiful and happier (Ricarda Huch) “I believe that if all Germans cycled, they would lose their dull...
Beatrix Wupperman|Jul 14, 2021
I’m profoundly disturbed by the notion that, as an experienced cyclist, I “should” ride in mixed traffic alongside cars and trucks. Doing so...
Anne Kirkham|Jan 20, 2020
(Click on CC to choose English subtitles) The hilarious everyday experience of transport campaigns in Bremen (an extract) - Temporary play...
Richard Grassick|Oct 2, 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...
Gudrun Eickelberg|Aug 28, 2018
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...
Anne Kirkham|Nov 27, 2017
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