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IMAGO \/\u00a0Ralf Pollack<\/p>\nIMAGO \/\u00a0Ralf Pollack<\/p>\n
Monday, March 16<\/p>\n
In a guest article for Tagesspeigel, Kai Wegner (CDU) has sharply criticised the Berlin Autofrei (Berlin car-free) initiative. He has made it clear that he rejects the whole approach, stating, \u201cPolitics for a metropolis like Berlin must not function according to the principle of trial and error. Berlin doesn\u2019t need lifestyle experiments, instead it\u2019s about the realities of people\u2019s lives.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
In general, Berlin Autofrei wants to ban cars in the city centre. However, there are many exceptions. More specifically, almost all roads within the S-Bahn ring, apart from federal roads, would become \u2018auto-reduced roads\u2019.\u00a0<\/p>\n
This means that private car trips would be limited to twelve days per year. People with disabilities, police, rescue services, garbage collection as well as commercial and delivery traffic would still be allowed to drive in the centre.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Kai Wegner stated that it crosses a border and that the city needs solutions that unite, not \u201cideologies that exclude\u201d. He additionally claimed that car traffic does not simply disappear, and if the initiative prevailed, it would just relocate to other areas, causing economic consequences, possible job losses and the emigration of companies.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Wenger did not offer any concrete alternatives. The only clear point he made was, \u201cInstead of bans, more offers are needed, especially in local public transport.\u201d The Autofrei initiative began taking signatures on January 9 and now has about 30,000. However, they need 174,000 signatures by May 8 to reach a referendum. If you are a German citizen, you can sign it here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"IMAGO \/\u00a0Ralf Pollack Monday, March 16 In a guest article for Tagesspeigel, Kai Wegner (CDU) has sharply criticised…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":41579,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[99],"tags":[112,21605,23495,190,38,6553],"class_list":["post-41578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-berlin","tag-berlin","tag-berlin-autofrei","tag-car-free-berlin","tag-germany","tag-news","tag-referendum"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/116241900878624794","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41578\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}