GUESS WE GONNA HAVE TO BUILD DODGE RAM TRUCKS IN A SMALLER FACTORY BOIS THOSE CLEVER EUROPEANS GOT US AGAIN
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Whoever wrote this does not know anything about berlins policymakers...
I thought they used the metric system? Everything is so Americanized now they just refer to things in multiples of Manhattans?
In fact we use Saarland as the official measuring unit. One Saarland is ≈ 43 Manhattans. Or, to be more precise, one Manhattan is 23 Millisaarlands.
2.3 Centisaarlands for people in construction
Football fields were the compromise
But there too you have imperial football fields and metric ones, with an imperial one being 0,745 metric ones.
"American Football" is such a mouthful.
The CDU and SPD see cars as sacrosanct, and Germans living in the outskirts are not only world-class car brains but are literally the source of the car problem for central Berlin while not suffering from 90% of the consequences.
If everyone in the city got a vote I would say there was a chance, but since it's going to be the Germans only, I don't see it happening.
All EU citizens can vote in local ballot measures. That’s obviously a minority compared to non-EU citizens, but it’s something.
The problem is that Berlin is a Land, so it doesn't count as "local" for elections. For the same reason EU-citizens can't vote for the Abgeordnetenhaus (city assembly) of Berlin, only for the Bezirke.
Tja
Naja 😔
I've just been to Berlin last week. There are barely any cars in central Berlin anyway. Whatever they do it's already working.
They do lack pedestrian streets, but that's not the issue here.
I'm afraid this move will just be seen as politically antagonistic without any real benefits.
Did you happen to be there when traffic was blocked off in the centre, by any chance? Because there are shit tons of cars around usually.
There are barely any cars in central Berlin anyway.
Can you specify which "central" Berlin? the "center" or rather centers of Berlin are many and big. And most of them are choked full of cars. The government district and Tiergarten, which is a big park are a bit of an exception. Although there is the whole roundabout the Siegessäule with 5 or so three lanes per direction, streets leading off of it and regularly being full with traffic.
The center West around Zoologischer Garten and Kurfürstendamm is a complete car-brained nightmare and the center East around Alexanderplatz is until Brandenburger Tor is a bit less crazy but still quite a bit. However when you get to the streets leading up there, it is complete madness.
For the Siegessäule see the picture and imagine it to be mostly full.
Did you ride a bike? Berlin is good for pedestrians (in many parts) but often life-threatening for bikes.
There's defenetly worse urbanism in many other places but that doens't make ours good.
Berlin? Last week? No shit, me too!
I went to see Linkin Park 🤘
I'll agree that the traffic was not bad at all. I was expecting much worse! But given how good the public transport system is there, I think if I lived there I'd only ever use a car to travel out of Berlin rather than within it.
Found out about the concert when I tried to visit the Olympic stadium and it was closed for visitors 🙂