Road: adfc kurt the bicycle-friendly city
The bicycle club ADFC and federal minister of transport andreas scheuer (CSU) have awarded the 25 bicycle-friendly city of the federal republic of germany on tuesday. The crown of the ADFC bicycle climate test 2020, for the 230.Had voted 000 cycling nationwide, goes among the city with uber 100.000 inhabitants at karlsruhe with the school grade 3.1. The city has thus defended the first place in 2018 before munster (3.2) and freiburg (3.4).
In the class of the city over 500.000 inhabitants lies bremen with the no longer fully satisfactory rating 3.6 rank 1, closely followed by hannover (3.7). With the same note frankfurt pushes in 3 place, where it turns leipzig. Berlin received one "special price for handproof improvements" during the corona pandemic, after the senate administration in the capital since the spring had set up many pop up bike paths.
Auber dresden and bremen have all the city over 500.000 inhabitants of 2018 improved slightly from 4.08 to 4.02. Also in munchen, stuttgart and dusseldorf noticed the cycling "hand-proof signals for more bike-friendliness" in the disease. To do this, you pay mails like the establishment of bicycle straws, traffic-calmed zones or bollards for protection against through traffic. In dusseldorf and frankfurt, the participants praised better control of false parks on cycle paths.
Wettringen creates 2.0
Good notes received only smaller municipalities in class up to 20.000 residents like wettringen (2.0), reken and rutesheim. At communities over 50.000 residents cut nordhorn with 2.6 best. Overall, the satisfaction of the cycling remains with the average grade 3.9 for its local locations at a low level. 80 percent of respondents find bike paths too narrow. For 75 percent, lack of false park controls are a problem. 69 percent generally can not be sure when cycling.
Two thirds of the participants said that corona increased the importance of the bicycle. The sales figures in the bicycle trade with sales increases of around 60 percent last year. On the urban paying agents have been paid much more cyclists since the outbreak of the pandemic. Hand-proof improvements for cycling during the pandemic, most respondents did not see them: they gave the overall grade 5.0.
Party politics
"We now need flat cycling networks across the country", demanded ADFC vice chairman rebecca peters. "The window of the opportunity is open-time open." lander and municipalities had to lift money from the programs for infrastructure expansion "urban and countryside" as "wheel network germany" to use. "The money is here", ared scouring, "by 2023, we provide the record amount of 1.46 billion euros."
"Running road and cycling are progressing, not because of andreas scheuer’s transport policy", explained the transport policy spokesman of the green bundestag faction, stefan yellow hair. The means the minister "coarse to donate for cycling, only a fraction of what the federal government is in the strain construction".
Scheuer’s strain compact regulations, which should bring a few improvements for cycling "factually ineffective". The funds for cycling must continue to increase and above all beings. The bicycle climate test is the wellty survey to the satisfaction of cycling worldwide. Overall, the current ninth edition 1024 came into the rating.
