On the Streets of Berlin, Bicycles Have Enriched City Life — and Stoked Backlash [insideclimatenews.org]

^{The bicycle lanes on Kottbusser Damm in Berlin started as a pop-up and have since been made permanent. Credit: Dan Gearino}

By Dan Gearino, Inside Climate News, August 24, 2023

One of my first impressions upon returning to Berlin after four years was that there were more bicycles than before.

Bicycles were just about everywhere, on streets and sidewalks, in parks and carried onto trains.

The growth of bicycle traffic followed two big events. First was a law passed in 2018 by the equivalent of the state legislature that required a major increase in construction of bicycle lanes. Second was the Covid-19 pandemic, which contributed to an increase in bicycle ownership across Germany and in many other places.

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