2023-06-27 20:47:14
HomeBerlinWhat I experienced this morning on Brückenstrasse when I spoke to a parking offender
Our author registers a change in mood on the street. It seems to them as if drivers in Berlin smelled the morning air.
Suzanne Lenz
Apparently en vogue again: cars parked on cycle paths. Steinach/Imago
My commute to work takes me every morning through Brückenstrasse in Mitte. There is a bike path there, which is really great and makes my life easier. Just like any bike path. Even if after the weekend everything in front of the KitKat Club is often full of broken glass, to which even my flatless tires sometimes capitulate.
But this bike path is often full of parked cars, especially in the morning. Then there are delivery vehicles, DHL vans, and also normal cars, and I have to repeatedly switch to the lane and drive a dangerous slalom on the bridge road.
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After I had already dodged a white van there this morning, a small blue car came parked on the bike path. The man in the driver’s seat, around 30, three-day beard, white T-shirt, was busy swiping on his cell phone, the window was open. I stopped briefly and said to him: “You’re standing on the bike path.” He snapped at me: “What do you want!” away.” – yours. A single possessive pronoun symbolizing camp thinking.
The power struggle between motorists and cyclists
It wasn’t the first time I noticed this change in mood. Only the clearest. It seems as if the Berlin motorists smelled the morning air, as if they had the upper hand again in what many perceive as a pure power struggle – the relationship between car drivers and cyclists in Berlin. It’s as if they are blatantly ignoring the rules that are supposed to enable peaceful coexistence between them and the cyclists.
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I attribute this to the actions of the new transport senator from the CDU, Manja Schreiner. She has asked the districts to suspend the planning and construction of cycle paths for the time being. Everything is put to the test. Nonsensical projects should be stopped, several car parking spaces at once should not have to give way to a cycle path. The planned cycle path on Ollenhauer Straße in Reinickendorf was a particular focus because it was almost finished. The white signs on the asphalt that mark the cycle path have now been pasted over with yellow crosses – no bikes should drive here, instead cars can park again. The illegal parker who threw his sentence at me that morning must also have heard about it. Bike lanes to parking lots. That’s how quickly politics can have an impact on the street.
Is that the idea, Manja Schreiner? If not, please provide effective information as soon as possible.
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