The Mitte district has decided to turn neighborhood blocks into a series. This is intended to get through traffic out of a total of twelve residential areas. A comment from BZ editor Stefan Peter.
When it comes to reducing car traffic, Berlin’s Greens like to rave about Barcelona. In the Catalan metropolis, neighborhoods were divided into traffic-calmed super blocks, and planters, benches and café tables were placed on the road.
Looks good in Barcelona, but not in Berlin. Here, neighborhood blocks are nothing more than a collection of ugly bollards. The fight against the car doesn’t care about aesthetics.
Even most parklets are a flop. Often dirty, rarely used. And the “meeting zone” Maaßenstraße is still just an expensive joke.
Berlin is not in the subtropics. Here people don’t sit outside in cafes all year round. Bullerbü’s eternal green dream cannot change that.