From Hildburg Bruns
After only ten months, the coalition is crunching enormously.
Occasion: the open exchange of blows between two top women. At the next Senate session on Tuesday, there will be a power struggle between Bettina Jarasch (53, Greens) and Franziska Giffey (44, SPD).
It’s about the blocking of 500 meters of Friedrichstrasse for a year. At that time, a traffic attempt ended, but Jarasch left the prohibition signs standing. The administrative court dismissed them for it, calling it illegal.
The administrative court called the blocking of Friedrichstrasse for cars illegal. Reason: The traffic test has long since expired Photo: Olaf Selchow
The governing Giffey now insists on implementing the judge’s decision. Traffic Senator Jarasch then assumed that she did not exactly understand the verdict. Even the Greens called this statement “highly clumsy” yesterday.
In 14 days, when it is legally binding, cars could roll again for at least two or three months. But only if Jarasch does NOT lodge a complaint with the next instance. Your lawyers are still investigating. “If there is a chance of success, you should go this route as a sign that you are committed to the traffic turnaround,” says Antje Kapek (46), traffic expert for the Greens parliamentary group.
The government and the senator seem to agree at least on the goal: both spoke of a promenade on Wednesday.
But Giffey is calling for a new concept involving residents that will calm traffic and upgrade Friedrichstrasse as a whole. The government to the BZ: “It must meet the level of a modern European metropolis.”
No matter how the dispute ends on Tuesday: As early as January, the end of motor vehicle traffic between Leipziger and Französischer Strasse could be cemented for all future. Because the Mitte district has been running a so-called de-designation process since mid-September.