‘The car belongs in Berlin’: city backpedaling on bike-friendly policies, critics say

Berlin can join the ranks of great motoring cities like Houston, Texas and such

It’s a real pity. When the pop-up bicycle lanes came up a few years ago it seemed like a great positive direction that other cities could follow, sad that they’re backpedaling on being more bicycle-friendly

The planet is overrun by unsustainable, irrational privilege with cars being the most visible and probably most flagrant waste of resources, land, life, etc.

The thing with these kind of changes, like bike-friendly infrastructure, is that it happens so glacially slow that it is often invisible to the naked eye. But it happens. Take a city like Munich and compare photos of roads now and 20 or 30 years ago, and you see how much changed.

But there is no question that we need to go faster.