Car thief in Friedrichshain - police find stolen vehicle!

Yesterday there was a spectacular incident in Friedrichshain, Berlin,: police officers arrested a suspected car thief. At around 1:40 p.m., the latter had parked a platform truck on the side of the road on Massower Straße to unload building materials. When the 42-year-old owner returned, his car was already on. With the help of the GPS location service, the police were able to quickly locate the vehicle in Petersburger Strasse. There it turned out that the 32-year-old perpetrator refused to leave the car, which led to the use of coercion. The thief was then taken into police custody and the stolen vehicle could certainly be returned to the owner, such as berlin.de reported.

A look at the automotive roots of Berlin shows how the city has changed in the past decade. More than 120 years ago there were hardly any cars in the city, and the first officially approved vehicle, a Benz with the license plate A-1, was more of a kind of carriage than a modern car. It is known that this historic vehicle had its first test run in 1892 and that the streets that were then fulfilled at the time could hardly be disturbed. A report of the Tagesspiegel emphasizes that the traffic situation has since changed dramatically. The space on the streets is becoming increasingly scarce over the years, cars are everywhere, and the air quality suffers significantly from the increased traffic.

traffic transition and their challenges

The turnaround of traffic, which many are required, is said to benefit pedestrians and cyclists and distribute the street space more fairly. While the Senate is under pressure to move, the proportion of cars in Berlin has increased further. At the beginning of 2018, more than 1.2 million vehicles were counted. Despite the movement towards electric vehicles, road traffic remains overloaded, since delivery services in urban traffic have also increased massively. The reality in Berlin is characterized by paradoxical mobility - on the one hand the urge to more environmentally friendly options, on the other hand, holding onto the car that dominates the cityscape.