Berlin's turnaround in danger: Protest against massive reduction plan!

Pendler in Berlin sind empört über geplante Kürzungen im ÖPNV. Proteste gegen Sparmaßnahmen der Regierung nehmen zu.
Commuters in Berlin are outraged by planned cuts in public transport. Protests against the government's austerity measures are increasing. (Symbolbild/MB)

Berlin's turnaround in danger: Protest against massive reduction plan!

In Berlin it is bubbling! The BVG passengers currently suffer from massive traffic problems, which are shaped by daily delays and failures. A new wave of the protest is formed after it became known that the red-black coalition under Mayor Kai Wegner will have to save adventurous three billion euros in the coming year. This primarily affects public transport, including the deletion of 150 million euros, which irrevocably abolish the popular 29-euro ticket and lets two tram lines stand on the brink, such as berlin-live.de reported. The Anger of the Berliners is inevitable - many feel about the planned cuts in transport and urgently demand changes.

Public outrage is now reaching a new highlight: While politics is fighting with scarce budgets, the focus on environmentally friendly means of transport remains blurred. Many passengers, including users on social media, express their resentment about the coalition's decisions that continue to take the car, while important environmentally friendly projects are endangered. At the same time, more than 100,000 people across Germany move to the streets to protest the increasingly more radical alternative for Germany (AfD). Like Straitstimes.com , supports thousands, supported by voices from politics and sport, against the ideas of a party that recently the masses of deportation of migrants has discussed.

The simultaneous mobilization against the AfD and the outrage about the traffic measures shows how people in Germany are currently under pressure and raise their voices loudly. The outcry against the AfD could trigger the same wave of outrage, which is also reinforced against the cuts in local public transport. It remains to be seen how the coalition will react to the pressure and whether it is possible to preserve both the turnover of traffic and the social and democratic values ​​in society.

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