Greens doubt the legal basis for Schreiner's cycle path stop in Berlin

Greens doubt the legal basis for Schreiner's cycle path stop in Berlin

Transport in Berlin-Greens have legal doubts about Schreiner's cycle path stop

The Greens in the House of Representatives question the legality of the partial stop of cycling projects in Berlin by traffic senator Manja Schreiner. "It becomes clear that the instruction for the cycle path stop is lacking in technical foundations," said the traffic policy spokeswoman for the Green Oda Hasse fun. It refers to a parliamentary request that is available to the RBB. In the document, the mobility administration is asked on the legal basis on which it is linked to the suspension of cycle path planning.

In the answer, the administration of Senator Schreiner refers to paragraph 9 of the state budget regulations. However, this paragraph deals with "representative for the household". There is no question of medium closures. "There is no legal basis for such a flat-rate parking lot," concludes traffic politician Hasse fun. "The response from the Senate Department exposes that the requirement was purely politically and ideologically motivated. No order can also be brought to the chaos of the CDU traffic senator through concrete inquiries."

Senior representative center criticizes Schreiner's approach

Criticism of the Senator's policy also comes from another side. The senior representative in the Mitte district only describes it as a "weak consolation" that after a first review, numerous projects continue, but others are still subject to reservation. "Every completed and not released cycle path and every planned and not built bike path means a" repression effect towards the Bürgersteig "and thus more dangerous situations for foot traffic", the senior representatives warn. In the interest of their "individual mobility", older people as well as children and parents are "absolutely dependent" on safe bike paths, write to the ruling mayor and the traffic senator.

For carpenters, the letter from the seniors is not the only letter that she reaches these days. The Turmstrasse district representative also shows itself in an email "to the greatest degree". The committee reacts to the provisional end for a bike strip on Beusselstrasse in Moabit. As a result, the loss of several 100,000 euros in funding from the federal government. The district representative not only commemorates the "promise of a new cooperation" on the streets. Delays and resignation in cycle path construction "our and the security of our fellow human beings are also unnecessarily endangered for years," it continues.

broadcast: rbb24 Inforadio, 13.0.2023, 7 p.m.