Stopping the bike path in Berlin: The Senate threatens further legal proceedings after a citizen announces a lawsuit

Stopping the bike path in Berlin: The Senate threatens further legal proceedings after a citizen announces a lawsuit

cycle path stop in Berlin: Further legal proceedings are threatened with the Senate

The conversion of the main street in Schöneberg with protected cycling strips was stopped by Senator Schreiner. A citizen now threatens with a lawsuit.

In the conflict about the traffic policy of the new Senate, there could be another legal dispute. A citizen has asked the Senate to stop the stop of the conversion of the main street in Schöneberg. If the transport administration does not commit to set up protected cycling strips within a certain period of time, it will submit a lawsuit. This was announced by the German environmental aid, which supports the citizens, on Friday. A procedure for Ollenhauerstrasse in Reinickendorf is already pending at the administrative court. There, a affected citizen calls for the already fully built, but to be released as invalid cycling lanes. In this case there could now be a turn, according to the German environmental aid.

for years there was argument, challenged and finally planned. Now the project is located in the main street in Schöneberg the road space between the Kleistpark underground station and the Dominicusstraße. Protected cycling strips should make cycling more secure on this section of federal road 1. This requires that the bus traces are laid from the right lane on the middle lanes. This is intended to accelerate traffic on the M48 and other lines. The remaining motor vehicle traffic is available to the left lane, there are currently two lanes each. Delivery parking zones are also planned in the planning of the district office.

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The project in the main street is ready for implementation, says Saskia Ellenbeck (Greens), the city councilor responsible for the streets in Tempelhof-Schöneberg. The federal government has agreed to bear three quarters of around one million euros from the construction costs of around one million euros. So it could actually start. But the Senate Transport Management stopped the project. Although exams and votes have already taken place, Senator Manja Schreiner (CDU) has the project examined again. Among other things, it is about how the conversion would affect traffic - including the dormant car traffic.

cyclists and other supporters of the mobility transition have already demonstrated several times. Now the judiciary is also concerned with this matter, with German environmental aid assisting and supporting again by one of its lawyers. "A personally affected citizen applied for the Senate Department to immediately implement and release the cycle path already ordered on the main street in Berlin-Schöneberg," said the environmental aid. "If the application is not met within the one -month period, lawsuit will be raised."

In the communication, the citizen who is now asking the Senate Department to act is quoted. "The main street in Schöneberg is one of the most important routes in the district and school of many children for cyclists," he said. "At the same time, she is one of the most dangerous streets in Schöneberg - only a few years ago, a cyclist was killed in an accident. The bike path already arranged would be a bright spot for all people in the district and must come."

is there a release of the bike path in Ollenhauerstrasse?

"A purely politically motivated stop of a cycle path that was planned, financed and arranged and which was considered important for traffic safety until a few weeks ago, is a illegal, symbolic act in the ideological struggle of the CDU against bike paths," commented the German environmental aid.

In the case of the invalid cycling lane in Reinickendorf, a new development is emerging, it said on Friday. "The Senate Department apparently plans to release the initially blocked cycle path on Ollenhauerstrasse, as it became known late Thursday evening." This will be done immediately after an personally affected environmental aid employed an urgent application before the administrative court last week. After its entrance, the court had obliged the Reinickendorf district office to disclose all administrative processes by July 18 and to return the application.

Jürgen Resch, Federal Managing Director of German Environmental Aid, spoke of a “first success” on Friday. This is a "signal for the fair division of the concise traffic area, especially for the cyclists who come under the bikes much too often in Berlin. Immediately in front of the district and Senate set by the court. So far, 180,378 euros and five cents have been spent on the cycling lanes in Ollenhauerstrasse, the new Mobility Secretary Claudia Elif Stutz (CDU) of the Greens MP Oda Hasse Pass said on a request. The federal government has agreed to carry three quarters of the city and country funding program - around 135,000 euros.

"The measure supports the safety and lightness of foot traffic and increases the safety and lightness of bicycle traffic," says Stutz. The district office announced that the work on the wheel lane "has not been terminated with regard to the system of delivery zones". It is planned to release the lanes located on the left of the bicycle traffic facilities during low -traffic times.

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The concept for the cycle path was the responsibility of the Greens politician Korinna Stephan, then city councilor for the streets. The Greens in the district are now afraid that the project's stop also harms the economy that rely on delivery areas. "Obviously, the construction of the charging zone and the planning for parking on the medium strip were encouraged in order to then torpedo the project as a whole," said district prescribed Jens Augner.

"The blocking of the finished bike path on Ollenhauerstrasse is not understandable. The traffic safety comes under the bikes. One thing is clear: the blocking of a safe cycle path does not lead to the fact that people on the bike safely on the road