Traffic

When you live in a global pandemic that complicates life, and when a war in Europe makes the energy prices and the inflation increase substantially at the same time, rising parking fees are just what you need, right? At least that is what the Berlin Senate seems to believe.

Schönhauser Allee connects Berlin's eastern city center to the Pankow borough. On this important traffic artery, the distribution of space will change. There…

The Easter Vacations just began. Of course, this is good news. But the situation at BER Airport and on Germany's Autobahnen (plural) is not.

Berliners are great people. Most of us are kind, smart, helpful and gifted. Unfortunately, there is something else we Berliners seem to have in common: We are terrible drivers.

Germany's General German Automobile Association (ADAC) says there will be more Christmas traffic on the country's roads than there was last year. But the…

Germany continues to be the only country that does not have a general speed limit on its freeways, the famous 'Autobahn'. For now. My prediction is that this…

In Berlin, the Bundesrat just approved an increase of penalties for speeding and other traffic violations. Many of them will double soon.

The Berlin Police Department has caught more than 18,000 traffic participants who were responsible for offenses in September alone. Does anyone actually adhere…

In the early 1970s, the oil crisis hit. West Germany introduced 'Car-Free Sundays' because the world thought the oil was running out. Five decades later, today,…

It is a giant leap for mankind: Berlin's network of bike lanes is supposed to grow substantially. Priority bike lanes, a supplemental bike lane network and bicycle highways will be included.