Berlin streets for everyone!

Since the beginning of 2019, PowerShift has been coordinating "Berliner Straßen für Alle" as a new network of environmental and mobility policy initiatives in Berlin. At the heart of our common demands is the vision of a climate-friendly and livable city. It is not car traffic, but people's needs that determine the use of public space. You can read about how this can become a reality in our position paper.

We are building on the Mobility Act passed by the state of Berlin and want to further develop the transport transition. The Mobility Act for the first time the priority of walking, cycling and public transport. For this, the currently completely preferred mode of transport 'car' must be pushed back. The dominance of car traffic not only reduces air quality, safety and quality of life, but also captures public space and makes it less usable and unattractive for non-motorists. Berlin must "liberate" itself from the car as a private car - and redistribute public space.

Our standard of success: The halving of the number of cars in Berlin every 10 years and thus the creation of new mobility and living spaces for the people of this city.

Our campaign for the conversion of parking spaces
Campaign material for printing and ordering - door/wheel trailer

Help to advance the urban transport transition! If you want to draw attention to our promotion for meeting places in converted parking spaces, then order our free bike / door hangers.

Campaign material for ordering - Bicycle vest

Safety with message, the PowerShift cycling vest. For a safe ride in the dark hours of the day. One size (XL) for everyone! Two reflective stripes and Velcro fastener increase visibility and comfort.

Campaign material for printing and ordering - Flyer

Help to advance the urban transport transition! If you would like to draw attention to our promotion for meeting places in converted parking spaces, then order our free flyers.

Campaign material for printing and ordering - position paper

Help to advance the urban transport transition! If you want to draw attention to our demands, then order our free posting paper or download it.

Campaign material for ordering - stickers

Help to advance the urban transport transition! Do you want to draw attention to the topic? Then order our free stickers today.

 

Campaign material for ordering - action kit

Help to advance the urban transport transition! With our free action kit, you can take the traffic turn in your neighborhood to the streets. (Content: Road template, poster, seed paper, flyer, bike trailer, sticker and chalk)

 

Open Letter to the Senate

Associations call for safe mobility during Corona: In order to ensure the mobility of people in Berlin even during the corona pandemic and to make it safe and as contagious as possible, the alliance ‘Berliner Straßen für alle’ calls for a Berlin-wide network of temporary cycling infrastructure, more space for foot traffic and 30 km/h on main roads.

 

Action video: Finally tackle the traffic turnaround!

There are 1.2 million cars in Berlin. Why car transport is at the heart of an unjust transport policy and what raw material problems it causes in countries in the Global South is shown in our short action video entitled ‘Tackling the turnaround in transport at last’.

Interviews: Berlin streets for everyone!

We have recorded four short videos with actors of the Alliance “Berliner Straßen für alle” (Berlin Streets for All). Activists from Changing Cities, the ADFC, Greenpeace and PowerShift answer the question: Why does Berlin need more bike paths? What is the relationship between cars and raw materials? What are the advantages of playgrounds? What needs to happen to make Berlin's transport transition faster?

Podcast on Transport

Under the following link you will find a podcast with voices about the traffic turnaround. We spoke with Cléo Mieulet from Extinction Rebellion Berlin, Christoph Keller from Parking Transform and Peter Fuchs from PowerShift / the alliance "Berliner Straßen für alle" about their ideas of fair mobility and their demands on Berlin politics.

Contact person

Photo by Peter Fuchs

Peter Fuchs

Managing Director/ Climate & & Resource Justice
+49 (0)177 633 4900

This campaign will be implemented with the financial support of the European Union. PowerShift e.V. is solely responsible for the content of the campaign and does not reflect the position of the European Union.

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