Beautiful is different, that’s right. The fact that more and more bollards are being erected in Berlin is not entirely aesthetic, for example on Horstweg in Charlottenburg (more here in our district newsletter). But one thing is also clear: where there is no bollard, there is tin. Or it rolls.
Drivers in Berlin seem to think that public space belongs to them: squares, cycle paths and sidewalks, street corners, crossings, fire brigade access roads, even tree discs and green areas are driven on and parked.
And if the bollards aren’t close enough, some small car can still fit through as recently in the Prinzregentenstraße. And if the bollards aren’t anchored firmly enough, then King Car takes it upon itself to take them out and drives through triumphantly, as well as on the Prinzregentenstrasse or last between Wittenbergplatz and Lietzenburger Strasse.
This expansive obtrusiveness is the result of decades of laisser-faire, a “Berlin line” that shows every understanding for car traffic and loses sight of everything else. As long as the police and politicians don’t change course, there will be bollards.
And quite honestly: are Wagenburgen aus Blech, which, for example, enclose Barbarossaplatz twice, prettier than the red and white row on Horstweg?
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Here are a few more topics that you can find in the current newsletter for Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf from the Tagesspiegel, which you can order here free of charge:
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- New corona rules, more vaccination offers and restrictions on bus traffic
- From affordable rents to the traffic turnaround – this will be important in the district this year
- Interesting topics of the next BVV meeting
- The “German Disney”: book author reminds of cartoon director
- Neighborhood protests against office building
- Traffic calming disrupts intersection
- The “.Hidden Museum” presented forgotten female artists – now it opens up in another museum
- Literaturwoche im Theater
- Civic association at Rüdesheimer Platz is dissolved
- Newsletter Author: Cay Dobberke
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The Tagesspiegel newsletter is available for all twelve districts of Berlin, with around 260,000 subscriptions. In it we inform you once a week in a bundled and compact way about what’s going on in your district. We also often let readers have their say in the newsletters, after all nobody knows Berlin’s neighborhoods as well as the people who live there.
