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Aufbruch Fahrrad is a project to strengthen cycling in North Rhine-Westphalia .

Aufbruch Fahrrad was started in autumn 2016 by the non-profit association RADKOMM eV in Cologne. Aufbruch Fahrrad consists of three elements: A broad campaign for more cycling; the campaign alliance Aufbruch Fahrrad, to which 215 civil society clubs and associations belong, and the Volksinitiative Aufbruch Fahrrad, which has collected 206,687 signatures in NRW and is the first popular initiative in NRW that was unanimously approved by the state parliament.

Background and course

The idea for Aufbruch Fahrrad came up in June 2016 at the mobility congress RADKOMM 2 in Cologne. At the RADKOMM 2016, representatives of the Bicycle Berlin referendum presented their project. Inspired by the referendum Fahrrad Berlin, the idea of ​​a campaign and collection of signatures for bicycle traffic for NRW was born. The RADKOMM eV team in Cologne started Aufbruch Fahrrad in autumn 2016. The RADKOMM team developed the brand and the logo for Aufbruch Fahrrad, the slogan “25% by 2025” and formulated nine demands for strengthening bike mobility in North Rhine-Westphalia. These nine demands also form the basis for the later popular initiative Aufbruch Fahrrad. In 2017, RADKOMM eV began to forge the campaign alliance Aufbruch Fahrrad. The action alliance grew rapidly and currently (2020) comprises 215 civil society clubs and associations, including the nature conservation associations BUND NRW, NABU NRW, Deutsche Umwelthilfe and many local citizens' initiatives. In autumn 2017 the General German Bicycle Club NRW joined the action alliance and took over the project management together with RADKOMM eV. The VCD NRW is also part of the action alliance, as are the numerous local and district associations of the ADFC and VCD.

On May 22, 2018, Ute Symanski, chairwoman of RADKOMM eV, registered the popular initiative with the NRW regional return officer. This made Ute Symanski the person of trust for the popular initiative. Aufbruch Fahrrad is the first popular initiative in NRW that was registered by a woman. Thomas Semmelmann, chairman of the ADFC NRW became deputy confidant.

As part of the RADKOMM 4 congress on June 16, 2018, the signature collection for Aufbruch Fahrrad started. At the start, all cycling decisions from all over Germany that had existed up to that point were included.

Numerous celebrities such as Charlotte Roche , Eckhart von Hirschhausen, the makers of the Sendung mit der Maus, Günter Wallraff and Mikael Colville-Andersen supported Aufbruch Fahrrad with testimonials or video messages.

The collection of signatures was officially ended on June 1, 2019 at the RADKOMM 5 congress. The number of signatures collected was also announced there: In 12 months, the activists collected 206,687 signatures. 66,000 signatures would have been required for the popular initiative to have been successful. This meant that almost four times as many signatures were collected as were needed. On June 2, 2019, the collected signatures were symbolically handed over by 6000 cyclists to NRW Environment Minister Ursula Heinen-Esser as part of the NRW rally.

On October 2, 2019, the North Rhine-Westphalia Transport Committee invited the confidants Ute Symanski and Thomas Semmelmann to a hearing in the state parliament. On November 19, 2019, the North Rhine-Westphalia Transport Committee unanimously adopted a popular initiative for the first time in its history and decided to recommend that the Landtag plenum accept and agree to the popular initiative Aufbruch Fahrrad. In its meeting on December 18, 2019, the plenary session of the state parliament followed this recommendation. The state parliament approved the popular initiative Aufbruch Fahrrad and commissioned the Ministry of Transport to draw up a bicycle law for North Rhine-Westphalia. The popular initiative Aufbruch Fahrrad has thus achieved all of the goals it set itself.

The Aufbruch Fahrrad project was awarded 2nd place at the German Bicycle Prize in the communication category on February 27, 2020.

Aims and demands of Aufbruch Fahrrad

Aufbruch Fahrrad wants to put NRW in a spirit of optimism for a turnaround towards sustainable mobility, strengthen the civil society network for bicycle mobility and increase the proportion of bicycle traffic in NRW from 8% to 25% by 2025. Another goal of Aufbruch Fahrrad is that NRW gets a cycling law. The aim is that nine measures to promote bicycle mobility are implemented and anchored in a bicycle law for NRW:

  1. More traffic safety on roads and bike paths
  2. NRW promotes more bicycle traffic
  3. 1000 kilometers of cycle superhighways for commuting
  4. 300 kilometers of national bike paths per year
  5. Bicycle roads and bicycle infrastructure in the municipalities
  6. More bicycle expertise in the ministries and authorities
  7. Free transport on local transport
  8. Bicycle parking and e-bike stations
  9. Promotion of cargo bikes

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c aufbruch-fahrrad.de. Radkomm eV, accessed on March 2, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Maria Gambino: Radkomm Congress in Cologne : More signatures for cycling than ever before. June 3, 2019, accessed on March 2, 2020 (German).
  3. ↑ People for departure bike. In: Departure Bicycle. Retrieved on March 2, 2020 (German).
  4. ↑ Clean mobility does not end with the bicycle. In: Morgenecho. WDR 5, October 3, 2019, accessed on March 16, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Düsseldorf Fahrrad: Around 5000 cyclists came to the ADFC rally in front of the Landtag / Verkehr / Düsseldorf / report-d.de - Düsseldorf Internet newspaper. Retrieved March 2, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Bicycle law required in the traffic committee of the NRW state parliament - General German Bicycle Club NRW - Landesverband Nordrhein-Westfalen e. V. Accessed March 2, 2020 .
  7. ^ Aachener Zeitung: For more cyclists on the streets: NRW should get a bicycle law. Retrieved March 2, 2020 .
  8. ^ BMVI AGFS: Specialist award »The German Bicycle Prize. Retrieved on March 2, 2020 (German).