Bicycle referendum initiative

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The initiative Volksentscheid Fahrrad (also " Radentscheid ") advocates a traffic turnaround and the creation of a law to promote cycling ("Radgesetz") in Berlin . On June 14, 2016, she submitted the motion for a referendum for a “safe and comfortable cycling infrastructure” to the Berlin Senate . Since the Senate largely accepted the demands in negotiations with the initiative and other civil society groups, the initiative decided not to carry out the referendum. As a result of the procedure, the Berlin House of Representatives passed the Berlin Mobility Act on June 28, 2018 .

Citizens' Initiative

The sponsor and financial basis of the civic initiative launched in Berlin in 2016 is Changing Cities e. V. (formerly Network Livable Cities e.V.). The Berlin initiator Heinrich Strossenreuther founded the association and the initiative and was its board member until September 2017. According to the statutes, the purpose of the association, which is dependent on donations, is “to promote a) the democratic state, b) the formation of democracy, c) civic engagement for the benefit of charitable purposes”. As a guiding principle, the association has a city that is not dominated by traffic noise, in which mobility is available to all people in the same way and which is safe, comfortable, climate-friendly and barrier-free.

aims

  1. 350 km of safe bicycle roads also for children,
  2. Two meter wide bicycle traffic facilities on every main road,
  3. Make 75 dangerous crossings safe per year,
  4. Transparent, quick and effective elimination of defects,
  5. 200,000 times bicycle parking at public transport stops and streets,
  6. 50 green waves for bikes,
  7. 100 km of cycle routes for commuting,
  8. Bicycle squadrons and a bicycle theft investigation team,
  9. More planning and central bicycle departments,
  10. Sensitize Berlin to more bicycle traffic.

development

In Berlin, referendums must go through the three-stage Berlin people's legislative process with an application for the implementation of a referendum , the request itself and any subsequent decision. In order to successfully apply for a referendum, at least 20,000 valid signatures from Berliners entitled to vote must be collected over a period of six months and presented to the Senate Administration. Since the referendum aims to enact a law, a substantiated bill must also be attached to the application .

The bicycle referendum initiative collected 105,425 signatures in three and a half weeks. This makes it Berlin's fastest referendum, both in preparation and in the collecting phase. 70 to 80 percent of the signatures for the bicycle referendum initiative were obtained from third-party collectors by downloading the lists online.

The plan of the successful initiative was to be the first federal state to pass a cycling law together with the red-red-green Senate of Berlin . The project was originally supposed to be implemented by autumn 2017. To this end, in the summer of 2017, a dialogue group made up of members of the Berlin government coalition, the bicycle referendum initiative and other partners negotiated common cornerstones for the draft bill of a holistic mobility law. According to this, the share of cycling in all distances covered within the urban environmental zone is to increase from currently 13% to 30% by 2025. In the entire state of Berlin, the proportion is to increase to 20%. In addition, Berlin is committed to Vision Zero , i.e. to reduce the number of road deaths to zero. During the joint negotiation rounds, the initiative sharply criticized the Senate several times for alleged delays. In August 2017, the completed draft for the first nationwide mobility law was submitted to the Berlin Senate for voting. On October 12, 2017, the Berlin Senator for Transport, Regine Günther, announced in an interview that the planned date for the passage of the Mobility Act would be postponed.

On December 12, 2017, the Berlin Senate introduced the Mobility Act for the first reading, and on February 20, 2018, it decided to introduce the draft law on the revision of statutory provisions on ensuring mobility to the House of Representatives ; on June 28 of that year the House of Representatives passed the Berlin Mobility Act .

Local networks in the Berlin districts

In order to accompany and monitor the implementation of the initiative at the district level, Changing Cities e. V. formed local networks in the individual districts of Berlin. In the districts of Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg , Pankow , Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf , Tempelhof-Schöneberg , Steglitz-Zehlendorf and Mitte, groups based on the model of the cycle-friendly Neukölln network that preceded the bicycle referendum have been founded. The networks are partly close to the district groups of the ADFC . In addition to providing critical and constructive support for the district's traffic policy and planning, they jointly organize trips, demonstrations and minutes of silence for killed cyclists.

Referendum initiatives for cycling infrastructure in other cities

As a result of the success of the referendum for bicycle infrastructure in Berlin, initiatives for the implementation of “Radentscheid” referendums or referendums to improve the infrastructure for bicycle traffic have also been founded in other cities and federal states in Germany, partly with the support of the ADFC , Verkehrsclub Deutschland or Changing Cities. Initiatives have recently been started in the following cities and federal states:

Successful initiatives

Web links

Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ Martin Unfried : Politics must be scared . In: taz.FUTURZWEI . No. 6 . taz Verlags- u. Vertriebs-GmbH, September 11, 2018, ISSN  2513-1729 ( oekotainment.eu [accessed July 20, 2019] article on page 48).
  3. ↑ a b About us - Changing Cities e. V. Accessed on April 21, 2018 (German).
  4. ↑ 10 destinations - because Berlin is turning! In: Bicycle referendum . ( volksentscheid-fahrrad.de [accessed October 29, 2017]).
  5. ↑ Bicycle referendum sets a record with 105,425 signatures . In: Bicycle referendum . ( volksentscheid-fahrrad.de [accessed October 29, 2017]).
  6. ↑ Claudius Prößer: Germany's most successful cycling activist: “Me a Robin Hood? That fits ” . In: The daily newspaper: taz . June 23, 2018, ISSN  0931-9085 ( taz.de [accessed June 25, 2018]).
  7. ↑ Bicycle traffic dialogue / State of Berlin. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on November 7, 2017 ; accessed on October 29, 2017 .
  8. ↑ Referendum: Berlin gets a wheel law . In: The time . April 6, 2017, ISSN  0044-2070 ( zeit.de [accessed October 29, 2017]).
  9. ↑ Referendum on bicycles lets lawyers examine the bill on the Internet. Retrieved October 29, 2017 .
  10. ↑ Project Tempo 30 is making slow progress. Retrieved October 29, 2017 .
  11. ^ General German Bicycle Club eV: ADFC | Draft for the wheel law in the Berlin Senate . In: ADFC . ( adfc.de [accessed February 27, 2018]).
  12. ^ Draft of the Berlin Mobility Act for the 2nd reading at the Berlin Senate. (PDF) (No longer available online.) Senate Department for the Environment, Transport and Climate Protection, archived from the original on February 28, 2018 ; accessed on February 27, 2018 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.berlin.de
  13. ^ Berlin Senate adopts a draft of Germany's first mobility law. February 20, 2018, accessed February 27, 2018 .
  14. ^ Minutes of the decision of the 29th plenary session. (PDF; 138 kB) In: Parliamentary Documentation. Berlin House of Representatives, June 28, 2018, accessed on August 7, 2018 .
  15. ↑ Ulrich Zawatka-Gerlach: Red-Red-Green concludes the mobile Berlin. In: Tagesspiegel. June 28, 2018. Retrieved June 29, 2018 .
  16. ↑ Projects - Changing Cities eV Accessed October 29, 2017 .
  17. ↑ Urbanist Magazine: Network Bicycle-Friendly Neukölln. Retrieved December 24, 2017 .
  18. ↑ Nationwide Projects - Changing Cities eV Accessed on April 21, 2018 (German).
  19. ↑ Aachen saddles up - bike decision for a liveable city. Accessed April 16, 2019 (German).
  20. ↑ Augsburg cycling decision. Retrieved on May 1, 2020 (German).
  21. ↑ The Bamberg cycling decision lends a hand - for a safe cooperation! Accessed April 21, 2018 (German).
  22. ↑ Radentscheid Bayreuth. Accessed January 5, 2020 (German).
  23. ↑ Radentscheid Bonn. Accessed December 2, 2019 (German).
  24. ↑ Radentscheid Bielefeld - Relaxed and safe cycling for ages 8-88! Retrieved August 7, 2018 .
  25. ↑ Bicycle city Braunschweig - cycling should be for everyone, from 8 to 80+. Accessed January 5, 2020 (German).
  26. ↑ Place there! Bremen - More space for bicycle and pedestrian traffic. Retrieved on February 17, 2019 (German).
  27. ↑ Radentscheid Detmold - We want safe and relaxed cycling in Detmold from 8 to 88 years of age. Retrieved on May 1, 2020 (German).
  28. ↑ Home. Retrieved October 9, 2019 .
  29. ↑ Radentscheid Erlangen - Erlangen, step on the pedals! Accessed December 5, 2019 (German).
  30. ↑ RadEntscheid Essen. Retrieved December 2, 2019 .
  31. ↑ Foot and bike decision Freiburg. Accessed January 5, 2020 (German).
  32. ↑ Radentscheid Freising. Retrieved on May 1, 2020 (German).
  33. ↑ Radentscheid Hamburg - so that Hamburg finally turns! Accessed April 21, 2018 (German).
  34. ↑ More bicycles in Neu-Ulm: Initiative wants to collect 2,600 signatures for a cycling decision. Retrieved February 22, 2020 .
  35. ↑ Radentscheid Marl - Independent Initiative and safe cycling in Marl. Retrieved May 2, 2020 .
  36. ↑ 25 percent bicycle traffic by 2025 - Volksinitiative Aufbruch Fahrrad NRW. Retrieved July 18, 2018 .
  37. ↑ Radentscheid Nuremberg 2020. Accessed on October 9, 2019 .
  38. ↑ Radentscheid Offenbach. Retrieved on May 1, 2020 (German).
  39. ↑ The new association “Lebenswerte Schussental” is committed to sustainability, mobility and education. Retrieved November 11, 2019 .
  40. ↑ Radentscheid Tübingen. Retrieved October 10, 2019 (German).
  41. ↑ The new association “Lebenswerte Schussental” is committed to sustainability, mobility and education. Retrieved November 11, 2019 .
  42. ^ Place for Vienna. Retrieved June 2, 2020 .
  43. ↑ Radentscheid Darmstadt. Accessed April 21, 2018 (German).
  44. ↑ Radentscheid Frankfurt - Welcome. Retrieved April 21, 2018 .
  45. ↑ Radentscheid Kassel. Accessed April 21, 2018 (German).
  46. ↑ Radentscheid Munich. Accessed December 24, 2018 (German).
  47. ↑ Munich is getting better bike paths. sueddeutsche.de, July 24, 2019, accessed on July 24, 2019 .
  48. ↑ Radentscheid Regensburg. Retrieved on May 13, 2019 (German).
  49. ↑ Radentscheid Rosenheim -… open to the public petition. Accessed October 9, 2019 (German).
  50. ↑ Radentscheid Rostock. Accessed November 12, 2018 (German).
  51. ↑ Radentscheid Würzburg. Retrieved October 27, 2019 (German).
  52. ↑ Radentscheid Stuttgart - Rolling, simply safe! Retrieved June 11, 2018 .