Fighting Eagle
Combat cyclist (also Rüpelradler or Radrowdy ) is a catchphrase from German transport policy and the media that stands for a debate about illegal and allegedly aggressive behavior by cyclists .
origin
The catchphrase was first known through an anonymous poster campaign with the slogan “Kampf den Kampfradlern” in the summer of 2011 in the Berlin district of Prenzlauer Berg. There was a similar discussion in Austria , where politicians of the Vienna FPÖ want to "stop green bike hooligans" and, among other things, demanded license plates.
controversy
The background to this is the increase in bicycle traffic on German roads and the perception of - according to the then German Federal Transport Minister Peter Ramsauer in 2012 - "increasing brutality" associated with disregarding traffic regulations and a lack of awareness of wrongdoing. According to data from the Federal Statistical Office, motorists are involved in two thirds of accidents involving cyclists; In only a quarter of these accidents, the cyclist is primarily to blame.
In connection with the discussion about the so-called combat cyclists or Rüpel cyclists, increased police checks, higher penalties, training courses or mandatory labeling for cyclists were demanded, for example by the police union . The former Federal Prosecutor General at the Federal Court of Justice and later President of the Traffic Court, Kay Nehm, criticized the fact that "hardly any cyclist" would adhere to rules such as driving with lights or driving on the right.
The use of the catchphrase was viewed by some commentators as unfounded, generalized and polarizing.
The ADFC referred to the accident statistics, according to which careless turning and disregard of the right of way by motorists are the main cause of accidents between cyclists and motor vehicles. The disregard of red traffic lights by cyclists is less common than speeding violations by motorists.
Some cycling activists started to use the term “combat bike” as an affirmative name. "The prevailing transport policy leaves them no choice but to violate certain rules that would disadvantage or even endanger cyclists in road traffic."
Web links
- Martin Randelhoff: The systemic error of cycling - guest article on the “Kampf-Radler” debate . On: Urbanophil. Urban Culture Network, April 12, 2012.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kathrin Hollmer: Traffic education for combat cyclists on: Jetzt.de from April 10, 2012.
- ↑ http://www.tagesspiegel.de/berlin/debatte-um-aggressive-radfahrer-anti-fahrradfahrer-kampagne-stoesst-auf-kritik/4385920.html
- ^ "Rad-Rambos": FPÖ Vienna dares a new push for bicycle license plates . The standard of October 2, 2012.
- ↑ Jonas Jansen: The fabulous victory ride of the bicycle . In: FAZ of September 29, 2012.
- ↑ Ramsauer laments "brutalizing the combat cyclists" . Der Spiegel from April 10, 2012
- ↑ Federal Statistical Office: Two-wheeler accidents in road traffic (2014)
- ↑ Training combat cyclists . Interview with the traffic psychologist Klaus-Peter Kalwitzki, In: Frankfurter Rundschau from September 29, 2012.
- ↑ http://www.handelsblatt.com/politik/deutschland/bussgelder-fuer-kampfradler-es- geht-nur-ueber-das-portemonnaie/ 6511444.html
- ^ Matthias Breitinger: A Populist Rüpelradler Attack . In: ZEIT ONLINE from January 24, 2013.
- ↑ ADFC : 34 million cyclists without any rule? ADFC rejects claims by Kay Nehm . Press release from January 24, 2013.
- ↑ a b Ramsauer complains about "Kampf-Radler". In: sueddeutsche.de. April 10, 2012, accessed August 26, 2018 .
- ↑ See the press overview compiled by the ADFC Cyclists' Association, Peter Ramsauer flashes his attack against combat cyclists ( memento from February 17, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ).
- ↑ See also the proposal as Unword of the Year, Rösler's candidacy for the Unword of the Year . In: Wirtschaftswoche from November 21, 2012.
- ↑ See press release of the ADFC Hamburg from July 30th, 2014: "The real causes of accidents in cycling"
- ↑ Florian Rötzer: Call of the combat cyclists . In: Telepolis of October 6, 2012.
- ^ Call of the combat cyclists from April 24, 2012.
- ↑ Every cyclist has to fight his way from time to time , Jens Siemering and Mehmed Dechert in an interview with Matthias Breitinger, Zeit -Online on December 14, 2012.
- ↑ https://www.taz.de/Radaktivist-ueber-Autofahrer-Lobby/!102996/