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Research really doesn't matter if policies are increasingly determined by culture wars. While major capitals are catching up to Denmark and the Netherlands, Kai Wegner in Berlin is busy cancelling bike and pedestrian infrastructure plans while drummning up antagonism between drivers and cyclists.

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On the other hand, in Berlin you also get entire blocks threatened with being forced to move out because the "temporary" covid-era bike path which never went away causes problems for the fire department in case of an emergency evacuation.

https://www.berliner-zeitung.de/news/streit-um-radwege-in-de...

(Article in German)

Kantstraße is a bit of an extreme case because there was previously no bike lane at all and it’s an especially dangerous area for cyclists. I’m fairly certain the solution is not to reverse all investment in bike infrastructure, it’s just a knee jerk reaction to win the vote of a certain demographic.

Yeah, current cities are not built to maintain all possible modes of transportation. And so you had a short interruption of a city favouring bikes and causing all kind of chaos, while everyone else had to suck it up. And so the pendulum swings, and someone else is trying to work out the city transportation problem. Personally, i wanted a privileged skateboard lane, but no lobby for that.

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