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Sunday question: What do you say about Berlin abolishing the 30 km/h speed limit because the air has improved thanks to the 30 km/h speed limit? (www.rbb24.de)

submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by lgsp@feddit.it to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world

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EDIT: changed article link and title to comply with rules (that I didn't read 😛). The article that is linked now, links to the previous one (this one https://www.rbb24.de/politik/beitrag/2025/06/senatsverwaltung-verkehr-berlin-tempo-30.htm), and the title is the google translated of the new article, as close as original German as I can

The absurdity of the proposal is already in the title, and shows how motonormativity is spread all over the world.

Berlin has a very good public transit system, and a few 30 km/h zones cannot be that bad.

I would love to hear opinions from someone who lives there!

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[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I was in Berlin some years ago (2018?) and traffic is what will make me never ever put my foot there again.

Eating on the terrace of a cozy restaurant in the middle of the city? A fucking mega truck hauling 40 tons of wood thundering by at 70km/h raising so much dust from the street you get it in your food. Mmmm 🙋🏼‍♀️.

It's everywhere even in their mega park you hear traffic traffic traffic, I know Germans love their cars and so, but man, keep it away from the city centre?

[–] needanke@feddit.org 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

May I ask what area you were in? Because there are many restaurants that are not near streets a lorry would usually take (esp. at those speeds).

And I don't really hear (or see) the traffic in most parks I vistit.

[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

I don't remember perfectly, but between berlin mittel (got that from google maps, city-centre just north of the Sprée) and a bit to the north I think, still inside the city centre.

Tiergarten has a fucking motorway cutting it in half BTW 😅

Come to Paris for a change, there it's the people who will annoy you, not the cars 😁