Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Germany

Park, Ride and Wash in Fahrradfreundliche Muenster

By Brad Aaron | | 9 Comments
Here are tipster-submitted pics from the bike-and-ride Radstation in Muenster, Germany — where a train depot sits adjacent to a massive bike parking garage, featuring, among other amenities, a bike washing machine. Price per wash: 3.25 Euros (about $4.13 currently, thanks to the leveling exchange rate). We’ve reported before on Germany’s flourishing bike culture, and […]

Wiki Wednesday: Quartier Vauban, Freiburg, Germany

By Brad Aaron | | 2 Comments
This week’s StreetsWiki feature takes us to the Quartier Vauban in Freiburg, Germany. With an area of 84 acres, the Quartier Vauban is a neighborhood of 5,000 people, designed and built as a sustainable community between 1993 and 2006. Contributor Kyle Gradinger writes that the Vauban "represents the state of the art in environmental protection […]

New German Community Models Car-Free Living

By Aaron Naparstek | | 2 Comments
The Vauban Department of Transportation gets to work. Schritt Tempo: Walking Speed. Freiburg, Germany is a place you need to know about if you are interested in models for reducing automobile dependence. Here is a great story by Isabelle de Pommereau from Wednesday’s Christian Science Monitor: FREIBURG, GERMANY: It’s pickup time at the Vauban kindergarten here at the edge […]

Eyes on the Street: German Bike Parking

By Nick Grossman | | 14 Comments
Copenhagen is getting all the attention lately, but it’s not the only livable European city with great cycling facilities. Last week, I visited Munich for work, and found that the cycling culture there is strong, particularly as measured by the excellent bike parking facilities.  They seem to be in all the right places: Outside the subway: Instead […]