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United Against A 100

From the Berlin press landscape largely ignored yesterday took over 2000 people on a skating and bike demo in part to the expansion of the motorway A 100.

this support were the expectations of the citizens' initiative City Süd (BISS), which we, both good and more than met: the number of registered participants was exceeded by a factor of seven.

With the 16th Phase between the motorway junction and Treptow Park are threatened hundreds of gardens and trees - not equal have more than, say, on the Landwehr canal, where two years ago, prevented more than 20,000 signatures for the worst.

The new section of highway also the start of a new ring road through East Berlin would be created. The destructive effect of the existing ring road, you can study today. Apart from the immediate devastation caused by the construction noise and dust pollution to rise dramatically in the near and charge those neighborhoods that already suffer from a shortage of green space. At the same time upon completion of the ring made by public transport on the S-Bahn Ring unnecessary competition.

The alleged lack of money for the sustainable rehabilitation of the Landwehr canal is in remarkable contrast to the nearly half a billion € uro to be spent on this unnecessary and harmful traffic project.

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scrapping for the ferry ride!

hundreds of thousands take advantage of the scrapping premium for their old car's replace it with new energy saving models, bold ring with electric car company in a new era of mobility. When the ferry ride on the Landwehr canal still prevails, however, the fossil fuel era.

Page 19 April 2007 at the pier next to the shipping company Riedel Kottbusser the bridge parts of the seawall plummeting is obvious that the Landwehr canal of the growing burden of the conventional ferry ride is no longer grown. The channel walls are not just old and in need of revision, they are for exposure to heavy diesel engines simply not suitable.

A simple repair of the walls, as it is now under discussion for almost two years in a mediation process can therefore not solve the problems. At the same time must also be rethought in the use of the channel and reversed. The heavy passenger vessels must be replaced by lighter, less harmful means of transport. At the same time makes possible the Burden on residents by the exhaust gases of the engines and reducing the Carbon footprint of the city to be improved. Passenger ships in catamaran design can in fact operate with solar energy.

Such modern ships can carry 100 people and more at speeds up to 15 km / h - thanks to modern high-performance gel even 10 hours without sunshine. Also in Berlin later this summer, a solar ferry going into service ( http://www.solarwaterworld.de/ ). An alliance of long-established ship owners whose vessels sometimes more than 50 years in operation, however, blocked until now decisive steps in a soot and CO ²-free future.

debt is also the policy that innovative technologies are not sufficiently encouraging, but even more bureaucratic proscriptive and not even able, the EU fine standards that apply to all motor vehicles in Berlin's center long, consistently enforce them for the diesel ships. Thus, all local residents and recreation seekers to make the canal more aggressive with incense particles that trigger proven cardiovascular disease and cancer.

Instead of finally launch an urban master plan for the canal, which meets the demands of sustainable urban development, clings to the Senate Department for Urban Development of new motorway plans ( http://www.stop-a100.de/ ) from time automotive growth mania. To this end the following comparison: The restoration of the Landwehr canal to 11.5 km in length should be about € 150 million cost, the short section of the motorway A100 to Treptow Neukölln other hand three times as much!

Let's make the politicians in the election campaign clear where our priorities are and what we expect of them. Join us on 19 April at the bicycle demonstration "A100 stop (clock start 15 S-Bahn station. Treptow Park). From 19 clock, we welcome you with the slogan "land canal for all!" Admiral on the bridge urban policy to a soirée.