Tag: Speed limit
In flames: Paris takes 149 electric buses off the road
After two fires, the city temporarily takes the affected model off the road. Similar cases also in southern France and Germany. Are e-buses really safe and ready for use?
Berlin: First Tempo 30, then Noise Zone?
Senate considers extending a 30 km/h speed limit to more main roads. The aim is to curb noise pollution. Is a noise protection zone coming soon?
Speed limit and car-free Sundays
50,000 signatures were needed, 58,000 actually turned out: the federal government was presented with a petition calling for a speed limit, car-free Sundays and a ban on domestic flights.
Berlin: Vision Zero through Tempo-30
Transport Senator Jarasch wants to introduce more 30 km/h zones in Berlin. Her declared goal is to avoid traffic fatalities and injuries. One way to achieve this is to slow down cars. Noise and air pollution could also be reduced in this way.
30 km/h speed limit throughout Europe?
Throughout Europe, there are now large cities, but also small communities, that have introduced 30 km/h speed limits across the board. Spain is the pioneer, where 30 km/h was already introduced in Madrid in 2018, and it has been in force in all cities since 2021. In Germany, 70 municipalities now want to reduce the speed limit.
Berlin: Abolition of 30 km/h zones
Last year, the development of pollutant emissions at 30 km/h was measured on five stretches of road in Berlin. A decrease in pollution was measured on these heavily frequented streets, only on Potsdamer Strasse no decrease could be detected. Now the 30 km/h zones could be abolished, but the transport senator has a different plan.
Speed limit 30 throughout Germany?!
The Berlin Senate has now evaluated a model test in which five busy main roads in Berlin were designated as 30 km/h zones. The results of the test are now available: Speed limit 30 reduces pollutant emissions. The Belgian capital Brussels is also highly satisfied after one year of 30 km/h speed limits.
Too many signs in Berlin cause confusion
A traffic restriction only really makes sense if it is signposted. But what happens if there are signs but no traffic restrictions? In Berlin, diesel drivers have to deal with exactly this problem.
Low emission zones worldwide
It is not only in Europe that it has been recognised that restrictions on traffic are necessary to reduce pollutant emissions. All over the world, new rules and restrictions are being introduced to help reduce the share of deadly pollutant emissions and, above all, to better protect the population in cities.
Swiss Low Emission Zone explained
Switzerland also has to deal with air pollution. But it does not have to adhere to the EU's specifications. Instead, it has declared a much stricter limit value for particulate matter to be binding. It is not the European 40 µg/m³ that applies in Switzerland, but 30 µg/m³, which must be adhered to. Because this does not always work, there is an environmental zone in Geneva and the surrounding towns of Carouge, Cologny, Lancy and Vernier.