Red Flag: Karl-Marx-Straße Is Done—and Still a Huge Traffic Jam
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Red Flag: Karl-Marx-Straße is done—and still a huge traffic jam
After 15 years of construction work, Karl-Marx-Straße in Neukölln is finally open again. Is this a good time for a joke about Berlin’s notoriously incompetent government? No, since this is a political decision: infrastructure is falling apart because the German ruling class wants to spend trillions on weapons. I go down KMS several times per day. Even as a proud car hater, I assumed the chronic traffic jams would clear up. But absolutely nothing…
Traffic planning: (dpa) The next extension of the A100 leads through built-up districts in Berlin. Despite years of protests, the planning should continue – also according to the Federal Government.
Berlin's Governing Mayor Kai Wegner considers the continued construction of the A100 to be essential. "This is a federal political issue. There's nothing about it in the coalition agreement in Berlin," he explained at the "Kai Wegner on Site" discussion series in Neukölln. "But I'll also tell you, if we didn't do it, it wouldn't make any sense at all." The 16th construction phase ends halfway through. "Even if I were against it, the federal gove…
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