Why car drivers (almost always men) make it their mission to look as menacing as possible just to reach a red light a full seven seconds earlier will forever be beyond me.
What's happening, top to bottom, is yet another round of promoting the car as a cure-all, as the glue holding our society together. “Everyone into the cars!” — as if it were a wake-up call for the dozy, indifferent fellow citizens practically falling off their bikes from sheer environmental awareness. More cars, sure, let's clog everything completely until nothing moves at all anymore.
About 2,800 deaths and 366,000 injuries in 2023. Of the dead, roughly a third weren't even in a car. Notice anything? No.
Politics turned schizophrenia — in plain German, a total loss of touch with reality — is the only way to describe these ultra-reactionary moves. Completely ignorant of the facts established at the very universities whose degrees they hold, degrees which are precisely what let them sit where they sit, ignoring those same facts.
Berlin bike courier “El Niño #02” belongs to CROW Courier, the delivery service that replaces cars with environmentally friendly cargo bikes.