Traffic turning in Rhine-Main: the separation as the best solution

so-Called Superblocks are a great idea. And if this works in a city the size of Barcelona, it should be in Offenbach and other municipalities in the Rhine-Main region, however, also possible to unravel the still prevailing confusion of the various means of transport. Because on a road is not necessarily enough space for everyone and everything: for sweeping sidewalks, voluminous Parking bays, the width and the separately guided bike trails, as well as Bustrassen, any street railroad tracks and several lanes, where commuters and customers come at any time relaxed in and out of the City. As the transport planner may also apply so much color and markings on the Asphalt. It would be much more reasonable, different and different rates of mobility partner to split wherever it is that the map has to offer, and to send on their own Paths through the City.

So seen, is the of the citizens ' initiative Radentscheid idea put forward a good, residential and commercial districts free of through traffic. As long as this does not mean that at the end of the whole of the city centre for motorists is inaccessible and impassable. The development in the Catalan capital has certainly made one thing clear: Many of the local residents, passers-by, merchants and restaurateurs will enjoy it after some initial Complaining, in the meantime, apparently, that her neighborhood is quiet and lively at the same time. Meanwhile, the regularly of cars, buses and delivery vehicles formed long, noisy sheet metal column needs to move to larger roads to each of a plurality of neighboring blocks formed "a unique Zone" around. To date, there is also in Barcelona, only a handful of them, but it should be more.