Park ticket machines on sidewalks? Berlin traffic provides protests!

Parkscheinautomaten in Tempelhof-Schöneberg sorgen für Diskussionen. Bei der Platzierung spielt das Berliner Mobilitätsgesetz eine zentrale Rolle.
Park ticket machines in Tempelhof-Schöneberg provide discussions. The Berlin Mobility Act plays a central role in the placement. (Symbolbild/DNAT)

Park ticket machines on sidewalks? Berlin traffic provides protests!

Innsbrucker Straße 5-55, 10829 Berlin, Deutschland - In Berlin, the placement of parking ticket machines on parking space causes discussions. While some machines are on the sidewalks, the Berlin city councilor Ellenbeck states that this arrangement corresponds to the requirements of the Mobility Act, which grants priority and cyclists priority. She emphasizes that the space on Innsbrucker Straße is limited and the distribution of the surfaces is a fact: only 25 percent of the 32 meter wide road are reserved for sidewalks, which increases the problem of walking. She demands that sidewalks primarily be kept for the weakest road users, such as children and seniors. Therefore, there is a compromise to set up the machines in parking spaces and not on sidewalks, which is a practical solution, according to the traffic planner Gerd-Axel Ahrens from the Technical University of Dresden, such as MDR reported .

Ulrich Siegmund as the mouthpiece of drivers

The AfD politician Ulrich Siegmund fueled the debate with a Tikok video in which he criticizes and causes excitement to comment from the CDU Mayor Kai Wegner. His approach aims to ensure that the parking machines should stay on the sidewalks, which ensures a large reach on the platform. With over 464,000 followers and millions of likes, Siegmund has become an influential politician on social media. In an interview, he said that the traditional media would ignore his content, which motivates him to use alternative communication channels to reach the population. He sees an effective tool in social media to make complex political issues understandable and spreads government-critical content, such as "https://www.freilich-magazin.com/politik/wir-muessen-als-partei-moeglichst-Meutie-plattformen-Nutzen"> of course reported .

Siegmund's strategy of transparently presenting the political events on platforms such as Tikok, has an effect in his followers because it stimulates political discussions to participate. His goal is to make a general public to question one -sided reporting and to receive more information about the actual political processes. His successes on social media illustrate the growing influence of such channels for political opinion formation, especially under a younger target group.

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