Rempartstraße – Students For Future Freiburg

Rempartstraße

Rempartstraße is located in Freiburg's old town, between many university buildings and the downtown cafeteria.
This makes it a central location for student life.
Motorized traffic endangers the safety of everyone here considerably; by cutting up the inner city campus dangerous situations between cars and pedestrians occur again and again, especially when long queues form in front of the cafeteria, as they often do.

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the one-way street

In early 2022, the city administration decided to make the part of the Rempartstraße next to the cafeteria a one-way street for cars. This "traffic experiment" was planned to last one year.

Even though many car drivers disregarded the new rules, partly because the city didn't really enforce them, a noticeable relief could be experienced by bikers and pedestrians.

However, according to the city, the one-way arrangement created a backlog of cars onto the Kaiser-Joseph-Straße. As a result, the one-way street was abolished at the end of August 2022.

Instead of addressing the traffic problem in a holistic manner and creating sustainable traffic concepts for the inner city, the administration decided to surrender to the motorised individual traffic, to avoid any inconvenience.

Car-free Rempartstraße!

Rededicate Parking Garages!

the demands

In addition to preventing accidents between pedestrians, bikes and cars, the progressing climate crisis is another, much more urgent, cause for a change in traffic infrastructure.

Car-free inner cities are necessary - especially in Freiburg, a city that likes to present itself as a role model "bike city".

We demand that Rempartstraße be closed completely and permanently to all vehicular traffic.

In the inner city of Freiburg, social housing is urgently needed - as well as safe parking spots for bikes and cargo bikes.

The already existing parking spots are over-crowded during peak hours of the university operation, which in turn affects pedestrian spaces.

We demand that the city convert the parking garage next to the Breisacher Tor to social housing. Further, the state-owned university parking garage be made a parking space for bikes and cargo bikes.

The petition

If you want to support a consequent traffic transformation as well as more space equity, sign our petition and share it with your all your friends!

https://www.change.org/p/rempartstraße-autofrei

Daniel Olbricht · Autofrei

The Actions

In protest for our demands, we have gotten a little creative.
Introducing: RAVE THE REMPART!

Because streets have the potential to be much more than pure asphalt deserts made for heavy metal vehicles.

Platz fürs Fahrrad - Space For Biking
Platz für Menschen - Space For People
Platz fürs Gehen - Space for Walking
KEIN PLATZ FÜR AUTOS - NO SPACE FOR CARS