413 - Pop-Up Bike Lanes to Fight COVID-19

Share:

Listens: 0

English News Weekly

Miscellaneous


This week’s ENW podcast reports on an innovative idea from Berlin in Germany that hopes both get people healthy and fight the restrictions of COVID-19. The bohemian district of Kreuzberg in Berlin has introduced ‘pop-up’ bike lanes. Why? Well the aim is to allow people to commute to work or the shops without coming within 1.5 metres of each other. Has it worked? Have any other cities copied the scheme? ENGLISH NEWS WEEKLY will try and explain all! (PDF) Image credit (screenshot): Wikipedia. Download MP3