The party De Gronne is in power in the city council of Kiel. Tomorrow, the city council will vote on whether motorists should be prohibited from parking forwards in their own lanes.
De Gronne has launched a proposal in Kiel, where the party wants to introduce bans on several types of behaviour, including forward parking at properties and a number of other restrictions.
The initiative includes bans on activities such as horse riding in forest areas, fireworks, private pools in allotment gardens and detached houses in the city. Now the proposal has been extended to also include how cars must park at private properties, with a particular focus on avoiding backing into and out of junctions.
The head of the mobility department in Kiel, Alke Voß from De Gronne, wants to change traffic habits by requiring drivers to always move forward both when arriving at and leaving a property. Even if it had to be their own.
This is written by Bild .
According to Voß, the rule must strengthen road safety in accordance with the "Vision Zero" objective, which is about eliminating serious accidents and traffic-related deaths in the long term.
Voß believes that accidents often happen when drivers reverse, and therefore wants to minimize this risk by avoiding reversing altogether.
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The proposal involves concrete changes in future building permits. This means that new property access roads must be designed to allow corrals to turn around within the property.
If existing properties are renovated or rebuilt, it may become a requirement to adapt the entrance to the new rules. However, for smaller garages and older facilities with up to four parking spaces, there may be an exception so that they can retain their current structure.
However, the statistics behind the proposal show that reversing only makes up a small part of the total traffic accidents. According to the platform "Statista", 15.3 percent of all accidents with personal injuries last year were due to incorrect reversing, turning or similar manoeuvres.
In Kiel, according to a traffic safety report cited by Bild, there are 71 accidents related to reversing or reversing out of 1,085 traffic accidents, which corresponds to approximately 6.5 percent of all traffic accidents in the German city.
Skeptics point out that the ban on reversing may not have much effect on accident statistics. De Gronne's initiative in Kiel therefore faces the challenge of convincing the public that this new regulation is necessary and that the ban will significantly improve safety overall.
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