EDIT: changed article link and title to comply with rules (that I didn’t read 😛). The article that is linked now, links to the previous one (this one https://www.rbb24.de/politik/beitrag/2025/06/senatsverwaltung-verkehr-berlin-tempo-30.htm), and the title is the google translated of the new article, as close as original German as I can
The absurdity of the proposal is already in the title, and shows how motonormativity is spread all over the world.
Berlin has a very good public transit system, and a few 30 km/h zones cannot be that bad.
I would love to hear opinions from someone who lives there!
crossposted from: https://mastodon.uno/users/rivoluzioneurbanamobilita/statuses/114732266280428499
This is like when a person goes on a diet, loses weight, then stops the diet.
More like stopping an antibiotic course mid-way.
Or stopping your blood pressure medicine because you don’t have high blood pressure anymore.
Okay, so you’re overweight.
To lose weight, you must consume fewer calories than you burn. You do this for awhile. Your weight decreases.
Your weight has decreased to your target weight.
If you continue to consume fewer calories than you burn, you will continue to lose weight, becoming underweight.
To maintain your target weight, you must consume as many calories that you burn.
Your weight loss diet will be more restrictive than a weight maintenance diet.
I AM TOO A HUMAN BEING. JUST CHANGE THE EATING CYCLE PARAMETERS UNTIL TARGET WEIGHT ACQUIRED.
You’re supposed to stop the diet when you reached your target weight. So not like that at all.
Only if you want to get even fatter.
Find a diet that works for life, not a “lose 5 kilos in 3 weeks” fad diet if you want to have a healthy weight.
If you’re on a diet that will make you lose weight you can’t stay on that diet when you want to keep your weight. Doesn’t mean you have to go back to the diet that made you fat. This really is just very basic common sense.
Reality unfortunately rarely follows “basic common sence”. And all the research shows that for most people in most cases restrictive diets only give temporary results.
Well get a diet that makes you stay on your target weight. Those fad diets will just not work, as you just regain the weight when you stop.
Diet also doesn’t mean weight-losing. You can have a cheese-less diet (god forbid) for example.