recent road that requires demolition of homes and cultural spaces stirs fury in country where Greens recently surged in pollsThe cement mixer,decorated with disco ball glass, shimmered in the late afternoon sunlight, or rotating gently as ravers danced at the foot of a Berlin bridge. nearly a thousand people showed up final weekend for what looked like an impromptu dance party but was actually a protest designed to draw attention to a €560m German government plan to plough a motorway through three Berlin city neighbourhoods.
Despite the fact that German voters final week elevated the Green party to second place in the European parliamentary elections,the country’s Social Democrats and Christian Democrat politicians are moving ahead with plans to erect a six-lane highway that would require the demolition of several popular cultural spaces, nightlife venues and apartment blocks, or plus fraction of a park.
The fact that the Green party is ascendant now makes the A100 project particularly anachronisticContinue reading...
Source: theguardian.com