The Autoclub ADAC asked residents in 39 medium-sized cities as well as commuters and visitors how satisfied they are as car drivers, cyclists, pedestrians and public transport users. The clear winner is Germany’s bicycle capital Münster, followed by Oldenburg and Erfurt, as the ADAC announced on Friday. Wuppertal, Krefeld and Mönchengladbach landed in the last places.
According to the survey, the satisfaction of pedestrians depends primarily on pedestrian paths; they want safe crossing points such as zebra crossings and wide sidewalks, ideally with seating. Münster, Rostock and Freiburg satisfy their pedestrians best – in Ludwigshafen, Wuppertal and Krefeld, on the other hand, there is a lot of dissatisfaction. In every city, however, the following applies: there are significantly more happy than dissatisfied pedestrians, as the ADAC emphasized.
Cyclists value a dense network of paths that are as wide as possible without obstacles and potholes. Münster, Karlsruhe and Oldenburg score points here, while Lübeck, Krefeld and Mönchengladbach received poor ratings. Overall, there are more satisfied cyclists than dissatisfied cyclists – they mainly criticize the behavior of motorists.
Car drivers like to get to their destination as quickly as possible and don’t want to search for a place for their car there forever. Therefore, they mainly disturb traffic jams, poor construction site management, inadequate road infrastructure and too few parking spaces. Here, too, Münster is ahead, followed by Oldenburg and Erfurt. Lübeck, Karlsruhe and Potsdam landed in the last three places. In the Brandenburg capital, for example, only one in five respondents said they were with the “Target achievement” satisfied; in Münster, however, it was every third.
When it comes to local public transport, fares, the number of connections and reliability are important – the price-performance ratio is seen as the most critical here. Rostock, Erfurt and Freiburg were victorious in this area, with Saarbrücken, Mönchengladbach and Wuppertal at the bottom of the list.
The ADAC had around 12,000 interviews evaluated in the representative online survey – they were conducted from the beginning of October to the beginning of November. Further results are that for many people walking is still one of the most frequently used ways to reach a goal – in “Adequate distance” Naturally.
Private car journeys achieve almost the same usage rates: almost half of those surveyed use it on more than 20 days in three months. Due to the corona pandemic, public transport and Deutsche Bahn are currently being used significantly less than before the outbreak of the disease.
ADAC Traffic President Gerhard Hillebrand said that Münster’s victory shows that integrative traffic planning that takes all modes of transport into account and coordinated with one another is successful. “There can be a balanced cooperation between drivers, cyclists, pedestrians and public transport users”said Hillebrand. “Everyone should do their part by following the rules, not always insisting on their rights and, above all, forgiving the mistakes of others.”
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