The plan approved in February is about to develop 13 new bike superhighways -narrowed down from an original list of 30.
They will be completely segregated, unbroken longer-distance routes that will allow Berliners to get in and out of the city center much faster and more safely—without ever having to mix with cars. These new links will have to be at least 5km long and 4m wide and offer no more than 30 seconds of stopping time at intersections and traffic lights per kilometer.
This infrastructure will be built on some disused railway tracks, underneath the city’s elevated subway and resizing some of the main avenues in the city.