Munich has some issues dealing with too many cars and illegal parking on the sidewalk is common.
The SPD mayor has the solution: change the law so that this rude habit becomes legal.
And what about pedestrians, people with wheelchair, strollers? I guess they’ll have to adapt.
Fuck cars!
First of all there’s probably no space for sidewalks this wide on both sides plus a street unless you want to demolish a lot of houses. And second do you really think it wouldn’t be constantly used as parking and therefore never be usable as a sidewalk?
Never implied to demo homes or change setbacks, the idea would be to narrow the street to one actual car width as opposed to 2 or three car widths, extending the sidewalk width into the street.
This has a added benefit as if the street needs repaving you only need to spend money on repaving of one car lane width, as opposed to 2 or 3 car widths on a single lane street.
And now what happens is if a car is not parked that space becomes usable to a pedestrian to cross at or walk on.
The article is about cars parking on the sidewalk because the streets are already narrow. These are usually two way streets with effectively a single lane for both directions.