Unpopular opinion: Germany - while still far too car-centric - is a long way from being the most car-centric country in the EU
I’d argue France, Ireland, Poland, Greece, Italy, Latvia are worse
Germany is at least trying with public transport outside cities. Cycling is viable and improving a bit. #DeutschlandTicket is a good thing. It’s not all bad news
@jon
It's true. It could be much, much worse and from personal experience I would add the UK (at least Birmingham and Southampton) to that list.
Yet, imho there seems to be an inertia against applying even the most lax existing rules and sanctions against cars and there's a tendency to point at the US, saying look how much better we are, and the resulting complacency smothers every bit of ambition to improve.
Plus: don't be fooled by your own pov. I guess you spend most of your time in larger cities, including Berlin, which indeed offer some infrastructure. Go "auf's Land" and you'll find places that still don't even have the green-on-white guiding signs.
@cweickhmann I’ve been to LOADS of Land. Admittedly mostly in border regions. But I’ve seen a lot.
@jon
I don't disagree with your overall analysis. What I was trying to say is: the standard deviation is huge.
@cweickhmann Sure. But the worst German places are better than the worst places in a bunch of other EU countries.
