A joint position paper of the Bicycle and logistics industry wants more safety on the roads. The courage for real reform is missing.

The "Ghost wheels" by the ADFC as memorials for fatal verünglückte cyclists photo: Soeren Stache/dpa

Finally put it down and have you set yourself at the table: the Bicycle club, and the truck Association. On the road there is no Against each other, hugging ADFC-chief Burkhard Stork, and the Board of the logistics Association BGL, Dirk Engelhardt, again and again. And you leave the stage. Just as their press conference was: staged. The two men stretch smiling the micro-and forth, while you praise the common position paper in the sky. Clear intersections, separate green phases, construction sites, safe journeys to the demands of the associations, is comfortable and non-political.

With your position paper agreed ADFC and the BGL to the lowest common denominator. Your ideas are good, for example, you have agreed to the installation of so-called turn-off assistant in Trucks, which turn accidents effectively prevented as can be. However, after six dead cyclists this year alone, it would need to be new, much bolder ideas. To have this courage, expect your members of the interest groups. The Truck drivers, the stay turn-by-turn accidents traumatized, and the cyclists, of which far too many by the wheels of a Truck seriously injured or killed. However, more radical measures have not made it into the paper.

For exposures to Truck-free inner cities and deliveries only via the load wheels of the truck has Lobbyist Engelhardt left with nothing. His arguments against it are only of formal nature: lack of staff and the low transport force of the load wheels. Ready to change the System, not the carriers. And the Cycling lobbyists do not dare to the conflict. Rather, the new Alliance remains friendly and thus ineffective. It is much easier to demand something that will find all the good and what is enough money in the Federal budget is provided.

This position paper is a bit of a Christmas celebration with the Ex-Partner, for the sake of the children. One is content with a superficial, harmless discussions. The works-possibly for years – but it changes not really something.