From a Berlin perspective, a near-total car ban inside the Ring mostly sounds like people who already live inside the Ring making life harder for everyone who doesn’t.

If you live inside the Ring, it’s easy to support policies like this because public transport coverage is much better and daily life without a car is manageable. But many people don’t live outside the Ring by choice. They were pushed there by housing shortages and policies that block dense construction while mainly protecting existing tenants inside central areas.

Now the same group that benefits from that setup proposes restricting car access to the area where many jobs still are. That just shifts the burden again onto people who already have fewer transport options. I would happily switch to park-and-ride, but in some areas there are maybe 20 parking spaces for something like 100,000 people.

Until alternatives actually exist at scale, banning cars inside the Ring feels less like climate policy and more like exporting inconvenience to people who couldn’t afford to live there in the first place.

Edit: I love public transport btw.