The traffic turnaround is no good for an ideological dispute. It has long been taking place in major cities. Sharing e-bikes and e-scooters relieves the burden on buses, streetcars, suburban trains and subway trains, and saves on the search for parking spaces for cars. E-cars in car sharing are used so intensively that it is almost impossible to book one at short notice. Bicycles are also being used more and more to get to work. The traffic chaos in many large cities leads to such evasion strategies, which are climate-friendly.
Problems have mostly commuters. Outside many major cities, there are too few park-and-ride (P+R) lots with attractive public transport connections to city centers. In addition, public transport connections are often overloaded and unreliable during rush hour. S-Bahns in the Cologne node and S-Bahn main line Munich are just examples.
In contrast, fast and efficient local trains have long been operating between Chinese and Japanese cities with over a million inhabitants and their surrounding areas. European metropolises and conurbations with historically grown metro networks and high-performance connections to the suburbs, such as Berlin, Brussels, Helsinki, London, Madrid, Moscow and Paris, also show the trend toward urbanization.
