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New data shows cars are big winners during pandemic
Research shows that cars are being driven more now than before corona. Peter Neumann, 8.4.2021 - 06:26 Uhr
Artikel anhören dpaCars as corona winners.
Berlin - Research shows that car traffic has barely fallen during the pandemic as people opt for individual transport over public options. A national research project by the Infas market research company and WZB Berlin Social Science thinktank showed that in some cases cars are used even more frequently. The car is the winner of the corona pandemic, Infas Robert Follmer said.
Experts at the Berlin traffic information centre, or VIZ, also released the results of an evaluation of three key Berlin streets: Leipziger Straße in Mitte, Bornholmer/Wisbyer Straße in Prenzlauer Berg and Frankfurter Allee in Friedrichshain. They compared figures from last month with the average weekday traffic load during the first week of March 2020. The result: traffic has decreased -