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Bonn City Air Quality and Transport Improvement Plans. March 2018 summary for activists.
Bonn City has a problem. No, not the Beethoven Hall catastrophe. No, not the debt problem. No, not the swimming pool plan. I’m talking about the other one, the one that is seriously impacting health and quality of life. Air pollution levels have risen above permitted norms. Public transport quality appears to be dropping. Traffic levels are too high. The ongoing discussion involves diesel cars, electric transport, free public transport, cycle infrastructure, parking and even ski-resort style cable-car lifts. It’s a complex mix of projects and difficult to follow. Thanks to a recent statement from the City of Bonn, however, there’s a concise summary of actions available. This bullet-point list…
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Digital Hub Bonn. Coworking space opens 20th Feb. What next?
Bonn Hub. Incubator. Startup center. Coworking space. Food lab? The last time I wrote about Bonn Hub, aka Digital Hub Bonn, it was July 2016 and just days after they had secured access to 3 million Euros of funding. The plan back then was bold and finally, 7 months later, Bonn Hub will have an opening party. Unfortunately the real-world Bonn Hub isn’t quite like the picture that was painted back then. To be fair, finding a location in Bonn must be incredibly difficult at the moment as Bonn enters into a multi-year program of re-development. All the space in front of the main station has been vacated for a…