[HIGHLIGHTS] Despite the CSU's ridicule of cargo bikes: the project was a complete success in Bavaria - Söder buried it anyway

The CSU and Söder like to mock cargo bikes. In Bavaria it is clear that they are also a replacement for cars in rural areas.

The issue of cargo bikes was also politically charged in the last federal election campaign - and even became a kind of battleground between the Union and the Greens. Despite these obvious reservations about cargo bikes among the CDU and CSU, the CSU-led Bavarian Ministry of Transport started a model experiment in 2020. The concept worked. A reduction in car traffic “was definitely the case for us,” said Lechbruck Mayor Werner Moll. There is great enthusiasm in Lindau after the model project came to an end. In the city on Lake Constance, cyclists covered 13,500 kilometers on rented cargo bikes, 60 percent of which were as a Replacement for a car. But: There will no longer be a subsidy from the Free State in the future, the Bavarian Transport Ministry announced in response to a request from Merkur.