Bremen on the podium: Third place in the bicycle climate test 2025!

Bremen on the podium: Third place in the bicycle climate test 2025!

Bremen, Deutschland - The city of Bremen cut off properly at this year's “bicycle climate test” of the ADFC and took third place behind Frankfurt am Main and Hanover. But what does that say about cycling here? With an evaluation of 3.54 on the school grading scale, it turns out that there is both praise and improvement. Only Frankfurt was able to achieve a better note with 3.52 with 3.52. Over 200,000 cyclists took part in the digital survey, which was carried out from September to November 2024 and whose results were published in spring 2025. Buten un within reports that the test is an important tool to assess the satisfaction of cyclists in Germany.

Of course, not all aspects are rosy. Bremen has to face sharp criticism, especially when it comes to parking false on bike paths. Here the city was punished with a smooth grade 5. The high number of bicycle thefts are also worried: only more bicycles have been stolen in Berlin and Leipzig. The clarification rate is alarming and the expansion of the bicycle premium routes slowly runs away. These are points that urgently need to improve if Bremen wants to keep relevance as a bicycle city.

strengthening cycling

Not only politics and planning are required. The behavior of the cyclists themselves also plays a crucial role. "Cyclists should appear confidently and act defensively," warns the ADFC. A forward -looking driving style, compliance with traffic rules and the announcement of turning processes by hand signals are essential for the safety of all road users. ADFC emphasizes that the handling of large vehicles in particular requires special attention, since they cannot see cyclists in certain angles. It is also due to every single one to improve the situation.

A look at Bremerhaven

Bremerhaven, the smaller sister, has also not beaten badly compared to the past few years. It has improved from the rear ranks into the lower midfield of the cities with an order of magnitude. This shows that there are also progress in smaller cities when it comes to cycling.

Overall, it should be noted that Bremen as a bicycle city shows good approaches in the current round of the “bicycle climate test”, but also has enough challenges. The high number of participants in the survey shows the interest of the population in the topic and is a clear sign that there is still a lot of potential here - so there is definitely still something for the city of Bremen.