Overview
- Hamburg completed 50 kilometers of bike lanes in 2025, the lowest in six years and more than 20 percent below 2024’s 65 kilometers.
- The Senat missed its 2025 budget target of 75 kilometers of new or upgraded cycling infrastructure.
- An SPD-backed parking moratorium in place since spring 2025 pauses projects that remove on-street spaces until a Masterplan Parken and a Senat commission review, with the ADFC citing halted works in Bezirk Nord and Hoheluft.
- Transport senator Anjes Tjarks and the Verkehrsbehörde dispute that the moratorium is the main reason for the slowdown, pointing to routine project variability and noting that 66 percent of 2025 routes were physically separated.
- The city outlines 2026 plans including upgrades on Saarlandstraße, Steinstraße and Georg-Wilhelm-Straße, protected lanes at Eppendorfer Marktplatz and Manshardtstraße, a new wayfinding system, and pilot retrofits to add protection on existing lanes.