Overview
- Berlin’s mayor has called a meeting at the Rotes Rathaus this afternoon to map the future of Friedrichstraße.
- Transport senator Ute Bonde, retail representatives, and the Rettet die Friedrichstraße coalition are expected to join the talks.
- The agenda centers on measures to draw more visitors for strolling and shopping and to avert further store closures.
- A previous 500‑meter car restriction near Gendarmenmarkt was removed after a court ruled there was no legal basis once the 2021 traffic trial ended.
- After the CDU’s 2023 win reopened the street, a promised masterplan stalled, Manja Schreiner left the transport post, and closures continued, including Galeries Lafayette in summer 2024.