More and more people in Munich are using bicycles for their daily transportation. And yet, despite years of promises by the city to become Germany’s “Bicycle Capital”, our cycling infrastructure has only been slightly improved.

With the effect of the petition we began on March 28, 2019, the conditions for cycling in Munich should be massively improved: with the help of your signature, the bicycle will be given a fair share of our public space available for travel.

Legal Procedures for the Munich Bicycle Referendum and corresponding petitions

We need to collect around 33,000 Munich voter signatures in order to force a Referendum for citizens to vote on bicycle infrastructure. All adult Germans and other 18-year-old EU citizens can sign. (Details here: https://www.radentscheidmuenchen.de/background/faq-questions-and-answers/?lang=en#toggle-id-1)

If sufficient signatures are collected, a referendum will be held, unless the city council decides to simply implement the petition’s demands. For a valid referendum, ten percent of the voters must participate in the vote. That’s about 100,000 people in Munich.

If there is a majority in favor of the Munich Bicycle Referendum, the demands must be implemented by the city.

How does a petition cause a referendum?

The Munich Bicycle Referendum demands the following from our capital city