Toward a Green and Efficient Transit Future
<p><strong>BERLIN</strong> — When Matthias Gibtner was growing up in East Berlin in the 1970s, light rail trains, buses and trams whisked him from school to home and everywhere in between. After the Berlin Wall fell and the two cities reunified in 1990, he was alarmed that the West Berlin transit system was planning to abolish the tram network that East Berliners like him had relied upon.</p>
<p>“I thought there should be an opposition to this attempt, and I wanted to work as a volunteer to make it happen,” Gibtner said.</p>
<p>Though he had no expertise in urban planning or public transportation, he had a life’s worth of first-hand experience on public transit. In 1995, Gibtner joined the <a href="https://www.igeb.org/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Berlin Passenger Association</a>, known as IGEB, which advocates for German public transit consumers. Today, he is the deputy chairman.</p>
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