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Bicycle bridge with "underfloor heating" opened in Tübingen

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There is a great risk of slippery roads on bridges in winter. In Tübingen, cyclists can now look forward to the cold season more relaxed.

Tübingen – bicycles belong to Tübingen like the punting boats or the Hölderlin tower – next winter cyclists will even be able to ride over a heated bridge for the first time.

Mayor Boris Palmer (Greens) released the steel structure himself on Thursday by riding his own bike over it. The costs for the first of three heated bridges planned by 2025 are around 1.7 million euros, with the heating loops accounting for 22,000 euros.

According to the General German Bicycle Club ADFC, the heated bridge is a novelty. Neither the state nor the federal association is aware that such a heated bicycle bridge has ever been built before. “The ADFC finds heated bridges useful for cyclists. The smoothness cannot be completely removed with road salt. It also attacks the bridges, ”said an ADFC spokeswoman in Stuttgart. dpa

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