Feature photo: Cycle path on the banks of the Neckar
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Resolutions
Of the many good intentions that I have read in the last few days, I like the one by Monique Judge preferably. She would like the number of weblogs on the Internet to increase again and become more important again for joint communication. After reading her blog post in The Verge I immediately sat down and wrote my first blog post of the year.
And who knows, maybe there will be other fellow citizens this year who will turn this good intention into reality. I've taken precautions and my blogroll shouldn't reach technical limits anytime soon. And so I'm already excited to see what new weblogs I'll be browsing my blog roll can be taken over.
Euro
Croatia got the euro today, and we can all celebrate 30 years of the European single market today. Word has probably gotten around to most citizens by now that both the euro and the internal market are good things. And if you still don't want to admit it, you're welcome to move to the United Kingdom for a few months.
In short, the European Single Market consists of almost 500 million people living in the 27 EU Member States plus Norway, Iceland, Liechtenstein and Switzerland. The combined gross domestic product is more than 15 trillion euros annually. This makes this economic area the third largest after the USA and China.
The euro is certainly the main currency and will remain so in the future. In addition to the three official working languages, although only English and French are actually used, since fewer and fewer Germans speak this language correctly and understandably, there are another 21, i.e. a total of 24 official languages. I continue to assume that this language diversity is not an obstacle, but quite the opposite, a clear locational advantage - but only if you can speak at least one language without an accident.
Bike path
The first 50 meters or so of the bike path actually went quite well in the city. So you can now, if you have navigated the tram, vehicles of all kinds and pedestrians, as well as the barriers in Bahnhofstrasse, turn into Badstrasse on the banks of the Neckar and briefly enjoy a brand-new cycle path. I particularly like the fact that as a pedestrian you can now hope to be spared cyclists on the footpath that runs parallel to the cycle path.
It then leads cyclists back to their own cycle lane on the banks of the Neckar, which they still have to share with heavy goods traffic. Probably only the city administration will know why the Badstraße should be a cycle path, which they recently officially declared as a cycle path up to the roundabout at the Böckinger Viehweide. And so it is still to be feared that the cyclists will continue to hit and avoid the pedestrians on the sidewalk after the brand-new 50 meters of cycle path.
In any case, it would now only be logical if cyclists did not use Obere Neckarstraße. This would not have been possible yesterday either, as the entire Obere Neckarstraße was completely blocked with cars, all of which probably wanted to do their shopping quickly or had come by car to the banks of the Neckar for a walk. And so I had to change to the other side of the Neckar myself as a pedestrian in order to be able to continue my walk - which meant that I was able to marvel at the new 50 meter cycle path.
And after I had managed to cross the Bahnhofstrasse — you now have to go through an entertaining obstacle course there — I decided to remain on the wrong side of the Neckar and continued walking across the Experimenta-Platz, which, as I could see, has now been converted into a very nice private car park. Which I can understand, because the way to the parking garages right next to it is simply too far for many people in Heilbronn — and if you can afford it, you also have your own Experimenta parking lot. In addition, it is very chic in Heilbronn to use footpaths and, especially, the very expensively prepared pedestrian zones as "private streets and parking lots", because whoever does this simply shows everyone that they are something very special in Heilbronn - and of them We have a lot of fellow citizens.
email of the day
This email was received today from the Federalist Nikos Giannis sent to like-minded people.
I once was with somebody I liked very much - an older person, when I was considerably younger than I am now. That person said, “Spend at least fifteen minutes a day weaving dreams. And if you weave a hundred, at least two of them will have a life.” So continue with a dream and don't worry whether it can happen or not; weave it first. Many people have killed their dreams by figuring out whether they could do them or not before they dream them. So, if you're a first rate dreamer, dream it out - several of them - and then see what realities can come to make them happen, instead of saying, “Oh, my God. With this reality, what can I dream?”
Please replace “a first-rate dreamer” as put by Virginia satir (1916 – 1988), with “a federalist”.
Nikos Giannis, email dated 1.1.2023/XNUMX/XNUMX
I drive almost every day coming from the Neckarhalde to Lohtorstraße.
And I will by no means change the Neckar side at the Götzenturmbrücke, pass the Dieter Schwarz amusement Experimenta and come across Untere Neckarstraße at the indoor pool and drive back to Lohtorstraße.
The so-called cycling experts in the administration have not managed to set up a sensible alternative for years.
I can understand. But for pedestrians like me, who, if there are any, don't hear the bells on bicycles, the many cyclists in the pedestrian zone next to the other vehicles are a real problem. I wouldn't mind if cyclists drove slowly in pedestrian areas or even pushed their bikes. As it is, I get the impression that the law of the strongest rules in Heilbronn.
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