21.8.02023

Feature photo: S-Bahn in front of the main station | © Bettina Kümmerle

regret

For us citizens, it's just annoying when our municipal councils repeatedly shirk their responsibility simply by regretting it. First, they agree to everything and everyone, and they do so without even bothering to ask or even ask further what the decision-making is about - in doing so, they violate all the basic principles of representative democracy.

And when the child fell into the well, we can read in the voice of Heilbronn that they would have decided very differently today. And all is right with the world again for everyone involved.

However, we should all be aware that the moral and technical incompetence of representatives of the people is the greatest danger for any democracy. That's probably why more and more citizens are demanding direct democracy, because we don't need representatives to simply make decisions based on gut feeling or simply to be bought - we can all do it much cheaper ourselves.

long week

The recent walk across the main cemetery was a very pleasant thing. Contrary to all previous expectations, there is enough space for us there again. In addition to the well-known burial variants, turf burials and, if desired, even anonymous ones are now also possible. I think this is a viable alternative to the currently so popular cemeteries, especially since we all who go to cemeteries or cemeteries get older faster than we would like and even a slightly larger cemetery is always clearer than any forest — especially after a storm.

Before that, I went for a short walk in the city and saw a few people there on Kiliansplatz with posters saying “queer thinking instead of lateral thinking” or something like that. I was a bit amazed at the police presence and was later able to read on stimme.de that 350 people had marched through Heilbronn celebrating peacefully under the motto "Dance for Tolerance" - the usual Monday marchers really cause more stress. The "Mini-Loveparade" (Heilbronner Voice), which was probably only a block away, passed me completely unnoticed. But I was able to spend a very successful evening dancing with my better half at the Brenner dance school.

With the meseno bus I start today in a long week where there will be a lot to do. By the end of this week a few pegs should have been driven in. Meanwhile, Hillary — not Clinton — is rampaging across California, and a quick phone call confirmed that it's already raining heavily locally.

Detlef Stern will now let me know that that the long week actually means something else, but since it's my week, it may continue to be one. Any discussion about it will definitely be one of the more pleasant ones.

provincial train station

We in Heilbronn have been dismantling our main train station for years and have long since shut down the other city train stations. In addition, we are constantly creating further facts in this regard by reducing the obligatory bus station to village level, reducing traffic on the roads to and from the train station, reducing parking spaces, but for very expensive money we have not even created 120 parking spaces for bicycles. And the next rebuild will ensure things get a lot worse.

Our main station and its entire surroundings are already completely overwhelmed as soon as two small trains reach Heilbronn at the same time. Meanwhile, we Heilbronn dream, instigated by the mayor and our people's representatives, that soon the ICE and IC will run hourly in Heilbronn - we are probably all suffering from a complete loss of reality.

And so I'm a little pleased that at least the Heilbronner Voice (August 21.8.2023, 4: XNUMX) is consulting expertise from outside Heilbronn for once. Gerhard Schnaitmann certifies that our main station will always remain a provincial station.

But provincial railway stations also need a functioning infrastructural connection and, in particular, an attractive environment.

"Heilbronn is only half the size of the central cemetery in Szczecin but twice as dead."

Ancient joke with beard

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