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parking zones
Today's walk led me to start thinking about parking zones in Heilbronn over an affogato al caffè in Sülmerstrasse. I've noticed for a long time that most of the parking spaces in my neighborhood are occupied by commuters or third-party vehicles belonging to residents from the new neighborhood (Südbahnhof). It is annoying that the fine notices are obviously distributed arbitrarily.
But I was then inspired by the residents of Berliner Platz and Sülmerstraße, who now not only use the pedestrian zone as a private street, but also as a convenient parking space right in front of their own front door. In addition, and this is clear to everyone thanks to the new display boards in the parking guidance system, we have far too many (a total of 7) public parking spaces in the Heilbronn multi-storey car parks — here you could definitely make attractive offers to the residents and also carry out real and serious checks; a la carrot and stick.
In addition, we still have parking zones in Heilbronn! The city center alone is divided into 37 “resident parking zones”; Further parking zones are located in the residential area at Gesundbrunnen and in Hans-Baldung-Straße / Großgartacher Straße. Downtown parking zones are divided into six areas:
Area 1 – North Downtown (Parking Zones 1 – 4)
Area 2 - South Downtown (Parking Zones 5 - 7, 34 - 37)
Area 3 - Bahnhofsviertel (parking zones 8, 9, 17, 31 and 32)
Area 4 – Wollhausstrasse to Oststrasse and Moltkestrasse to Südstrasse (parking zones 10 – 15)
Area 5 – around Scheuffelenstraße (parking zones 18 – 20)
Area 6 – north of Weinsberger Straße (parking zone 21 – 30)
As already written, we really have signs for everything in Heilbronn — in abundance and often completely superfluous — but do we already have resident parking zone signs?
Development
This morning, surprisingly and very urgently, I had to move from one corner of Heilbronn to the other. Taking the car wasn't a very good idea. The urgency had already settled when I reached one of the few remaining traffic axes. The whole thing was exacerbated by the fact that obviously completely frustrated long-term commuters no longer even paid attention to red traffic lights and thus shut down entire roundabouts for minutes.
On the way back, thanks to my good knowledge of the area, I used secret paths, whereby I was able to establish that at least another 100 other Heilbronners know them even better than I do. My spontaneous back-and-forth action — I was no longer pressed for time — led to a different kind of city tour, during which I found out again that it really isn’t a good idea to also disconnect the only remaining Heilbronn train station from the road network.
At least in terms of traffic, Heilbronn has been reduced to a tranquil small town in recent years. Which would not be objectionable at all if the same decision-makers were not at the same time and increasingly propagating the myth of Heilbronn as a metropolis and cosmopolitan city and thus making false promises to many people in Heilbronn - but even worse wasting taxpayers' money through large-scale projects that are unsuitable for a tranquil Heilbronn.
That's why the municipal council should now get down to business and not just quietly and secretly dismantle the infrastructure (including the train station and port) or not develop it further (including the Friedrich-Ebert-Trasse and Saarlandstrasse). It would be better to ask them Dieter schwarz right away to replace the planned university expansion with the construction of a wine museum with an adjacent permanent wine village.
This would also have the great advantage that we would not have to constantly overwhelm our city administration with absolutely necessary traffic and emergency plans; the existing and exemplary festival calendar would then be completely sufficient.
dancing and more
Yesterday was like from Detlef Stern promised, a very instructive day for me. And he was right, I enjoyed it, too — one of the prerequisites for being able to step out from behind the stove at all, especially when things are generally getting a bit more uncomfortable again.
A few meetings later, my better half made sure that I had a dance floor at the end of the day and so I was able to end the evening in a very lively way.
As director for this wine museum I propose Killian Krauth before. The specialists of our monopoly newspaper for belief and drinking.
The voice of Heilbronn put it a little more skilfully: "about historical and ecclesiastical topics as well as about winegrowing in the region and far beyond." 😉
Unfortunately, pedestrians are not better served when it comes to red traffic lights.
As far as I know, pedestrians have not yet paralyzed a crossroads or even a roundabout for several minutes in the middle of rush hour traffic. Not that this is now understood as a kind of request on my part.
How nice it would be if, given the long red phases, one could e.g. B. at the Europaplatz in the contemplation of beautiful flags or even artistic installations.
Yes that would be nice! Unfortunately only the advertising media of the Dieter Schwarz Foundation hang there. Since we European federalists and also local councilors with an affinity for Europe have already repeatedly called for a Flags on Europaplatz failed, we have to assume that either the majority of people in Heilbronn are against Europe and its values, or at least those people in Heilbronn who are definitely in charge here. But what is really pathetic is that everyone can tap the corresponding transfer payments from Europe without any problem.