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While the Mayor and the Heilbronn Voice already describe Heilbronn as an up-and-coming metropolis, we citizens still need to be allowed to ask a few questions, even if this is just complaining for the Heilbronn city officials and their court reporters.
Even if Heilbronn according to a completely antiquated assessment continues to be considered a big city, we citizens must recognize that we are largely disconnected from traffic flows on water, land and air. The railway will only be maintained as a tram and - if we are lucky - also ensure connections to real main stations such as Stuttgart, Mannheim and Würzburg. At least this way you can reach the air route.
The waterway to Heilbronn will be closed in the medium term and the Neckar will then only serve a few excursion steamers and sailboats. The federal highways, on the other hand, can no longer handle the expected volume of traffic due to a lack of alternatives.
In addition to all the dilapidated infrastructure that makes a big city impossible, what makes it even more difficult is that Heilbronn's population is viewed as poorly educated, not only throughout Germany, and despite diverse and completely uncoordinated efforts by the citizens, there is no improvement in sight.
Both will have very negative effects on trade and commerce in the medium to long term and will lead to more productive parts of the population migrating from Heilbronn and its surrounding area.
Recognizing this, we in Heilbronn should finally set ourselves realistic goals and Heilbronn should set ourselves more realistic goals to a magnificent medium-sized town — the pearl of the lowlands — would also like to expand it into a tourist paradise.
In any case, it is time for the local council and the city administration to finally develop viable plans and concepts on how we can continue to preserve Heilbronn as a city.
The following questions come to mind quite spontaneously:
- What should the city center look like in the future?
- Can Heilbronn still manage a pedestrian zone based on shops of its current size? What would be the alternatives?
- Can the existing investor in the Wollhauszentrum even raise the hundreds of millions of euros necessary for development? Wouldn't it make more sense for city administration employees to support other feasible projects until this is clarified and not continue to plan with cloud cuckoo lands?
- Can a densely populated Heilbronn city center still be supplied with infrastructure in the future?
