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will one day ICE trains on their way from Frankfurt to Fulda and on to Hamburg, Berlin and Dresden no longer first cross the Main, then through Sachsenhausen, then cross the Main again and then head east, but take a direct route? Will there one day be a long-distance railway tunnel under the city center with four more tracks under the main station? The feasibility study for this project has been announced for Monday, and there should be a large train station: Deutsche Bahn board member Ronald Pofalla wants to be there, among others, Tarek Al-Wazir, Hessian transport minister, and Peter Feldmann, Frankfurt's mayor. So it is not very likely that the authors of the feasibility study came to the conclusion that such a tunnel was nonsense.Rather, it could be a big day for the railroad, even if it will be a long time before the tubes under the skyscrapers open.

Manfred Koehler

Deputy head of the regional section of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and editor-in-chief of the business magazine Metropol.

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    In Wiesbaden they don't even dream of great tunnel projects, the citizens there would be happy if at least simple motorway bridges did what they should do: stand and don't crumble. Unfortunately, it is well known that it is different, and that affects not only the residents of the state capital, but also the restaurateurs in the Rheingau. Because a considerable part of their clientele comes from Frankfurt and the Taunus and usually drives on the Autobahn 66 to the beautiful places on the Rhine. That won't work in the foreseeable future, you either have to struggle through Wiesbaden or circle Mainz in a wide arc. Oliver Bock, our correspondent for the Rheingau, asked around the winegrowers and innkeepers - they speak of a catastrophe for the business that was only just about to start up again after the lockdown.

    The visitors to the opening concert of the Rheingau Music Festival on Saturday in the Eberbach Monastery certainly all started very early, as they were most interested in not missing this date.

    Because this year the Federal President was also a guest.

    Frank-Walter Steinmeier said in his address that “in order to get back on its feet”, Germany needs a “new start in culture”.

    Who wants to contradict him?

    And in addition, the seven-day incidence in Hesse remains at 7.5 +++ the Frankfurt SPD chairman Mike Josef has been confirmed in office with 90.5 percent +++ the historian and contemporary witness Saul Friedländer has the new Ludwig-Landmann -Award received for courage and poise.

    I wish you a pleasant day

    Yours Manfred Köhler

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    Michael Frielinghaus

    , long-time managing director and partner of the planning office BLFP Frielinghaus Architects, Friedberg, former President of the Association of German Architects (70);

    Günter Retzmann

    (SPD), former chairman of the district council in the Rheingau-Taunus district (65);

    Christoph Ullrich

    (CDU), District President of the Gießen District (61);

    Andreas Geue

    , CEO of Deutsche Anlagen-Leasing GmbH & Co. KG, Mainz (53).