Good evening,

Marie Lisa Kehler

Deputy head of the regional section of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.

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recently experienced what no driver likes to go through. There was no more air in the tire. Such a breakdown always happens when you least need it. It was well after midnight in the middle of the Frankfurt train station district. Congratulation. A car like this only has four tires. Taking care of them shouldn't be that difficult. The heavy transport that crawled through Frankfurt on Wednesday evening runs on 160 tires. If one is flat, changing the tire is not as easy as with a Passat. And the ADAC will not have a jack for a vehicle of this size on board either.

The vehicle is 43.5 meters long and moves in slow motion along the Hanauer Landstrasse on Wednesday evening. It has 405 tons on board, distributed over 20 axles. A huge transformer intended for the substation at Berger Warte is clamped between two tractors, each with 800 hp. The transporter needs four and a half hours for the few kilometers - and is therefore faster than expected. This mission marks only the beginning. Three more of this type – but with different destinations in the city – are to follow. In three years, when the transformers still to be delivered are in operation, they should convert as much electricity as the Biblis nuclear power plant once generated.Our author Mathias Trautsch spent the night together with photographer Ilkay Karakurt and accompanied the transporter on its snail's pace journey through the city.

Meanwhile, one of the region's most ambitious transport projects is getting closer to realization - and could get football fans there faster. When the project is completed in a few years, football games in the sold-out stadium should be possible again. Not far from the “Stadion” train station, construction of the Regionaltangente West is to begin this year. This should lead from the Taunus in the north via Frankfurt Airport to the Offenbach district in the south. In six years, Stadtbahn trains are to run from Bad Homburg via Oberursel, Eschborn and Frankfurt-Höchst to the airport and from there to Neu-Isenburg and Dreieich. The ground-breaking ceremony for the project could take place in the first quarter of the new year, as Manfred Köhler, editor-in-chief of the Rhein-Main-Zeitung, writes.For the almost 50-kilometer route, around half of the existing railway lines will be used and new rails will be laid. The new connection will not lead to the Frankfurt main station, but only touch Frankfurt. The first light rail vehicles could run on the route in 2028, putting individual sections into operation earlier is an additional option.

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