Today in Rhein-Main: motorcyclists want to ride

Good evening,

Jacqueline Vogt

Department head of the Rhein-Main editorial team of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.

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Country and region give a lot of interesting news.

For example, it was announced on Monday that from March 7th, the Hessian schools would no longer be required to wear masks and that from Tuesday there would no longer be any contact restrictions for those who had been vaccinated and those who had recovered.

And: In Frankfurt, the largest municipality in Hesse, the treasurer presents a budget with a record deficit.

The taxpayers' association has criticized the fact that the city of Hanau wants to take over a toy store in order to keep the city center attractive.

And in the Hochtaunus district there is a biker alliance that wants to take action against the planned closure of the Feldberg access roads for motorcyclists.

The overview at the end of the day.

Protest against restrictions:

Ten motorcycle associations have joined forces to form the "Hochtaunus Action Alliance for All" to take joint action against the planned closure of the Feldberg access roads for motorcyclists.

The alliance ranges from the Biker Union to the Federal Association of Motorcyclists and the Motorsport Club Winkelmesser to the Association of Christian Motorcyclists.

They have submitted a joint statement on the draft of the Hochtaunuskreis ordinance, which is intended to impose the driving bans.

The background: After a traffic test in 2019, the Hochtaunuskreis announced in November 2021 that it wanted to block the access from Oberursel-Hohemark to the summit plateau of the Großer Feldberg for bikers, from April to October every second weekend.

One reason is particularly loud motorcycles, which is why the district also describes the temporary driving ban as “noise breaks” for residents.

Access to the summit from the Königstein side should remain guaranteed.

Hochtaunus correspondent Bernhard Biener reports.

Criticism of the inner city concept:

The city councilors in Hanau should stop the takeover of the toy shop Brachmann by the city.

This is what the Hesse taxpayers' association demands.

The organization sees the purchase of the property of the traditional business by the municipal company Bauprojekt GmbH and the planned operation by the municipal marketing company using tax money as inadmissible competition with private companies.

Hanau is acting against the desolation of the city center and thus in the interests of its citizens: This is how Mayor Claus Kaminsky (SPD) justifies the commitment to the shop takeover.

According to the taxpayers' association, these are "sentimental motives": It is understandable that municipalities want to revitalize their inner cities, which have been hit by the pandemic, and strengthen retail.

But becoming an entrepreneur with taxpayers' money and wanting to sell toys yourself: that's going too far.

Incidentally, there are also critics of the Hanau plans in the municipality itself. However, there are not many, reports Luise Glaser-Lotz.

The money is missing:

The Frankfurt City Treasurer Bastian Bergerhoff (Die Grünen) has not been in office for long;

a CDU politician managed the city's finances for years.

The most recent local election then shifted the political forces in such a way that the Greens were able to send a man from their ranks to this key department.

Bergerhoff will present its first budget to the city council on Thursday.

Key data became known on Monday.

They are sobering: the finance department assumes a deficit of 219.29 million euros.

Although there have also been deficits in recent years, they were significantly lower at just over 97 million euros (2021) and just under 87 million euros (2020).

The high deficit has consequences: the reserves melt from 275.41 million euros (2021) to just 56,

12 million euros in the current year.

How that is received in local politics: We will report.

And

it is also still unclear why a pedestrian was hit by a load path in Darmstadt on Monday and seriously injured +++ Since the flood disaster in 2021 in Rhineland-Palatinate and North Rhine-Westphalia, more and more Hessian municipalities have been asking the State Office for Nature Conservation, the Environment and Geology so-called flow path maps, which show which way the water takes in heavy rain +++ the hospitalization incidence in Hesse was 6.4 on Monday after 6.65 on Sunday and 6.71 a week earlier.

Warm greetings from the editorial team, stay healthy

Jacqueline Vogt

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for Tuesday

Very cloudy, in the afternoon there will be more rain with temperatures up to 10 degrees.

Continued rain during the night, slowly easing.

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Tuesday February 22nd

Peter Wilhelmus

, managing director of the seating furniture manufacturer Köhl, Rödermark (57);

(The Greens), office manager in the Hessian Ministry of Science, former parliamentary group leader in the Frankfurt city council (40).