Good evening,

Manfred Koehler

Head of department of the Rhein-Main editorial team of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.

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the present is sometimes sad.

For example, how long has the expansion of the ring road north of Mainz been discussed, and what happened?

Nothing.

And that will remain the case for a long time to come, as colleague Markus Schug writes about the state of affairs regarding Autobahn 643: "No end of traffic jam in sight".

How much nicer is the near future!

The Rhein-Main-Verkehrsverbund, for example, announced on Monday that it would

use autonomously driving SUVs for scheduled services in Darmstadt and in the Offenbach district in the second half of 2023, initially with specialist personnel on board for safety reasons, and then without from 2024,

as Ralf Euler reports .

Well, one could think about whether the RMV isn't a bit encroaching, because it only has something to do with classic regular service to a limited extent, it's also expensive, but technically it's of course a revolution.

And where does it begin?

Well, in Darmstadt, the innovation city of the metropolitan area.

And the distant future will be even better!

Because then, again possibly in Darmstadt,

the generation of energy with the help of nuclear fusion could become a reality.

Well, mankind has been dreaming of this for a long time, but a start-up has been founded in Darmstadt that is seriously driving things forward, as colleague Daniel Schleidt writes.

As I said: Innovation City.

Always interesting what can be heard from Darmstadt.

And in addition

, the Fashion Week in Frankfurt has begun, not everyone believed the financial center capable of so much fashion

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warns the German Life Saving Society against swimming in rivers and lakes, there were also deaths at the weekend

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goes the speeches -Literary Prize to the Belarusian poet Volha Hapeyeva.

Have a peaceful evening,


your Manfred Köhler

You can also read current reports from the region in Skyline-Blick, our live news blog for the Rhine-Main region, and on the Rhein-Main-Zeitung website at www.faz.net/rmz

The

weather

for Tuesday

After sunshine, denser clouds and isolated showers will move through the region.

Most of the time it stays dry at a maximum of 27 degrees.

birthday

on

Tuesday

Alfred Schüller

, Emeritus Professor of Economics at the Philipps University of Marburg (85);

Lollo Grund

, Wiesbaden-based fashion designer (79);

Rüdiger von Rosen

, President of the Frankfurt Society for Trade, Industry and Science from 2013 to September 2021, Honorary Consul of the Republic of Latvia, bearer of the plaque of honor of the City of Frankfurt (79);

Frank Junker

, CEO of the Frankfurt housing association ABG (65);

Ulf Sölter

, Director of the Gutenberg Museum, Mainz (50).