Today in Rhein-Main: what can be done with 2.5 billion euros

Good evening, a lot could have been done

to make local public transport more attractive in the long term – new vehicles, new routes, denser timetables.

But you don't.

Instead, this amount is used to finance the nine-euro ticket, which undoubtedly enriched the summer of many Germans - according to studies, it was mainly used for leisure travel - but cannot have any lasting effect.

Nevertheless, it is also being discussed in Rhein-Main whether there should be any connection solution, as Bernhard Biener writes.

Hopefully it won't be that expensive again.

Manfred Koehler

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

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For example, 2.5 billion euros

would be a good contribution to making the country more accessible to people with disabilities.

One in ten people in Germany is classified as severely disabled, as Ewald Hetrodt reports, and charging stations for electric vehicles, ATMs and e-scooters that get in the way cause great difficulties for many.

"But concrete solutions are a long time coming in Hesse," criticizes the colleague.

Hopefully not that long.

With 2.5 billion

, you could start something completely different.

For example, advancing adaptation to climate change.

Always interesting to read what solutions private companies find.

The Offenbach civil engineering and road construction entrepreneur Lutz Weiler has developed a road asphalt that can store water.

This prevents the road surface from deforming in the heat.

The hotter it gets, the better when something like this gets ready for series production.

Hopefully soon.

And in addition

, before the third round of collective bargaining for the 20,000 ground workers, Lufthansa HR Director Michael Niggemann expressed the hope of reaching an agreement this week

the singer Mogli hits the nerve of the times, as our cultural editors write

hopes the head of Asia at Messe Frankfurt, Stephan Buurma, on upcoming events in China.

I wish you a pleasant evening

Yours, Manfred Koehler

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

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First a lot of sunshine, then clouds again and again, but dry.

In the afternoon maximum temperatures of 35 to 39 degrees.

birthday

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Bernd Fahrholz

, former CEO of Dresdner Bank, Honorary Senator of Goethe University Frankfurt (75);

(The Greens), outgoing first district councilor of the district of Groß-Gerau (72);

, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Else Kröner Fresenius Foundation, Bad Homburg (70);

, artist living in Eschborn (65);

, managing director of the media publisher VRM Wetzlar GmbH, chairman of the Association of Hessian Newspaper Publishers (62);

, from 2014 to December 2021 Managing Director of Gas-Union GmbH, Frankfurt (59);

, national chairwoman of the Marburger Bund doctors' union, senior physician for hospital hygiene at the St. Josefs Hospital Rheingau, Rüdesheim (57);

, head coach of football club 1. FSV Mainz 05 (43).