Today in Rhein-Main: By bike and the E

Good evening,

I really like to cycle to work if at all possible, and if you can make an appointment in the city with an e-scooter, I'm happy about that too.

At the same time, it was great to be able to use the S-Bahn more often than usual with the 9-euro ticket.

It is a very real traffic world full of possibilities and without ideology.

Our Monday edition also deals extensively with such topics.

Carsten Knop

Editor.

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There is the bicycle demonstration

, with which signatures were brought to Wiesbaden via the A 66 in order to get a more ambitious traffic turnaround in the literal sense of the word.

A referendum is intended to ensure more cycle paths, more buses, more trains - the number of signatures collected is impressive.

But would you have had to close an important freeway for hours?

Is that sending the right signal?

"It's a dream, without cars," says a young woman in the report by Theresa Weiß.

Certainly that was true at that moment on the empty freeway in the sunshine.

But without the car and the associated industry, the hoped-for turnaround will not be financed.

That's what the accompanying comment is about.

That leaves the e-scooters.

Marie Lisa Kehler spoke to a doctor from the BG accident clinic about numerous injured drivers.

Because the way to the ground is short.

So short that there is hardly any time to unwind.

Instead, the arms are reflexively stretched out to arrest the fall.

Sometimes there is no time even for that.

Then the face hits the hard asphalt.

The devices want to be operated in a concentrated manner.

If you've had a drink, you can't.

Unfortunately, too many e-scooter drivers seem to forget that.

But the same applies here: Prohibiting is not the right way.

The devices can help in modern traffic concepts, some have a helmet on board as standard.

Speaking of alcohol in the blood:

The German Winegrowers' Association is vigorously opposing the European Union's proposal to completely ban the use of plant protection products in so-called sensitive areas - including a three-meter-wide buffer strip - and outside on 50 percent of the average for the years 2015 to 2017 to limit the funds used.

Public parks and gardens, settlements, but also bird sanctuaries are considered “sensitive” areas.

From the point of view of the winegrowers' association, a ban on plant protection products would be equivalent to the "irreversible closure of a large part of the German vineyard area".

Oliver Bock reports and comments.

And in addition

, the Museumsuferfest is back and attracted around a million visitors to both banks of the Main, Christian Riethmüller was one of them

the Goethe University has to withdraw commitments for medicine and dentistry study places

closes the police after forest fires Hanau and in southern Hesse Heusenstamm arson as a cause.

Have a good start into the new week,

Yours, Carsten Knop

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.

The

for Monday

Lots of sunshine and mostly only loose cloud fields, mostly dry with temperatures around 26 degrees.

Traffic

Due to track construction work by Deutsche Bahn, the Golfstraße between Carl-von-Weinberg-Park and Am Poloplatz will be completely closed to all road users from Monday, August 29th to Tuesday, October 4th.

A detour recommendation for the golf course and the vocational training center is via Mörfelder Landstraße, Otto-Fleck-Schneise, Flughafenstraße, Dreieichschneise, farm roads through the city forest and at the polo field

have birthday

on

Monday 29 August

Rolf Hocke

, Honorary President of the Hessian Football Association, Frankfurt (80);

, former Hoechst pharmaceutical director, chairman of the supervisory board of Tougas Oilfield Solutions GmbH, Frankfurt (76);

, former chairman of the Frankfurt Arts and Crafts Association (65);

, Co-CEO of DZ Bank, Frankfurt (62);

, director of the Natural History Museum, Mainz (62).