Long gone are the days when a tram network was set up at lightning speed in a city like Frankfurt.
People who live and work on Europa-Allee can wait years for a subway connection.
Good things take time these days when it comes to infrastructure issues.
But it's not just politics that's to blame: just 14 percent of people in Kronberg recently voted in favor of a fiber optic connection in their house or apartment.
The country is not progressing like this - neither in the transport infrastructure, which has made the economy strong up to this point and the people prosperous due to its quality, nor in the data lines that are needed in order not to lose touch in the future.
The will to break new ground
It would be fatal to believe that the state has to take care of the challenges first.
On the contrary, the commitment of everyone is required, whether as an employee or in one's own company, to courageously tackle the new, to come up with ideas with which products can continue to be sold successfully all over the world.
The mutual business must continue to function in such a way that the state sets the framework for education and infrastructure so that such ideas can develop.
Every individual needs the will to break new ground.
Only then will the profits continue to flow in such a way that the state can take care of its tasks.
They must not continue to escalate, especially in the municipalities.
But where the public sector is required, it should move forward quickly and without bureaucracy.
At the moment there is a lack of both in Germany.
It's time for a wake-up call, possibly over the fiber optic line: do we always have to be skeptical about everything, can't we be pragmatic again?
Try things and then improve?
Like in old times?
Like the tram used to be?