The citizens looked mildly at the inertia of the coalition in Frankfurt City Hall as long as the scandal surrounding the failed mayor attracted everyone's attention.

In view of this, it is not easy, according to the widespread view, to make sensible politics.

But now Peter Feldmann has been history for four weeks as mayor, and it remains difficult.

The four-party alliance has so far come up with nothing on the urgent question of how reasonably orderly conditions can be restored in the station district, other than to criticize the proposals put forward by the CDU a few weeks ago, as was observed on Thursday in the Social and Health Committee .

It took the parties in the coalition too long to recognize the importance of this issue, and attempts to shift the problem off to Berlin are too transparent because the necessary legal framework for this and that is lacking.

But the catastrophic situation in this district is a Frankfurt problem, and it will be Frankfurters who have to solve it.

With the European School, on the other hand, it is becoming increasingly clear that the idea of ​​locating its new building on the festival grounds at Ratsweg was not the hoped-for liberation after years of debate, but rather raised numerous new questions.

And it's not even the trickiest of how many of the neighboring allotments can be preserved - hopefully all - but rather where the Dippemess and the circus guest performances should move to.

The fact that it is not so easy to relocate them to the Rebstock site because the trade fair company needs it for assembly and dismantling more than 200 days a year still doesn't seem to have really got through to the town hall - which, by the way, all the confessions, this city government takes the concerns of the economy seriously, punishes lies.

One no longer likes to remember the other permanent issues, the future location of opera and drama, the renovation of the Paulskirche, the deficits in housing construction.

However, no one in these four parties should believe that the painting of bicycle lanes all over the city will be enough as a performance record at the end of the five-year election period.

The big concern is that this kind of snail will continue for another six months, because the Christmas holidays are coming up, then the election campaign for the office of mayor will start and finally the new incumbent will first have to find his position in the magistrate.

It would then have been more than two years since the election on March 14, 2021.

At that time, the Roman alliance presented a rather over-the-top coalition agreement.

The current appearance is in stark contrast to this work program.