BATZENBERGTUNNEL
“Train users – on the barricades”
Letter to the reader on “Railway begins drilling at Batzenberg” and “Searching for the best tunnel variant” by Michael Dörfler, BZ from March 18th:
Why should the travel time be faster? Shouldn’t the regular trains with punctual departure times be possible first? Many people complain about unpunctuality or even cancellation of the trains, and so much money is to be put into the new project and also huge interventions in nature are made? Since all “train users” should go to the barricades! And first of all, the lowering and expansion of the rail lines should be regulated and expanded by the localities or next door. There are always new ideas from Deutsche Bahn, but the old, current problems are overlooked or ignored?
Margret Wilhelm, Bad Krozingen
LOCAL TRANSPORT PLAN
“Unsuitable Regulations”
Letter to the editor on the article “Bus companies against new line planning” from March 17th:
How should better local public transport work in connection with the politically wanted traffic turnaround when the planners are endowed with so little competence and expertise? Instead of putting in the foreground ineffective, exaggerated regulations, the planners should allow the bus companies’ decades of experience to flow significantly more into them. The truth, which is deliberately kept secret, is to recover the tripled costs of the Breisgau S-Bahn. Obviously, this is only possible if you jerk off the bus (private) and use the rail (state). For this reason alone, the statement by Thomas Wisser – the funds for public transport must be used transparently and without discrimination – cannot be described as truthful. Because only in this way, when the buses are used as a feeder by rail, can you later advertise how great the number of rail passengers has increased.
It is high time that the mayors of the communities concerned defend themselves so that historically grown and well-functioning lines are not destroyed. Certainly there are opportunities for improvement here and there with little financial outlay.
The fact that the tone of the statement is now sharper is the sole fault of the ZRF planners, because obviously only this tone is taken into account.
Norbert Schmitt, March
OUTDOOR GASTRONOMY
“We are waiting for an opening perspective”
On the situation of the gastronomy and the article “Many do not know what happens next” from March 27th:
Closing the outdoor catering is not only wrong, it is even counterproductive. In the open air, in contrast to closed rooms or local public transport, there is a permanent exchange of air. The hygiene measures can be strictly adhered to and therefore the outdoor seating areas are certainly not the drivers of the pandemic.
We restaurateurs have invested in hygiene measures and are able to guarantee guests’ stay in compliance with corona. The fact is that people have the need to meet and communicate, and this applies to young and old. These meetings are now taking place in private or for example on the Dreisamwiesen. With so many people there, it is not possible to monitor compliance with the regulations. Where are the disinfectant dispensers, who assigns the seats and who guarantees that the distances are observed or that the masks are worn?
Nobody!
Not to mention the follow-up in the event of contagion. The restaurant was the first to close on November 2, 2020 and the incidence values have continued to rise since then. After five months we are eagerly waiting for a concrete opening perspective.
It has been proven that the virus is far less likely to be transmitted outdoors with a distance and mask than indoors. So let’s finally open up our outdoor seating areas again, that would be the right and safe step out of this whole misery.
Wolfgang Feierling-Rombach, Freiburg
CORONAIMPFUNG
“That is desperate”
For reporting on district vaccination centers and the chance to get a vaccination appointment:
For several weeks now I have been sitting for hours at the PC and also on the phone to get a vaccination appointment for myself and my wife. We are both 71 years old and therefore entitled to vaccinate, as the saying goes. Now I finally got an appointment for myself on April 1st. My wife doesn’t have one yet. That is desperate. Why couldn’t you put the dates together for a family? Our families aren’t that big anymore. It would be easy to enter all the people in a household in the form. And for the fight against the virus, it would certainly be better if one family were protected at a time and not just one family member at a time. Certainly it would have been much more effective to have the vaccinations sent to people via the residents’ registration offices by letter. You have all the data there. And not through this complicated system of telephone and computer. But it’s long too late for that.
Wolfgang Scharwenka, Gundelfingen
LAND DAY ELECTION
“Amazing View”
On Max Schuler’s comment after the state elections in Baden-Württemberg: “Green election success, impressive double victory” from March 15th:
With the statement “Pix did everything right” you begin your comment on the election success of the green candidate Pix in the state election. In your final sentence, you emphasize that Pix still has to take care of less use of pesticides in viticulture and that its continued success would also depend on the number of rotating wind turbines on the Black Forest heights. An astonishing view, probably only viewed with the ideologized green tunnel vision.
Apart from the fact that turning a wind turbine does not necessarily have to mean that regenerative energy is also generated with it, your associated demand for more wind turbines in the Black Forest ignores the facts.
The wind turbines planned a few years ago in the Münstertal on the mountain ranges in the state forest there were after examination by EnBW (!!) put aside again as unrealistic due to lack of wind openness. Or to put it another way: It wasn’t worth it. Do you even know about this process?
Likewise, the wind farm in Gersbach, for example, has so far not been nearly as profitable as was originally promised. This, too, has not yet been addressed in your newspaper. One can only hope that a representative elected to the state parliament will not lose sight of the facts and that he will take his oath seriously – for the benefit of the people.
Peter Bremberg, Bad Krozingen
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