Herzogenaurach grune on a confrontation course
The meeting of the herzogenaurach city council on thursday, 25. June, includes twelve items on the agenda, mainly the annual financial statements and resolutions recommending the city’s subsidiaries to the shareholders’ meetings.
However, a motion by the green party and nicolai schaufler (die partei) entitled "sustainable mobility turnaround for herzogenaurach" was more likely to generate discussion the mayor of herzogenaurach and the parliamentary groups of the SPD and the CSU are concerned, because they demand a stop of the plans for the southern bypass and thus contradict the mayor as well as the parliamentary groups of the SPD and the CSU. The applicants are calling for a review of the aurachtal route. In contrast to mayor german hacker (SPD), for the grunen this motion is not against all reason, but a serious attempt to get final clarity on all possibilities for continuing a future-oriented mobility turnaround in herzogenaurach.
From a fundamental perspective, it is now time to consider how the city’s traffic development can be pushed further in the direction of sustainable mobility, the motion continues. Several possibilities are seen for this, including a possible aurachtal rail line. "That’s why, now that the stub is on stable footing, we would like to take the next step of examining whether an aurach valley line is additionally feasible under the conditions of the year 2020. For this, we need up-to-date, reliable and objective facts.", write the greens.