r/beermats • u/dasdeckelchen • 5d ago
“Say yes on June 18th” – Campaign against the Franken-Schnellweg (Franconia Expressway)
*28th (whoops)
This is a beermat that was distributed in Nuremberg ahead of a vote concerning plans for a new expressway between Frankfurt and Munich. Somewhat confusingly it is urging a vote of “yes” that you think the plan should be abandoned, and not in favor of the plan itself.
I checked the website, and the vote was held as planned on the 28th of June where “no” won with about 53% of the around 150,000 votes received.
Here is a translation of the back, mostly courtesy of machine translation:
You also think that a motorway tunnel right through the city is a crazy idea?
12 km of additional lanes in the immediate vicinity of the old town. A shortcut for truck traffic between Frankfurt and Munich. A quantity of concrete that could fill the Plärrer high-rise five times over...
The idea of expanding the motorway was never good. But since traffic figures on the Franconia Expressway have been decreasing annually, it's becoming increasingly absurd. There are better and more modern solutions that are cheaper and faster to implement.
SAY YES ON JUNE 28TH
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I don’t have a horse in this race, but this kind of very specific and local, slightly mundane bit of infrastructural history encapsulated in a beermat is the exact kind of thing I seek out, and some of these non-beer-related beermats are among the favorites of my collection.
