The first song that I learned in school in English lessons, says a lot about German priorities. No, it was not “All my Ducklings”, and the “song of Germany”. It was a pretty dumb chorus, we sang in the choir: driving a car is so nice, wide and wide wid bum bum. How now say to Wiederseh’n… we travel through the whole world wide wide wid bum bum … The teacher, Mr. storm, an old authoritarian Alsatian, was a Maestro and conducted it with both hands our Canon.
To this chorus I had to think in the last couple of weeks, when I pursued the absurd debate on the speed limit of 130 km/h on motorways, which seems to deal with this country more than the Brexit or Donald trump’s provocations, more than the disturbing crisis-ridden world. Kilometers of comments in social media, and letters to the Newspapers with regard to a measure which appears to me to be only reasonable. The air pollution to reduce Stress and avoid accidents, what an excellent idea!
It shocked me, what an aggressive mood on the German racetracks. It is hardly a coincidence that one speaks of the car-“train” and not of the car-“street”. It is on German autobahns often outdated, and sometimes right, and often by a self-proclaimed racer, with 200 kilometers per hour or even faster on-the-go and on the light, horn presses, in order to get out of the way.
What is the suppressed Aggression has been breaking here? I hate these pushy, almost touching my bumper with the snout like a wild beast, behind his prey.
Very different is the slide often car empty American Highways, where the imposing carriage with the speed of scooters quietly through the endless Expanses of the prairies. Even in Italy, for the comparison to Germany is quiet and peaceful. And how pleasant it is to switch, on a French motorway, and from the steady flow of cars!
The opponents of Tempo 130 wagging menacingly with her yellow vest. Caution! People’s anger! Don’t touch my car! You only see what’s going on with a speed of 80 on the French national roads. If you want no yellow West Germany, then this project is equal to bury better.
In the process, they overlooked a number of occasions grudgingly or willingly, that the Yellow West, in France, are not wealthy citizens, the roundabouts occupy, to be able to in your middle-class cars, so right on the accelerator press. A speed limit to enforce on German motorways is about as futile as a weapons ban in the United States, or a ban on hunting in France. A suicide company to anyone aspiring to a political office.
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On the motorways of the Federal government against a General speed limit
a free ride for Free citizens! So it would not make much sense to me, however, why the right to grass on a highway, should be an expression of freedom. And in a society governed otherwise, extreme and Forbidden only in this way is paved! Arms Of Freedom.
