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The district committee intends to discontinue ferry services across the Main between Mühlheim and Maintal and to sell or sell the ship.
The end for the ferry Mühlheim is near. The district committee wants to stop the ferry service from Mühlheim to Maintal-Dörnigheim after almost 120 years. The Main ferry, in which around 90,000 euros have been invested in recent months, is to be sold “with the associated ancillary facilities” or recycled as scrap metal. The district council members who meet on June 24 have the final say.
As the district of Offenbach writes in a press release, the district committee recommends the end of the ferry service after its meeting on Tuesday. There were a total of nine interested parties for the ferry. “One on time within the tendering process that runs until December 2019, eight others after a radio call,” said press spokeswoman Ursula Luh. However, none of them had the suitability for the operation of this technically demanding ferry model, the ferry license was missing. The proposal by the Citizens’ Initiative (BI) Ferry to recruit future operators through their own training is therefore in vain: ferries could not be trained without suitable instructors, writes the district.
It is also not feasible for the Offenbach district and the Main-Kinzig district as well as the neighboring municipalities of Mühlheim and Maintal to operate the ferry themselves. This is regulated by paragraph 121 of the Hessian municipal code Accordingly, it is forbidden to oppose the Rumpenheim main ferry, which is operated by a private company without public subsidies, a publicly funded ferry service. In addition, the district fears a deficit of around EUR 183,000 a year because it assumes annual costs of EUR 417,000, but expects only EUR 234,000 in revenue.
Delay tactics complained
The BI ferry is horrified by the planned end. The deficit can still be quartered and thus overcome, says spokeswoman Petra Schneider. “A city bus in public transport also makes bad things.” If the Spiegel tenant family had not been terminated immediately in October 2017 due to safety deficiencies, but had worked out solutions with them, given them an operating grant and repaired the ship for 90,000 euros at the time, that would be done Ferry still driving. The successor Mahir Kolbüken was also terminated in July 2019 when the ferry broke down. Petra Schneider attests to the circle “bungled procedure with the aim to cut the ferry connection”. In a letter, she asked Transport Minister Tarek Al-Wazir (Greens) for help.
The faction “Citizens for Mühlheim” speaks of a tragedy of misinformation, back room politics, delaying tactics, false assertions and the ignoring of sensible solutions.
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