Public bus transport is the best way to promote German-Polish exchange
On the occasion of the 750. The founding day of Greifenhagen (Gryfino) on March 1st, 2004, declared the chairman of the board of the Association of Friends of the German-Polish European National Park Unteres Odertal e. V., Thomas Berg:
“With Poland’s accession to the European Union on May 1st, 2004, customs clearance at the previous border checkpoints will no longer be required, all that remains is a simplified, brief passport control. The processing is then much faster, the queues of cars are a thing of the past, at least that’s what the Federal Border Police is rightly expecting.
So it is about time that Germans and Poles get closer as good neighbors. The Mescherin / Greifenhagen (Gryfino) border crossing must be open to all EU citizens by May 1st at the latest, not just for those living on the border as before. However, it should only be opened for pedestrians, cyclists and coaches, not for individual car traffic. The narrow road through the sensitive nature reserve is not suitable for this.
Instead, a public bus should be set up, which runs every hour from Greifenhagen (Gryfino) via Mescherin and Gartz to Schwedt and from there again over the bridge to Nieder Kränig (Krajnik Dolny) and via Königsberg (Chojna) to Greifenhagen (Gryfino) . Such a bus in the roundabout would actually bring people together, even those who cannot or do not want to afford a car. Also in Frankfurt / O. Incidentally, a cross-border tram is being discussed. This serves shopping tourism as well as school exchanges. That would be a really cross-border pilot project, a good birthday present! ”
