For flood polders, against flood polders, for toilets or surfing waves: Initiatives are often founded up and down the Danube.
As a correspondent in East Bavaria, you mainly have to deal with two things: the Danube and initiatives. It often goes together. In fact, it has to, because the expansion of the Danube is a tiresome topic that often requires organizing before politicians decide something that you don’t want or really want (keyword: flood polder). Beyond the unfortunately very serious topic of flood protection, the coming together of Upper Palatinate and Lower Bavarians willing to join forces on the one hand and the Danube on the other hand also brings something amusing to light.
At this point, the wonderful initiative for a urine-free bank of the Danube in Regensburg has already been mentioned. That should also please another initiative that would like to populate the Danube with surfers instead of wild bees and might be looking at Nuremberg with envy. The “Welle Regensburg” initiative is committed to creating a place for inner-city river surfing in the city on the Danube – modeled on the Eisbach wave in Munich and a brand new wave on the Pegnitz in Nuremberg, which Söder himself inaugurated. Also in Landshut and Passau and other places there are wave willing people who organize themselves.
In Regensburg you are not as far along as in Nuremberg. They have that in common with those who demand the toilet. If the prime minister doesn’t get involved himself, it will take years. But now there will soon be an artificial wave pool in the parking lot of a shopping center in the cathedral city. Surfing next to the Danube!
With initiatives, a small group often wants to convince the larger community that their interests are great for everyone. You can also watch while surfing. Or you can hop in the stream like in Munich and let yourself be carried away, which is not without its dangers – especially for social peace. To come back, you have to get on the tram in your bathing suit.
You can practice the coexistence of dripping wet people and public transport participants in Regensburg. The artificial wave now really has great transport connections, which can rarely be said in Lower Bavaria and the Upper Palatinate, and there are also many initiatives for this. The bus terminal is right next to the wave pool.