The AI asks: Why misrepresentation and indiscriminateness in the Senior Citizens' Committee? – Local initiative

On 19 March 2025, the Senior Citizens' Advisory Council was to discuss an application from the AI for the establishment of a so-called "comfort strip" at the Alexandra car park – a simple but effective means of improving accessibility for the elderly and people with restrictions (cf. ME 9.05.2019). What happened there was more than just a misunderstanding – it was a prime example of how structural errors and political reflexes could suffocate a …