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[–] 1 point 1 month ago (1 child)

@reece Also, the latest cost estimate for Stuttgart 21 from June 2026 is 14.5 billion Euros, up from 2.6 billion during the original planning.That is a lot of money to spend on the redevelopment of a car-centric city (that doubles as home for two of the bigger German car manufacturers), whilst the rest of the country's rail network has been suffering from severe under-investment for years and is now in such a bad state that it almost feels like they had sold off the tracks to Union Pacific.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago

    @reece IMO, the relevant question is not wether the finished S21 edifices will look nice when finished (current estimate: December 2031, when the original date was December 2019), but what that money could have been used for otherwise.Also, ignoring cost and time overruns, replacing a 17-track stub station that has been able to handle 45 trains per hour even back in 1970 with an 8-track through-station that can only handle 32 trains per hour does not sound like an improvement to me.

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