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Posted by Fytton on Mon Oct 11 05:43:09 2010, in response to Time Magazine takes notice (Big protests against "Stuttgart 21" [Germany]), posted by Olog-hai on Sun Oct 10 16:57:39 2010. This is fascinating, both politically and as regards rail operating concepts. Many large cities around the world are served by termini rather than through stations, and the idea of making them into through stations by buiding tunnels under the city centres has to be a good one in priciple. It makes train services faster and more cost-effective to run.This was done in Brussels many years ago and works well there, and - more relevantly to the Stuttgart controversy - has also been done successfully in Berlin recently, with the opening of the new Hauptbahnhof. But neither of these involved demolishing an existing historic station building or sacrificing a park, and neither occurred at a time of severe cuts in public expenditure generally. Circumstances alter cases. It looks as if Stuttgart (a city I've never visited, so I'm just going on the media reports) may well be a case where application of the general priciple is inappropriate. |
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