This was a guided tour of the future main station in Stuttgart called Stuttgart21.
More pictures: https://imgur.com/a/8QnDQrO
(Disclaimer: The descriptions could be wrong for the east/west orientation :P)
They started this project 14(!) years ago, planned to be finished 2019, costing over 11 billion Euros.
Nobody wants it.
The site is still under construction (thought to be finished next year).
Also: This is, what I will ever associate with the words Stuttgart21 and eye:
graphic
(Lost one eye for being so criminal to protest against something the majority was against doing it.)
Please put a spoiler or disclaimer before that picture.
It’s important to know but it’s a bit too graphic. :/You are right.
Put a spoiler tag around the image. Seems to work in browsers but not in my lemmy client (sync).
It’s weird with some posts. Sometimes it works also on sync sometimes not…
The money drain as seen from below
it’s famous for being almost 5 billion € over the initial budget of 4.5 billion.
The initial budget was 2.5!
It’s like any budget planned in Germany (or the world) for mega projects like this.
But I can understand that considering this is (according to the guide) basically a full concrete-slab and cube underground made in basically one pour.
what in the Aeon Flux (2005) is this?
A main station
It’s interesting to see it from the inside. It has been in construction for as long as I’ve leaved here. It looks like the inside of a mother-ship of some alien species.
Of course there is a lot of controversy about this project. I feel rather neutral about it.
Same here. The tour was interesting and the offer to see what could not be seen or done easily (like entering the train tunnel) was something I couldnt pass.
But the things that happened before this is not something what should be forgot.
Aside from budget and time overruns it looks like they overshot the target of “futuristic” and landed in the middle of dystopian…
Reminds me of Mirror’s Edge. I kind of love the concrete and ambient light, flat colours and shadows look!
Is that already done? Remember the big protest against it 10years ago.
In the end how useless it is? And how much of a money pit it is/was
Not done and still in construction but I could see it being done by 2030 (at least so trains can fully drive through).
More pictures: https://imgur.com/a/8QnDQrO
(Disclaimer: The descriptions could be wrong for the east/west orientation :P)
And only 10 more years to finish it
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