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The better article on this would be "Why the Fehmarnbelt tunnel was not built". Because in Germany you cannot build big public projects in time and within budge
by rurban 5y ago
The better article on this would be "Why the Fehmarnbelt tunnel was not built". Because in Germany you cannot build big public projects in time and within budget. First you have politicians in the way, interfering in the project, with often absurd goals. But even worse, you have competing companies, which litigate contracts after the deadline, so you have to wait 10 years until the courts decided if the contract is valid or not. Costs are 10x higher then of course.
In Denmark this project would have been built in a year, in time and in budget. But unfortunately this involved Germany, so now they have another huge stinking overcost project. Denmark is angry
- xcambar 5y agoIs Denmark really angry? About construction delays and politicians getting in the way etc., I can only think of BER as a catastrophic project. Do you have more in mind?
- bobthepanda 5y agoStuttgart21 is also extremely late, over budget, and controversial enough that it's considered a reason why the Greens won city council in Stuttgart, marking their first ever majority council in a major German city. In Cologne a tunnel collapsed during construction, killing two people: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cologne_Stadtbahn#Tunnel_collapse_and_delays https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cologne_Stadtbahn#Tunnel_colla...
- rurban 5y agoSure they are. They approved it 2011. Germany just now, halfways. https://www.tunnel-online.info/en/artikel/tunnel__3596417.html https://www.tunnel-online.info/en/artikel/tunnel__3596417.ht... But apparently it's again stopped: https://www.dredgingtoday.com/2022/01/19/leipzig-court-temporarily-halts-fehmarnbelt-dredging-works/ https://www.dredgingtoday.com/2022/01/19/leipzig-court-tempo... Overview: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fehmarn_Belt_Fixed_Link https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fehmarn_Belt_Fixed_Link There should be better articles about the cost overruns.