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Are you sure that you aren’t just talking about either of: BER, Stuttgart 21 or Elbphilharmonie? I recently tried to remember more projects that were terribly
by _Microft 5y ago
Are you sure that you aren’t just talking about either of: BER, Stuttgart 21 or Elbphilharmonie?
I recently tried to remember more projects that were terribly late and over budget and actually had difficulties finding any.
- bobthepanda 5y agoU5 in Berlin came in so late that connecting the part they managed to finish became a whole second project. In Koln a tunnel for the Stadtbahn caused a building to collapse and has delayed the full operation of the tunnel.
- pantalaimon 5y agoAnd they completely abandoned the extension further west for which the stations Turmstraße and Jungfernheide were prepared for - it’s now replaced by a Tram line that will arrive there no earlier than 2028
- rob74 5y agoActually the story is even more absurd: the "part they managed to finish" was originally built together with a car and long-distance rail tunnel in the late nineties. Then they were forced to finish it and operate it for a few years as a completely senseless 3-station line not connected to the rest of the network, because otherwise Berlin would have had to pay back the federal subsidies they received for building the original tunnel.
- fastball 5y agoShould those overruns not count when it comes to determining if large infrastructure projects have gotten slower or faster?
- _Microft 5y agoSure should they - but once not once per person thinking about the same thing. I think a huge problem is availability bias - these projects are/were reported on often because of the delays. The projects that work just fine get a whole lot less of attention.
- fastball 5y agoHow many large airports have been built in Germany in the last few decades? Sure one example isn't much but if that's one of the only examples...