Stuttgart’s ever-receding station is Germany’s latest transport fiasco
It has become a €12bn embarrassment
TRAVELLERS ARRIVING at or leaving from Stuttgart’s main railway station should be warned. They must allow an extra 10-15 minutes to get out of the building or get to the platforms to catch a train, because of an ugly maze of detours around Germany’s biggest construction site. “It has been like this since I was at school 13 years ago,” shrugs the barista at a nearby coffee shop.
This article appeared in the Europe section of the print edition under the headline “The XXL construction site”
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