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[โ€“] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

With the best of intentions.

Obviously introducing a whole new railroad network is a whole task in of itself (see Stuttgart21).
Now make it accommodate a bullet train is even another issue.

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Fun fact:Stuttgart21 will service less trains than before https://wikireal.info/wiki/Stuttgart_21/Leistung#Fehler_in_den_bisherigen_Gutachten_.E2.80.93_was_bleibt.2C_sind_32_Z.C3.BCge

It is basically just a big real estate project as it frees up expensive space in the city centre.