He used an ai voice i think

@@Tappygameplay I hate that.

@@Eurobazz the voice is pretty good

@@Tappygameplay It's awful.

Over and over again - the mispronunciation is too distracting

correct the new station will have fewer platforms then the old one. Luckily this project is not a total (designed by political comitee) clusterfuck as the Willy Brandt airport in Berlin was.

@@obelic71 is it compleatly replacing the old station or is it jus augmenting it if there is a problem in the tunnel could they reroute the train to the old station.

@@alexisdespland4939 The new platforms are build beneath the old station. At first drafts of the project they wanted to demolish also the old station building what resulted in a mass public outcry and campain to incorporate the historic station building into the plan. It was succesfull and the old station building is now a part of the plan. When the new tracks are completed the above ground tracks, platforms and yard will be demolished. The station and its massive rail yard lies in the center of Stuttgart so the ground is prime realestate for housing and offices Redeveloping that area finances a part of the project. Another famous big main terminal station who had no run through option was the Station of Antwerp in Belgium That one got deep level tracks and platforms and the historic station was renovated back to its 1873 grandure. As a modern transport hub it also became a must visit tourist attraction.

3 billion 1994 in a "planning stage". When the construction was started in 2010 the costs were estimated to be nearly 5 billion. In 2011 the project was due to protests politically haulted. And only restarted after some improvements (which did of course increase also the costs). The construction cost price explosion in the last decade is not limited to Stuttgart 21. Current comparable railway projects cost 2-3 times more per range kilometer than Stuttgart 21.

May I suggest you check on your spelling of Stuttgart first?

Those are the "route lengths". 33 km of tunnel route. 59 km of tunnels had to be built for this. There are only a few double-track tunnels. There are also auxiliary tunnels. E.g. the main tunnel bypasses the future airport train stations, but there are additional branch tunnels to enable trains to call at the airport train station. 57 km of new route will be so 140-150 km of new tracks. The new parking station Untertürkheim has alone nearly 10 km of tracks.

Having an Italian lecture Germans on efficiency and timeliness is some good comedy...

While I agree... It's not just a German problem... It's the rule pretty much everywhere, except for maybe China... They probably would've completed it in 12 months

@@vi-yn1ss our (Australian) beloved government very likes to start megaprojects and blow them threefold (Inland rail, Snowy 2 etc) but its typical German to meke huge plan and go by it even when hit the wall, not solving the problem but bruteforce it.

A transit station with 8 tracks has more capacity than a terminal station with 15 tracks (track 1 is not used anymore for scheduled trains since the S-Bahn was opened in the late 1970s due to changes in the track layout). Also the current terminal train station can only be accessed by railway tunnels. And some of those had to be built through Anydride as well. Like the south-west tube of the Pragtunnel. Built in 1844 (the 2nd oldest railway tunnel in Germany still in use). Stuttgart is a challenging ground to built tunnels - but this is manageable. Due to its topography Stuttgart has quite some experience with tunnels. The first tunnel for motorcars on the planet was also built in Stuttgart (Schwabtunnel 1896). There is no rule for the incline of platforms. There is a recommendation for the incline of tracks at train stations. Until so 40 years ago this was a rule (with the option for an exception). The background was the poor braking force of decoupled rail cars at train stations. But this one has improved. Passenger rail cars are becoming anyway exotic nowadays. And unlike with the old terminal train station where decoupling the loco from the rail cars is the norm, this task is obsolete at the new transit station.

@@martinstock Uncoupling trains and locomotives is obsolete nowadays…push-pull…EMU’s…

Not by a long shot. It currently has 16 tracks, the new one will have 8. The Munich terminal station for example has 36 tracks above ground for the trains and additional underground tracks for S-Bahn and U-Bahn