Photo Gallery 'Stuttgart 21'
A multibillion railway development project is going ahead in Stuttgart, despite the fact that it offers hardly any benefits for the rail network and the money would be better spent elsewhere. This picture shows a computer-generated image of how the "Stuttgart 21" project will look when it is finished.
Then-Deutsche Bahn CEO Heinz Dürr (left) fired the initial salvo for the massive project at a now-legendary press conference in 1995 together with then-Transportation Minister Matthias Wissmann (center), then-Baden-Württemberg Governor Erwin Teufel (right) and Manfred Rommel, the mayor of Stuttgart at the time. All four were natives of Swabia, the region surrounding Stuttgart, and all four backed the tunnel project. And, so, the foundation was laid for wasting a massive amount of money.
