A level crossing in a field and a bridge over nothing to nowhere.

[Ron Ron Ron]

The Brandenburg Airport fiasco is well known, but here a couple of Germany's lesser known public finance and poor planning scandals.

 

A level crossing built across a line, in a field the middle of nowhere in eastern Saxony.

A proposed link road was never built....

 

  

 

 

 A new link road to the site of a proposed new industrial area, at Ladenburg in Baden-Württemberg, was given the go ahead.

The new road involved building a bridge over a privately owned industrial railway branch.

What the local authority hadn't taken into account was that the line was disused and the tracks were due to be lifted.

The tracks were subsequently removed and the land put up for sale, but the bridge was still built.

The associated link road that it was supposed to carry, has yet to appear.

 

  

 

 

 

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[hayfield]

Watching recent TV shows about engineering matters seen to show that the long held assumption that the German nation's ability to be super efficient is not all that's its cracked up to be, as it seems heavily bogged down by a dogma of adhering to rules and regulations.  Can't help having a smile of these things, but I guess it happens in most countries 

[bbishop]

But small beer when compared to HS2.

 

Alright, we need a new route initially to Brum, but the specification is wrong!  Now we better return to the topic!!  Bill

[hayfield]

1 hour ago, bbishop said:

But small beer when compared to HS2.

 

Alright, we need a new route initially to Brum, but the specification is wrong!  Now we better return to the topic!!  Bill

 

Covid 19 may prove you right, but when the decisions were made, certainly the suburban lines into London were full and needed expanding and intercity travel was on the increase as well

 

Its a proven fact that separating fast and slow trains improves both types of service, having used both the French and Italian railways where this has happened, plus UK Eurostar line from St Pancras, this method proves the point and compares favorably ( on short intercity journeys) with  air travel city center to city center, in time and saves a massive amount of pollution 

[TheQ]

On 11/11/2020 at 08:47, Ron Ron Ron said:

The Brandenburg Airport fiasco is well known, but here a couple of Germany's lesser known public finance and poor planning scandals.

 

A level crossing built across a line, in a field the middle of nowhere in eastern Saxony.

A proposed link road was never built....

 

  

 

 

 A new link road to the site of a proposed new industrial area, at Ladenburg in Baden-Württemberg, was given the go ahead.

The new road involved building a bridge over a privately owned industrial railway branch.

What the local authority hadn't taken into account was that the line was disused and the tracks were due to be lifted.

The tracks were subsequently removed and the land put up for sale, but the bridge was still built.

The associated link road that it was supposed to carry, has yet to appear.

 

  

 

 

 

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Reminds me of Milton Keynes when it was first built,  for a, long time there were bridges, roads and footpaths going nowhere.. Until the eventually they joined the dots.. 

[Ron Ron Ron]

42 minutes ago, TheQ said:

Reminds me of Milton Keynes when it was first built,  for a, long time there were bridges, roads and footpaths going nowhere.. Until the eventually they joined the dots.. 

 

Except in the case of the German bridge, it’s not in anticipation of future development. It was built despite the fact that it would never be needed.

 

 

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