Kein Stuttgart 21?

Do you remember the new layout for the high speed railway station of Stuttgart?
Ingenhoven Overdiek project, which won an international design competition in 1997 and that i personally consider a very nice project, is actually part of a much large set of interventions that the city of Stuttgart will undertake starting from the next year.




Stuttgart 21, this is the name of the entire project, will begin in January 2008. The project, as a portion of the European high speed route corridor between Paris and Budapest, intends to change the main train station in Stuttgart from a head station to a transit station and sustains an improvement of the train traffic in the surrounding region. In order to do that, at the Main Station worksite, the tracks will be turned of 90 degree and moved underground to allow the transit of trains. The Hauptbahnhof (current station building) will be converted in museum.



On this wave, and thinking about the huge amount of people that this transformation will obviously bring, Stuttgart 21 also includes new residential areas, the renovation of part of Rosenstein park, a new building for the fare and a new railway station for the airport.

How it works:
Area A :
28 ha (334 sq yard) , which is at a central point , will be used for individual trade , culture and special use for over regional meaning. The immediate boundary next to the Schloßgarten will be partly devoted to residences

Area B :
43 ha (514sq yard) is distinguish by its neighbourhood, the Schloßgarten , as well as by Rosensteinpark and will be used as a high quality residential area and offices.

Area C :
roughly 29 ha (346 sq yard), will be redeveloped with residences and offices

The construction was supposed to begin in 2000 and end in 2007: that didn't happen especially because residents' criticism due to
- the high costs of almost 3 billion Euro.
- the long and heavy impact of works on Stuttgarters lives.

Every day in the streets, the activists of Stuttgart21-Nein, danke! ask people to subscribe their petitions against the project and undertake demonstrations.
On the other hand the city fills our mail boxes with brochures explaining how sustainable, and worthwhile the project is and what a huge payback will give to the city.


Kein Stuttgart 21?
For the moment, Stuttgart 21 is a daily conversation on newspaper and among people.
Country you go, debate you find!