Actually, it goes ahead with Stuttgart 21. Last week announced the project company the track, you have reached the next milestone.

For the future underground Stuttgart Central, which is scheduled for completion in 2025, now the platforms were concreted and all four 420-meter platforms fully accessible;

about 15 000 cubic meters of concrete were used.

This good for the construction management between message obscures now again a realization that accompanies the mega-project since its launch: the cost increases seem to want to end.

Thiemo Heeg

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So the major infrastructure projects one billion euro is likely to once again around become more expensive than originally planned, it was learned on Friday.

According to information from the FAZ laying beat the station of the Baden-Württemberg state capital into the ground and the complex construction of connections with a total of almost 9.2 billion euros.

Until now it had been thought of 8.2 billion euros.

The German Railways (DB) will not comment on these figures.

Already, the Court expressed concerns

Berlin is heard that the sharp rise in construction prices were to blame for the renewed plan revision.

All the same, if it were not just about cost increases around the actual procurement.

Rather, you still have a buffer provided.

It is intended to prevent the builders need to come up with new figures again in a very short time.

The current increase in costs, however, did not come as a complete surprise.

Already in 2019 there were fears that the scheduled money is not enough.

At that time, the Federal Audit Office warned in a report to the audit committee of the Bundestag against further cost increases, consequences for the federal budget and risks for the entire railway infrastructure.

Such concerns have so far almost always confirmed.

The upscale in 1994 from the baptism and located since 2010 in the construction of highly controversial infrastructure project was originally supposed to cost EUR 2.6 billion, then more than 4 billion euros.

Finally, the forecasts were increased to 8.2 billion euros.

The recent inflation developments is for information of the news magazine "Der Spiegel" of a report by the auditing and consulting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers forth, which will be presented to the Audit Committee of the Supervisory Board of DB in the coming weeks.

This is more than inconvenient in a political environment that is characterized by the already controversy over the financing.

Last Baden-Württemberg Transport Minister Winfried Hermann (Green) had reiterated its request in January that the federal government should participate in the costs of Stuttgart 21st