A memorial for the consequences of the Sparwut

At the beginning of the fear of the people was no to the ambitious project of the Zürcher S-Bahn: for this reason, strokes planners and politicians forty years ago, the cost for the Expansion of the railway station together Stadelhofen and claimed that the fourth Track was needed.

That was a miscalculation, leaked soon. Already in 1987, three years before the opening of the S-Bahn, the NZZ, under the title "consequences of a failed decision" for malicious comment caused, it was clear from the beginning that the fourth Track, "according to, mainly for the experience, not just a rare fault cases more than would have been desirable."

The Rest is known, the fears of the NZZ came true. Even more, the train station is just the Achilles heel of the S-Bahn network, but often the trigger for delays in the half of Switzerland is Stadelhofen. Now, SBB and the Federal government need to expand the train station for 900 million Swiss francs.

The Stadelhofen is extended for 900 million Swiss francs: the new look of the underground Railroad. Visualization: SBB

An exorbitant sum, especially when you consider that the entire S-Bahn network at the time cost around 750 million – and the fourth Track would have been at Stadelhofen for about 60 additional million is feasible.

Thus, the Stadelhofen is a memorial to the consequences of misunderstood Sparwut. And he is not, unfortunately, the only one. Another inglorious example of the police - and justice centre, before the opening is too small. Not to speak of the countless construction projects in the whole Canton, in which the bourgeois parties defend themselves in times of the climate crisis at the solar plants and the best possible Standards of energy efficiency. In the Knowledge that renovations and expansions are subsequently more expensive. And in the hope that there are others that have to suffer the consequences of the error.

So the 4 to. Track, clicking adjacent to the train station Stadelhofen (to Enlarge, please). Graphics: SBB

Whether SBB and the Federal government in the case of Stadelhofen have learned their lesson, it will show (read here, what is the SBB plan at the Stadelhofen). So the question is whether the fourth Track is sufficient, or whether, if it is drilled, perhaps, a fifth would make sense. However, With the planned opening in the year 2035, it takes already way too long, until the missing decision will be resolved by 1981. After that, the Stadelhofen must be sufficient for fifty years.

Created: 19.11.2019, 14:44 PM