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Re:How the Fehmarnbelt Tunnel is being built [video] by xcambar on Friday February 18, 2022 @05:53PM (#30392241)
Is Denmark really angry?

About construction delays and politicians getting in the way etc., I can only think of BER as a catastrophic project. Do you have more in mind?

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Re:How the Fehmarnbelt Tunnel is being built [video] by bobthepanda on Friday February 18, 2022 @09:38PM (#30393933)
Stuttgart21 is also extremely late, over budget, and controversial enough that it's considered a reason why the Greens won city council in Stuttgart, marking their first ever majority council in a major German city.

In Cologne a tunnel collapsed during construction, killing two people: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cologne_Stadtbahn#Tunnel_colla...

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Re:How the Fehmarnbelt Tunnel is being built [video] by rurban on Saturday February 19, 2022 @06:10AM (#30396200)
Sure they are. They approved it 2011. Germany just now, halfways.

https://www.tunnel-online.info/en/artikel/tunnel__3596417.ht...

But apparently it's again stopped: https://www.dredgingtoday.com/2022/01/19/leipzig-court-tempo...

Overview: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fehmarn_Belt_Fixed_Link

There should be better articles about the cost overruns.

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