After talking last night at the Brotherhood with some people I had to google Stuttgart some more. Stuttgart is of course the City I grew up in, or outside of. Not too big, not too small, kinda like Portland in size compared to other cities in this country. But I was reminded of a project that has been in the works in Stuttgart for many, many years now. Stuttgart is, and that was news to me, a example city of urban planning, which is probably why I like well designed cities so much ;-). But Stuttgart has been working on a huge and I mean HUGE project converting a railroad complex in the heart of the city. Moving the main passenger lines underground and completely reverting the flow of traffic from a dead-end station to a ride-through. This would free up many hectares of buildable land above ground.

Above is an amazing fly through video highlighting the new train connection line from Stuttgart to Ulm.

Oh, and and I should mention that the project is around 4 billion EURO – nice chunk of change!