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• straphan (2008-11-12 19:07:36)

  Can't see myself agreeing with you here, David. Frankfurt's masterplan envisaged a rail-free city-centre, with only the U-Bahns left. Other tramlines were to disappear. Fortunately, protests of the locals led to a reinstating of routes 11 and 12 around a week after their closure. The end result: three different U-Bahn lines with different platform heights, a half-baked tram system (route 14 terminating in the middle of nowhere, a very bad light priority system)... Stuttgart did a whole lot better with a similar amount of money in my opinion...

   
• dvigar (2008-11-12 20:33:05)

  @straphan - but to someone who has never seen Stuttgart or any of the other (West) German showpiece cities, it looked pretty good to me. Don't forget that I used to do daily battle with Thameslink trains.......and UK is not exactly pushing ahead with ambitious light rail plans! Interesting to hear the history, though - thanks.

   
• straphan (2008-11-13 16:26:06)

  Fair enough - but Frankfurt/M and south Hessen generally have a reputation to be full of road-crazy b(w)ankers that would ideally get rid of any rails they could see... Compared to Stuttgart, certain Ruhr cities or Munich, Frankfurt is a public transport mess...

   

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