• yetAnotherUser
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    3 months ago

    Almost, he advocated for building a ~37 km long maglev train (the Transrapid) between Munich main station and Munich airport.

    The project never made it past planning because it would’ve cost billions with limited economic gain.

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      3 months ago

      as always new technology is developed in germany and then they dont manage to apply it on scale

      hyper incompetent local politician Stoiber made heaps of terrible long term damaging decisions. But advocating for the locally developed transrapid isn’t one. Wouldn’t it be cool if it actually existed? His legacy remains this speech and rampant privatisation of public infrastructure which resulted in quality decline across the board😎 sadly no real 10 minute maglev

      his incoherent speech in written form reminds me of orange man tho