Costs Measured in Billions: Germany Has Become Extremely Disorganized
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Major infrastructure projects in Germany are turning into never-ending construction sagas. The opera house in Cologne, the deadline has been exceeded by a decade, and costs have risen to six times the original estimate. Why and how did this happen?
The new Berlin airport? The plans said five years; it was completed in fourteen. The main railway station project in Stuttgart? Still under construction after sixteen years. Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg? Nine years instead of three. The costs? Ten times higher than promised! Take the opera house in Cologne as an example. Built in the 1950s as a symbol of modern democracy, it was once a cultural jewel. By 2012, it needed renovation. The plan sounded simple: three
