For years, the mega conversion of Stuttgart's main train station was the focus of the "Stuttgart 21" debate. With each completed chalice support, the dispute shifts to the Fildern. Because there plans for the Gäubahn cause heated spirits.
Stuttgart (dpa / lsw) - Fearing for their fields, farmers on the Filder plain want to demonstrate today with tractors and agricultural machinery against the construction of the Pfaffensteig tunnel on the Gäubahn between Böblingen and the airport. In the run-up to the campaign, the farmers announced that it was planned to convert the area that was to be taken away from the Plieningen farmers by the planning of the construction site and access to the rescue area for the tunnel construction. Another protest is planned an hour later at the construction site. Because if the tunnel for the Gäubahn were to be built, the drilling machine would probably start in Plieningen and dig into the ground there.
The Pfaffensteig tunnel, which is a little over eleven kilometers long and costs around one billion euros, is intended to lead the Gäubahn underground under the Filder mountains and end at the airport in the planned long-distance train station. From there, travelers should one day continue to the new Stuttgart underground station. Previously, trains from Horb were supposed to be routed to the airport via the S-Bahn tracks, but there would have been hardly any space for S-Bahn trains and regional and long-distance traffic.
