Are there more pictures that show how the station blends in with the neighborhood? This fist image makes you really wonder why they need such an awesome station.
Only cost half a billion euros, well worth the tax money
I don’t expect less from a cathedral that siphoned half a billion from Wallonia, Brussels, Flanders and even European funds.
Why do PS presidents always spend all money on building monuments in their hometown?
Wait this thing is finished?
And no tourists will go to a city just for its train station
List of 7 magnificents money pits?
Initially it would cost 37 million euros but the counter currently stands at 480 million. And all that money for a train station that handles a mere 10.000 passengers per day, making it the number 15th most busy station of Belgium. It doesn’t even have a high speed trains unlike Liege where another of Calatrava’s expensive stations was built.
*cries in Gent-Sint-Pieters*
The vanity project of a socialist politician <3
Let’s see:
Two stations in Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia, two stations near Paris, a station in Sydney, a station in a Chinese city with 18 million inhabitants and … *checks notes* a station in Mons, a Belgian town with 90,000 souls.
Jesus christ architecture is dead
Socialists and money. The worst combo ever.
Hopefully they’ll justify the cost by adding more train lines. Like high speed trains to londen and paris from there. Could be good
Spending Tax money is easy
Inspired by Aliens movie.
Say what you want about metro 3 but at least it will relieve heavy saturated public transport arteries. This is a vanity project and money pit for a “city”.
Absolute horror and waste of money
I don’t understand how the government wants to raise taxes/do an index jump and at the same time spend 480 million euros on a single train station in a small city. Maybe the government should look inwards first… What else are they wasting tax money on?
And Ghent, a more important station gets this lousy design.
Waste of money.
lol last time I went there it was pretty much nothing
Corruption at its finest
Slick but nobody wants to go to Mons
A crown for the Walloon King wannabe. Let others eat cake.
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The half-finished train station
Are there more pictures that show how the station blends in with the neighborhood? This fist image makes you really wonder why they need such an awesome station.
Only cost half a billion euros, well worth the tax money
I don’t expect less from a cathedral that siphoned half a billion from Wallonia, Brussels, Flanders and even European funds.
Why do PS presidents always spend all money on building monuments in their hometown?
Wait this thing is finished?
And no tourists will go to a city just for its train station
List of 7 magnificents money pits?
Initially it would cost 37 million euros but the counter currently stands at 480 million. And all that money for a train station that handles a mere 10.000 passengers per day, making it the number 15th most busy station of Belgium. It doesn’t even have a high speed trains unlike Liege where another of Calatrava’s expensive stations was built.
*cries in Gent-Sint-Pieters*
The vanity project of a socialist politician <3
Let’s see:
Two stations in Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia, two stations near Paris, a station in Sydney, a station in a Chinese city with 18 million inhabitants and … *checks notes* a station in Mons, a Belgian town with 90,000 souls.
Jesus christ architecture is dead
Socialists and money. The worst combo ever.
Hopefully they’ll justify the cost by adding more train lines. Like high speed trains to londen and paris from there. Could be good
Spending Tax money is easy
Inspired by Aliens movie.
Say what you want about metro 3 but at least it will relieve heavy saturated public transport arteries. This is a vanity project and money pit for a “city”.
Absolute horror and waste of money
I don’t understand how the government wants to raise taxes/do an index jump and at the same time spend 480 million euros on a single train station in a small city. Maybe the government should look inwards first… What else are they wasting tax money on?
And Ghent, a more important station gets this lousy design.
Waste of money.
lol last time I went there it was pretty much nothing
Corruption at its finest
Slick but nobody wants to go to Mons
A crown for the Walloon King wannabe. Let others eat cake.
It’s a beautiful station and a pleasure to use.
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