{"id":1162,"date":"2010-10-13T09:24:12","date_gmt":"2010-10-13T09:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/?p=1162"},"modified":"2010-10-12T09:24:35","modified_gmt":"2010-10-12T09:24:35","slug":"stuttgart-21-%e2%80%93-the-escalation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/stuttgart-21-%e2%80%93-the-escalation\/","title":{"rendered":"Stuttgart 21 \u2013 The escalation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- \t\t@page { margin: 2cm } \t\tP { margin-bottom: 0.21cm } -->This article is about one of the most current political matter that we have in Germany these weeks: The railway project Stuttgart 21.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-US\">The project is about building a new underground main station and new rail tracks in Stuttgart to make train service more efficient.  Therefore a part of the park has to be deformed and about 300 trees have to be chopped down.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-US\">The project was planned for 15 years and since some months it is legitimized by the state and by law. The construction works have begun. But at the same time a protest movement appeared. So since weeks there are a lot of demonstrations against Stuttgart 21. The protesters complain about the unmanageable costs, the long construction time (about 15 years!) and ecological matters.<\/p>\n<p>Some weeks ago, the government announced, that the first trees in the park could be chopped down on October 1<sup>st<\/sup>. So on September 30<sup>th<\/sup> police came to the park with about 1.000 people, water cannons and horses. At the same time a demonstration of school kids took place in the park. Through internet and other media, people saw that the police was there with a massive contingent and went there as well. The situation escalated when the police tried to clear certain areas for the construction workers.<\/p>\n<p>After some hours I also had the chance to go there. This is what I could capture on camera:<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-US\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Stuttgart 21 -- The escalation\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BVxtJTqePVk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-US\">No matter if you are for or against the project: This musn\u00b4t happen!!! Over 300 people were injured. Some of them seriously.<\/p>\n<p>After this day, the situation got even worse. Now the politicians try to calm down the situation and talk to each other to find solutions to deescalate the whole topic. I hope they will find a way to do so!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article is about one of the most current political matter that we have in Germany these weeks: The railway project Stuttgart 21.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[11807,11811,2680,7873,551762,11809,10379,11808,10546,11805,11810,11806],"class_list":["post-1162","post","type-post","status-publish","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-deomonstration","tag-escalation","tag-park","tag-police","tag-politics","tag-project","tag-protesters","tag-railway","tag-riot","tag-stuttgart-21","tag-trees","tag-water-cannon"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1162"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1175,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1162\/revisions\/1175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}