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Black Book: So-Da bridges and helicopter-never landing pad

2021-11-09T11:09:16.448Z


Bridges that are just there and a 27 million euro helicopter landing pad on which no helicopter will land: The taxpayers' association has struck again and denounced cases of wasted public funds.


Bridges that are just there and a 27 million euro helicopter landing pad on which no helicopter will land: The taxpayers' association has struck again and denounced cases of wasted public funds.

Düsseldorf - So-Da bridges and a helicopter-never landing site: The taxpayers' association has presented its new black book in which it denounces cases that, in its view, represent a waste of public funds in North Rhine-Westphalia.

On Tuesday it was that time again:

- An expensive, new multi-million dollar grave was created on the Kalkberg in Cologne: 27 million euros flowed into a rescue helicopter station there before the end of the project was announced, the taxpayers' association criticized on Tuesday in Düsseldorf.

- A few kilometers away in Euskirchen, a motorway bridge has been waiting for the associated motorway for 45 years.

In 1976 the bridge was built as part of the planned and then not built A56.

Since then, the bridge has been “there”.

At the time, it cost 460,000 Deutschmarks to build.

Slowly one can be curious what its demolition will cost.

- The same game takes place in Castrop-Rauxel: For more than 40 years there has been a concrete bridge over the Dortmunder Straße "so there".

It was built for 950,000 Deutschmarks as part of a bypass that still does not exist today.

- In Eslohe in the Hochsauerland district, too, the city has exaggerated the bridges a bit, says the taxpayers' association.

A pedestrian bridge for 95,000 euros was built right next to an existing bridge including a pedestrian path.

After all: the pedestrian walkway on the pedestrian bridge is 25 centimeters wider.

- The Cologne archeology project "MiQua" is getting more and more expensive, complains the taxpayers' association: The costs for taxpayers have risen from 48 million euros to 127 million euros.

- The Beethovenhalle in Bonn is an "old friend" for the federal government.

The cost of converting it into a “high-quality concert hall” has almost quadrupled from 43 to 162 million euros.

The completion scheduled for 2019 is not expected before 2024.

- The tragedy around the Cologne Opera is also continuing: the renovation costs are heading towards one billion euros.

Completion is now also targeted for 2024.

The loans over 40 years and the interim venue are also expensive.

More bad news: The Cologne theaters would have to worry about 15 million euros because they had invested their money in the bankrupt bank Greensill.

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Scaffolding acceptance at Cologne Cathedral is postponed: Too strong wind

The inspection of the scaffolding on the north tower of Cologne Cathedral planned for Tuesday has been postponed.

The reason for this is strong wind, said cathedral spokesman Markus Frädrich in the morning of the German press agency.

"There are already relatively strong gusts at the cathedral." During the day, these should become much stronger.

"It is better to postpone it than to have to break off in the middle," said Frädrich.

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- The Grotenburg Stadium in Krefeld is to be made fit for the third soccer league for 16.3 million euros.

In the meantime, a further 1.15 million euros have been added because a maintenance backlog has arisen.

For the insolvent football GmbH of the KFC Uerdingen, the third division has moved a long way off: After the forced relegation, the club currently only plays in the regional league - now the GmbH is even threatened with liquidation.

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Source: merkur

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