Questo è qualcosa di cui tutti i belgi possano essere orgogliosi: il piano incline a Ronquières!

You must be an optimist!

It was built when the mines and steel industry were already struggling and even closing. It is arguably the best example of waffle iron politics our there. Only in the last couple of years did the traffic figures pick up but still way lower than its projected capacity. It doesn’t help that its too expensive to maintain. In 2023 it was closed for a couple of months as a boat rammed a gate. The other container was in repairs for 1,5 years already!

It’s one of those very expensive megalomaniac structures, which will never pay itself back. Typical example of Belgian money squandering in the 60’s, 70’s and 80’s.

i would be more proud if that money went into a sovereign wealth fund instead

Trainstation of Mons/Liege would like a word.

Great Engineering (although i would call Calatrava great architecture/poor engineering), but thrown away money