Slow news day here. According to this article in the reliably cheeky but solid English language German news site The Local, noted party girl/ celebutard and apparent mass transit enthusiast Paris Hilton is in the southwest German city of Stuttgart to, ahem, "educate herself" on the controversial Stuttgart 21 rail project. In a nutshell, Stuttgart 21 is a move to make the medium-sized city (best known as the HQ for both Porsche and Mercedes-Benz) a bit more relevant in terms of intra-European travel by means of an ultra modern train station (remember that trains are a preferred method of travel for many Euros) that will connect high speed rail to both Paris--the one in France, not the person in the photo-- and eventually Budapest Hungary. As tends to be the case with these sorts of massive public works projects, there are protests, problems, and accusations of malfeasance aplenty. I don't have a dog in this fight myself, though my personal observation of the Stuttgart station (I have been through there a couple times) is that there is definitely room for improvement, and that Nuremberg, a smaller city, has a much larger and more efficient train depot. But thank the stars that Ms. Hilton is making the effort to bone up on this boondoggle while taking time out of spokesperson-ing that undrinkable champagne in a can swill that she flogs.
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