If you've ever been living around the Wiesbaden area, you might be familiar with the Mainz-Kastel area, and the bahnhof/train station.
The station isn't big (3 tracks) or noticeable. If you asked me how things changed since 1980....I'd laugh and tell you that they added a few signs, but it's the same basic station.
More people using it? I think you'd be shocked how many people enter/exit at this station.....going/coming from Frankfurt.
This week, the Wiesbaden folks announced the modernization program for the train station. Packaged under "Bahnhofsentwicklungsprogramm Hessen" (yes, a mouthful), there's about a dozen little things to be done....mostly to give it a new image....add elevators to get you from the station....to the second/third track area, and enhance marginal parking.
About three kilometers straight north of Mainz-Kastel....over the next four years....there's supposed to an entirely new housing development, with several thousand new residents to arrive. There is this belief (at least on paper) that a lot of them will be people who work in Frankfurt, and this group will venture from their home to the Mainz-Kastel train station....to reach work each day.
If you were to ask me.....do things ever change, well, if you wait long enough....yes, they do change.
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