Official inquiry examines still-unfinished Mons railway station fiasco

The Mons railway station was supposed to have been constructed by 2015, when the city was European Capital of Culture, but as the project remains over-budget and unfinished 22 years after its inception, an official parliamentary inquiry aims to examine what went wrong.A final report is still forthcoming, but Belgium’s federal mobility minister Georges Gilkinet (Ecolo) has already conceded to Le Soir that “the project was not managed in an optimal way”.The original project aimed to create a bridge between the two parts of the city of Mons in Wallonia and is currently eight years behind schedule.It has been something of a white elephant given…