Tor Lillqvist<p>I guess some of you in the <a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/BahnBubble" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BahnBubble</span></a> might have seen mentions how in Japan a "railway station" was built in six hours using 3D printing.</p><p>Did they construct a station building with waiting room, kiosks, staff rooms, technical spaces, platforms, passenger underpass or bridge, signals, comms, lighting, etc in six hours? No.</p><p>They constructed this small ugly plastic hut. That arrived prefabricated. All other infrastructure that make up the station was there already.</p><p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/world/asia/japan-3d-station.html?unlocked_article_code=1.-E4.XcqH.wyMphiwZwN2b&smid=url-share" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nytimes.com/2025/04/08/world/a</span><span class="invisible">sia/japan-3d-station.html?unlocked_article_code=1.-E4.XcqH.wyMphiwZwN2b&smid=url-share</span></a></p>