Hotel School Ghent Makes Way for New Tram Line: "Building Must Move to Make the Turn"

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In Ghent, the hotel school branch on Tweebruggenstraat is being partially demolished to make way for a new tram line. The school is situated on the route where the tram has to negotiate a bend. "If the building remains standing entirely, the bend will be too sharp and there will be noise pollution," states Flanders. The tram line is part of Gentspoort, which involves the construction of 7 kilometers of new tracks. The works will cost 780 million…