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What’s the point of building a metro if it only runs every 20 minutes??? That’s the kind of frequency you’d expect on secondary bus lines in small provincial cities in Europe! In Lille, France — a city 12 times smaller than LA — trains run every 66 seconds!
The D Line is reopening this Saturday, July 26. Trains will run every 12 mins from 9am to 8pm & every 20 mins at other times this weekend. Thank you for your patience during closure. Read about our work to connect the D Line to D Line Extension: thesource.metro.net/d-line-subway-…
🇫🇷🚇 The Paris metro turns 125 today! It inspired most systems around the world, even the word "metro" used in most languages comes from Paris! Now it’s being modernized with platform screen doors, driverless trains, and is set to double in size by 2031! @RATPgroup @IDFmobilites
Paris getting ready for Grand Paris Express 2: Electric Boogaloo. One of the few cities in the world outside of China that can match the scale of Chinese Metro expansion. Grand Paris Express Phase 1 and 2 will almost double the size of the Paris metro network in 25 years (2040).
In the next 5 years, Paris is set to overtake both London and New York City in terms of metro length, thanks to over 200 km of tracks currently under construction. In the 2030s, they’re gonna make sure London and New York never catch up again…
In the next 5 years, Paris is set to overtake both London and New York City in terms of metro length, thanks to over 200 km of tracks currently under construction. In the 2030s, they’re gonna make sure London and New York never catch up again…
Actually, probably even more than that — they’re already planning the next phase of their master plan (2030–2040). And that’s not even counting the dozens of kilometers of trams and BRTs… truly impressive!
Texas could also get a 2843 miles high-speed rail system, the second largest in the entire world!
Texas could get 330 miles and 278 stations of automated metro for what it currently spends on roads and highways, btw.
Schizophrenia in 3 acts: Metrolinx: Hires Deutsche Bahn to build a European-style regional rail system Deutsche Bahn: Proposes solutions and changes needed to achieve that Metrolinx: Fires Deutsche Bahn for doing its job thetrillium.ca/news/the-trill…
why is France able to build fully automated subways for ~20% the cost of the U.S.? Last I checked, pretty sure France has stronger union protections than we do
🇩🇰Copenhagen, Denmark (urban area population: 1.4 million), recently approved the construction of its fifth urban metro line. This new line will connect to all other metro lines, as well as the planned Øresundsmetro—an international, underwater high-speed metro to Malmö, Sweden!
🇪🇸🚇 Construction begins on Madrid Metro Line 5 extension! ➡️ 1.7 km | 1 station Ⓜ️ Connection to metro Line 8 ✈️ Direct access to Madrid Airport 💰 €188M (€110M/km | INT$211M/mi) 📆 Opens 2028 European cities keep building big (and cost-effectively) on transit!