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Re:Brutalism is Back by ucaetano on Wednesday October 12, 2016 @01:00AM (#12690515)
Paris has well-planned routes? Not at all! Take line 12 for example, a crooked, slow line with stations sometimes a single block apart.

There are no escalators or elevators except for a few stations, and the trains rattle and shake as much as NYC. Not to mention the narrow trains running on standard gauge, created like that on purpose so the federal government wouldn't take it over and run their own trains.

Line 14 is the only one which would qualify as a modern transportation system.

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Re:Brutalism is Back by RockyMcNuts on Wednesday October 12, 2016 @08:19AM (#12692146)
anywhere you go in Paris, you're a few minutes walk from a métro station...NYC subway mostly goes down main transportation axes, there are pretty big deserts where you have a very long walk or take a bus to the subway, even in Manhattan but especially in outer boroughs.
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