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Re:The New Paris Métro Is Coming, and It's a Big Deal by quasse on Saturday November 25, 2023 @02:58PM (#38416172)
Meanwhile Seattle is planning to maybe-kinda-sorta begrudgingly start building one single light rail line to the west side of the city in the next few decades. Maybe it'll be ready by the time I retire.
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Re:The New Paris Métro Is Coming, and It's a Big Deal by Rebelgecko on Saturday November 25, 2023 @04:28PM (#38416853)
Until a few years ago there were some dumb limitations for federal infrastructure funding that connected trains to airports
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Re:The New Paris Métro Is Coming, and It's a Big Deal by wombat-man on Saturday November 25, 2023 @03:33PM (#38416447)
As someone who visits Seattle regularly it is painful seeing this roll out gradually.
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Re:The New Paris Métro Is Coming, and It's a Big Deal by throwaheyy on Sunday November 26, 2023 @04:04AM (#38420210)
As a Seattle resident I don’t mind it being gradual, but it is painful seeing its compromised again and again. For example, using slow light-rail vehicles on a regional length line, abandoning a centralised transfer hub, and monumental station designs that are either hundreds of feet underground or hundreds of feet in the air with escalator after escalator adding minutes to every trip.
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Re:The New Paris Métro Is Coming, and It's a Big Deal by ClimaxGravely on Saturday November 25, 2023 @11:09PM (#38419093)
In 1993 I remember thinking that the skytrain line to UBC in the Vancouver west side would be complete by the time I needed to go to university. They started building it a couple years ago, it's in progress now and last I checked due to people in the neighborhood complaining it won't make it all the way to the university. You have to complete the trip on a bus.

I guess Seattle and Vancouver really do have a lot in common.

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