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Re:The New Paris Métro Is Coming, and It's a Big Deal by johannes1234321 on Saturday November 25, 2023 @06:10PM (#38417616)
A well positioned ring on a big enough city can provide the right tangential connections, which avoids leading through center with diameter lines.

However if it is too close to the center the cost of extra transfer is likely too high.

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Re:The New Paris Métro Is Coming, and It's a Big Deal by thriftwy on Sunday November 26, 2023 @07:43AM (#38421187)
A ring is an important traffic egress/ingress source. More often than not, your destination is directly on the ring and you're not using it to make two connections, just one is sufficient.

Moscow inner ring has around the same number of stations than all the ones inside it (counting connections as one each)

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