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Paris Metro: From Orly Airport to the City Center in 25 Minutes - We Build Value
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What's interesting about the metro is that the way it never stops growing. In 125 years the only decade when new stations didn't open was the 1960s (when all the money went to the RER project). This seems to be a product of typically French top-down planning culture. In the Anglo countries it's usually more feast and famine, a burst of investment (if you're lucky) followed by decades of neglect until things get too bad to ignore.
Of in my city, rip out anything non-car in the 1930's and tell the poor people to buy a car or die being run over as pedestrians. We have busses, but it's like pulling teeth to get even marginally functional service anywhere.
A burst of investment would be like a rainstorm in a heatwave.