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Paris Metro: From Orly Airport to the City Center in 25 Minutes - We Build Value (www.webuildvalue.com)

submitted 5 months ago by azimir@lemmy.ml to c/transit@lemmy.world

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Paris continues to rock it on transit construction. It takes decades to modernize and refurbish a tier 1 city's infrastructure and they're well ahead of schedule on supporting the city's needs with new metros, trams, biking, and pedestrianized infrastructure.

Viva la France!

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[–] JubilantJaguar@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] azimir@lemmy.ml 3 points 5 months ago

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.