What’s your city doing (or starting to do) that makes you happy?
I don’t know what city this post is referencing, but I’d be willing to bet a ton of money it’s not in the US lol.
It’s Montreal, so you are indeed correct. Honolulu did actually open the first segment of a very similar automated light metro system just 2 weeks ago, although it doesn’t have the same service frequency as ours. It’s still enough to make it America’s newest metro system, though!
Is this the REM? Operating frequency is 3:45 to 7:30.
Perhaps it is one of the future legs that will hit 2:30?
My city in indiana is starting a road diet and expanding the width of several sidewalks! Exciting times
Yeah trains are a massive civil engineering project. You have to commission a bunch of studies of everything from archaeology to soil and water to route efficiency, go through several levels of engineering designs, obtain a lot of connected land, then you have to build the thing including preparing the land to not settle too much under the weight of a train because soil is a particulate fluid. And every step of the way everyone is mad it’s taking so long and costing so much.
This is basically what Ottawa is doing. The only mistake they made was that it doesn’t work when it snows… in Canada.
They also built it to in a way that’s only really useful for commuters who mostly don’t even need to go downtown anymore 🙃
Don’t forget that it also breaks down in the summer too 🌞
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