• Blastboom Strice
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    1 year ago

    Here in Greece, only one city (the capital) has an underground metro rail system and the second largest city has its metro system being built for the last ~20-30 YEARS. That city used to have a tram decades ago, but they removed it and now it only has buses/taxis…

    You may ask why didn’t they make a new tram… Well, money/bribery (~most likely). That city may not be ideal for a tram, but still they could work it out and have it fixed much much sooner and cheaper and in the meantime the could be building the metro… It said the main part will be finished by the end of the year (though this was said multiple times in the past)…

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      1 year ago

      YUP. Don’t refuse to create ad-hoc lower value transit systems because, hypothetically, you could have a monorail or underground metrorail. Some mass transit is better than no mass transit, and higher values of mass transit now are better than superior mass transit in the future.

      And also hyperloop is never the answer.

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        1 year ago

        Yeah, something ~is better than nothing, but they could do so much better if they weren’t greedy…

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          1 year ago

          The metro rail system in the city I moved away from recently had an expansion fail to open for 3 years because the contract selection process involved cronyist intervention by a former president and the result was the buildings not being built with safe concrete for building