What’s your city doing (or starting to do) that makes you happy?

  • djsaskdja@reddthat.comEnglish
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    1 year ago

    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.

    • Fried_out_Kombi@lemmy.worldOPMEnglish
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      1 year ago

      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!

  • captainlezbian@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    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.

  • AnxiousWorker@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    In my 3rd world country the catch is that is going to take 20 years to build it. In my city they took 15 years to upgrade a train system to a subway, and they are doing a entire underground line, with only 7 km, that started in 2014, which we have no idea about the complete percentage.

    • Cruxifux@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 year ago

      It takes that long in first world countries too.

      At least in the one I live in it does.

    • nbafantest@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 year ago

      I love finding a new section that has new separated bike lanes. It’s one of the best surprises. Basically “here’s an entire new city and area you can visit”