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Originally Posted by ardecila
Why is it so good? Why??
I understand that the US' discomfort with public spending will never allow rail networks like those of Paris but we could definitely up our architecture/design game.
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Yet in Paris, the design is quite basic, we don't have the very ornamented stations like in Moscow metro or in Naples.
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A good news, the idea to close a line during several months instead of only during the night and weekend to increase the speed of the renovation is more and more popular among politics.
In the past the STIF (transport organisation authority of Paris region) refused to allow long closure despite the numerous requests of the SNCF and RFF.
This is about to change
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Jean-Paul Huchon agree to stop the traffic of some suburban lines in order to accelerate the renovation.
Jean-Paul Huchon, President of the Ile-de-France region and of the regional transport union, said he was "ready", Thursday, January 9, 2014, to authorize the full stop of traffic of some commuter trains to accelerate the renovation of lines.
"I'm ready, where necessary, to allow the interruption of traffic for the work of improvement be accelerated and completed, "said in his vows Huchon, president of the Syndicat des transports d'Ile-de-France (STIF), transit authority in the region.
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Executive Director of SNCF Transilien Bénédicte Tilloy, also defended the "break" in the manner of conducting the work in the Île-de-France, asking to "stop doing work with a spoon," given the magnitude of sites.
The idea to completely stop a line to achieve faster work rather than perform night and weekend, had already been advanced to the Stif, at a hearing in November 2013 pf Mr Pepy, Ms. Tilloy and Jacques Rapoport, President of RFF (infrastructure manager).
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