Paris Transit Thread - Page 33

mrnyc · #**641** Posted **May 16, 2024, 3:35 PM**

aww — the revolutionary lisa coleman plays a little bit of power fantastic for us in a paris train station —

ssiguy · #**642** Posted **Yesterday, 7:46 PM**

It's wonderful that Paris is expanding it's Metro in such a huge way and much of it opening in time for the Olympics. It's very important that Parisians be able to see the positive long-term effects the city gained by hosting them. They will need all the good news they can get after the black-eye they just took by an abomination of an opening ceremony. The great city of Paris will go down as having the worst and most offensive opening ceremony in the history of the games. At least the new underground stations will allow the citizenry to escape the shame of the games they hosted from the tourists.

mousquet · #**643** Posted **Yesterday, 7:59 PM**

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Originally Posted by ssiguy

It's wonderful that Paris is expanding it's Metro in such a huge way and much of it opening in time for the Olympics.

Yeah but none of the subway extension has anything to do with the Olympics, nor is it close to be operated yet.

The southern portion of line 15 will be the 1st to be operational; not before next year or 2026 at the latest.
While the whole thing was 1st planned sometime by the late 2000s or early 2010s.

It's no wonder given the scale of the extension. You just can't build something like this overnight.
I'm actually kind of amazed that we still can effectively implement anything that large.
Because yes, when work is done, it's going to be something.

mrnyc · #**644** Posted **Yesterday, 8:50 PM**

its incredibly impressive.

meanwhile, we cant even get a half loop light rail on an already existing train route built in ny. ugh.

ssiguy · #**645** Posted **Yesterday, 9:02 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by mousquet

Yeah but none of the subway extension has anything to do with the Olympics, nor is it close to be operated yet.

The southern portion of line 15 will be the 1st to be operational; not before next year or 2026 at the latest.
While the whole thing was 1st planned sometime by the late 2000s or early 2010s.

It's no wonder given the scale of the extension. You just can't build something like this overnight.
I'm actually kind of amazed that we still can effectively implement anything that large.
Because yes, when work is done, it's going to be something.

Paris also seems to be getting this huge Metro expansion at a reasonable costs which NA can't manage to do, especially in the US.

Between Europe and NA, Paris & Toronto have the biggest and most comprehensive expansions under way.