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by iuafhiuah 989 days ago
> Nothing there is truly designed to optimize how to improve in a place that can’t build. London can’t build either, even if its costs are a fraction of New York’s

Maybe I'm misunderstanding this statement, but between 2009 and 2022 London finished the 73 miles (118 km) long Crossrail Project (Elizabeth Line), with 26 miles (42 km) of new tunnel, 10 new stations, and 31 refurbished stations (some of which were entirely rebuilt).

  https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/mar/13/elizabeth-line-crossrail-opening-london
  https://web.archive.org/web/20180730181725/http://www.crossrail.co.uk/news/crossrail-in-numbers
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mancerayder 989 days ago
The CrossRail, and the DLR in all fairness isn't so far back in history.

Paris. Paris has all sorts of continuous transit improvements to turn the suburbs into denser areas, and exoburbs into suburbs. Grands Paris, is the name of the general long-term project, and the biggest transit upgrade is this: https://www.railway-technology.com/projects/grand-paris-expr...

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