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

  • djsaskdja@reddthat.com
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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.worldOPM
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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!

    • Fried_out_Kombi@lemmy.worldOPM
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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!

  • Jeanschyso@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I am going to ride the REM when it opens and finally visit the south shore. I want to see the living spaces over there. I am also looking forward to the REM to reach the Sauvé station so I can go downtown on trains the whole way.

  • captainlezbian@lemmy.world
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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.

  • AspieEgg@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    1 year ago

    This is basically what Ottawa is doing. The only mistake they made was that it doesn’t work when it snows… in Canada.

    • Cruxifux@lemmy.world
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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.