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Brescia, with a population of around 200k, is the smallest city in Italy with a metro system. The system currently consists of a single 13.7 km line (70% underground) with 17 stations ofc all equipped with platform screen doors. Trains are fully driverless too. ➡️Cost: €575 M

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🚊Paris just opened a 7-stop extension to tram T3b, nearing completing the loop around the city. T3 (a & b) has over 130 million annual passengers (400k/day), making it one of the busiest tram routes in the world. Paris tram network is now over 186.6 km (115.5 mi).

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Lausanne, a city in Switzerland with a population of just 141k (438k in the metropolitan area), is the smallest city in the world with a metro system. Despite its size, it has higher ridership than BART in the San Francisco Bay area, which has almost 10 million residents

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Two new #metro extensions are opening this month in #Paris , adding 14 stations on 21 km of tracks (98% underground). Here's a look at line 11 extension (this one is special as it includes the first elevated station built in Paris in 115 years!) #subway #europe #publictransit

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The majority of the world’s tram networks are located in Europe. Once a year, each European country sends a team of motormen (tram drivers) from one of its city to participate in the European Tramdriver Championship.

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Toulouse, southern France, 500k residents, is often called the "pink city", and fun fact: after the NYC subway, its metro system would be the second busiest system if it were located in the US, despite being in a city the size of Kansas City. 1/4

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This will undoubtedly become Europe’s most impressive station. In just a few weeks, Paris will open its new northern metro hub, where 250k passengers per day will soon be able to (cross-platform) transfer between lines 14, 15, 16, and 17. 📸 Jeremy Huppenoire ▶️ Charles Dureuil

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Yesterday, Phase 1 of Paris RER Line E west extension opened, finally allowing direct service between Gare du Nord & La Defense (respectively Europe’s busiest railway station and largest business district) at 120 kph.

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Truly majestic new metro station in La Défense. You can now travel on a direct train from Gare du Nord to the Paris business district in 10 min (with new RER E line that will also serve the 2024 Olympic press centre)

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The highly anticipated Paris RER E extension is now set to open in less than a week. Parisians will soon be able to zip at 120 kph/75 mph through a new tunnel 35 m/115 ft below Paris. The new stations look very modern and grandiose, like underground cathedrals.(poke @ChittiMarco )

Lagrange Armelle

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#Eole le jour du RDV ⏰Dernier grand jalon.Commission de sécurité Porte Maillot ✅ Bravo aux équipes du projet Eole compte à rebours lancé hâte que les voyageurs découvrent le prolongement & les 3 nvelles gares 💜⁦ @SNCFReseau ⁩ ⁦ @SNCFVoyageurs ⁩ ⁦ @IDFmobilites ⁩

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This medium-sized southeastern Euro city beats NYC at building metros! Sofia, Bulgaria (pop: 1.5 M) started building its metro system during the socialist era; the 1st line opened in 1998 Today, the system has 4 lines on 52 km of tracks & 47 stations ➡️450k daily passengers 1/4

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Thread: Istanbul recently added 43.7 km (26.7 mi) of new tracks to its metro system, all underground. The Istanbul metro now spans 243.3 km (151 mi) of tracks, making it the fourth-largest in Europe despite being only 34 years old. [1/4]

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Worth noting that Belgrade, Serbia is building 50% more rapid transit mileage than the whole USA. As a reminder: Serbia has a GDP per capita 800% lower than the USA after decades of wars and crises. The "europoors" rants on X just reflect an American inferiority complex. 1/5

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Belgrade, Serbia is the largest city in Europe without a rapid transit system. Fortunately, that's about to change with the under construction Belgrade metro,currently the 4th largest metro project in Europe ➡️ 3 lines ➡️ 69 stations ➡️ 69 km (95% underground) ➡️ €6B

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Dozens of massive public transit projects are underway in Paris. They really stand out with their world-class signage & architectural design. Line 14 15.7 km / 10 mi extension is set to open in June for the Olympics; its ridership will rise to 1 million passengers/day. 1/5

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Une visite passionnante de la gare ligne 14 d'Orly. Un outil qui beneficiera aux voyageurs mais aussi aux salariés de la zone aéroportuaire, connecté à une nouvelle gare routière et demain la ligne 18🚇

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The Madrid metro is the 3rd largest rapid transit system in Europe, with 242 stations on 293 km of tracks (90% underground). While it is already quite impressive, it is set to get even bigger with new extensions totaling over 32 km of new tracks by 2030. Credit: elmundo

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The Copenhagen metro is a rather new system, it opened in 2002 and now has 38 km of tracks (75% underground) and 39 stations on 4 lines (or 2 lines with branches). It is one of the few systems in the world which offers 24/7 services, made easier by the driverless trains.

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If the US had similar costs to a recent project in Turkey (Istanbul M11, a fully underground 69 km/43 mi high-speed metro line that cost €1 billion), they could build a 488 km/303 mi system (bigger than the entire NYC subway) for the same price as the 2nd Avenue Subway Phase 2.

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Instead of standard concrete structures built using launching gantries, the elevated section of line 11 pays tribute to the legacy system. It's made of steel with a weather-protected pedestrian and biking promenade underneath.

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By mastering costs control, European countries have made rapid transit construction affordable for small cities, which also benefit from centralized expertise. And despite being cheap, those new metro systems are way more modern than other super expensive projects elsewhere.

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America: spend $10 billion on a mixed-traffic tram and call it a mega-project. France/continental Europe and Asia: Build massive underground train cathedrals (This one was built under an active mall without ever closing it) for 1/10 the cost and without making a fuss about it.

Marco Chitti

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North American project managers: "You know, moving utilities to build a surface tram is risky. We need a 50% contingency & a 50% risk provision on our budget" French engineers: "we are gonna build a literal train cathedral under an active mall for less than your contingency"

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@JRUrbaneNetwork @Lostpolitik94 The most basic thing in China like a 70km fully underground, 160km/h max-speed, driverless futuristic looking metro line for $200M/km sounds like sc-fi to North Americans, considering that China had none of these 20 years ago make them think they must have cheated somehow lmao

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@RM_Transit And Eole tunnel is single-bored, 30 meters deep under central Paris, so impressive! The new stations looks so massive, reminiscent of the Elizabeth line in London.

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Paris cable & rail transit 2020-2030 roadmap (BRT projects not included): -2020- Extensions: M14 ✅ T4 ✅ -2021- Opening: T9 ✅ -2022- Opening: T13 ✅ Extensions: M4 ✅ M12 ✅ Automation: M4 ✅ -2023- Openings: T10 ✅ T12 ✅ 1/3

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@RM_Transit Passenger information is such an underrated aspect of transit, yet it makes all the difference. In Paris, every station is equipped with LCD screens showing connecting bus lines and overall status of each line. No ad, 100% info.

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Marseille, France is currently undertaking one of the most impressive modernization project: Last year: New modern fare gates, contactless payment & fare capping ➡️done ✅ This year: New modern trains will finally be rolled out, but not yet driverless!

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@RM_Transit Marseille metro is the only system in the world to use the same signaling system as Montreal, guess what, they’re currently automating their entire system and installing PSDs. Why not just hire them to do the work in Montreal instead of spending billions on a worst project?

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Line 3 is the most recent addition to the system and was the first driverless metro line in the Slavic world. It runs at frequencies up to 90 sec and of course features platform screen doors. phase 1 opened in 2020, 2 is underway, 3 and 4 are planned. ➡️ Cost:€50 M/km (!!!) 2/4

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Recent American & Canadian rapid transit projects typically include long stretches of above ground sections to reduce costs. Projects in small European cities are typically mostly if not entirely underground. Imagine if Salt Lake City UT or Niagara Falls ON had underground RT!

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The disciplines include emergency braking, perfect stop (perfectly aligning the doors with a target), tram bowling, tram billards etc.

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European Tramdriver Championship is held in a different city each year, which means that the rolling stocks used for the competition range from super old legacy trams to modern European tramways. Budapest & Paris hold the record for the most victories at 2.

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Belgrade, Serbia is the largest city in Europe without a rapid transit system. Fortunately, that's about to change with the under construction Belgrade metro,currently the 4th largest metro project in Europe ➡️ 3 lines ➡️ 69 stations ➡️ 69 km (95% underground) ➡️ €6B

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The network consists of 2 lines. While M1 is a boring mostly surface-level line, M2 is much more interesting. It actually reuses a former funicular corridor, and is the second steepest metro line globally! It's also fully driverless and has platform screen doors at every station

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Correction: cost is actually €935 M or €68M/km, still extremely cheap compared to say the Vancouver Skytrain broadway subway extension which is set to cost CA$2.83 B for just 5.7 km

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@JRUrbaneNetwork Paris metro line 16 (29 km in just 26 min at speeds up to 120km/h, 100% underground through dense urban areas): INT$134M/km Finch west LRT (10.3 km in 38 min at just 60 km/h max speed, 95% in the middle of a suburban stroad): INT$180M/km (with an awful design despite its cost)

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The Geneva Leman Express only opened in 2019, but it already might be the world’s most successful international S-train system. Its 16 km city centre tunnel with 5 stations – a basic feature in many European city – is unique as it crosses the border between France and Switzerland

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Metro line automation projects history in France: 2012: Paris M1 2022: Lyon MB 2023: Paris M4 2026: Marseille M2 2027: Marseille M1 2035: Paris M13 & Lyon MA By 2035: there will be 13 GoA2 lines (all but one in Paris) & 20 GoA4 lines in France,by far the highest number in Europe

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Introducing line M3, this new line will serve the north-west of the city and connect with M2 twice. M3 will reuse the current platforms used by M2 at Lausanne Gare while a new tunnel and new platforms will be built for M2, allowing it to bypass the single track section.

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This is how they build metro stations in Europe. Toulouse, France, 500k residents (1M in the metro area) literally moved an entire monument to build a new metro station for its future 27 km line C. Credit: Tisseo

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This project used various construction techniques (something North American cities could learn from), including TBMs, mining, elevated right of way, and cut & cover.

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M2 construction only cost INT$ 343M (2000 rates). The city made smart decisions, like ordering the same rolling stock as Paris (both cities being francophone, they are closely related) at the same time, benefiting from reduced production costs.

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156 km (97 mi) of tracks & 68 stations will be accessible with a single-seat ride from this station. It was designed as a welcoming gathering place for the local community and Paris's rapidly developing 2nd business district, featuring exhibition, conference and cultural spaces.

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@JRUrbaneNetwork Actually very reminiscent of the story of many lines in China: started as a short insignificant suburban line that nobody ever heard about and ended as a massive cross-city line with 1M+ daily passengers and some of the longest tunneled sections in the entire world.

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Since its opening in 1992 (just 32 years ago), Paris' tram network has grown to become the 6th largest worldwide. With many extensions under construction, it is set to take the top spot by the early 2030s, overtaking Melbourne’s tram network.

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Despite being larger, 95% underground, and built in a dense European city, the Belgrade metro will still be significantly cheaper than the two subway extensions currently under construction in the US (in LA and Honolulu) combined, which are much simpler and 47% above ground. 2/5

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Its network consists of 2 (90% underground) lines and 38 stations, which are of course all equipped with platform screen doors. Trains are fully driverless and run to frequencies up to 60 SECONDS (!!!) during rush hours, some of the worlds’s highest frequencies. 2/4

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Istanbul, along with Paris and Moscow, has one of Europe's largest metro expansion plans, adding 196 km of tracks by 2030, costing less than 10% of NYC's Second Avenue Subway. Meanwhile, NYC won't expand its system at all… [4/4]

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Btw, a second phase (4 stations on 10 km of tracks, 100% underground) is reaching the planning stage by the end of this year. Driverless operation and platform screen doors will be retrofitted on the line as part of the project. Credit: RATP

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Toulouse is such a beautiful pedestrian-friendly city, with a typically southern European laid back lifestyle. People have a very good work-life balance and enjoy hanging out with friends on the river banks during sunny days ☀️

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The loop is now 75 % complete. The city officials announced that they want to build the remaining 25% in the foreseeable future; The project is in early planning stages and is now part of the Paris public transit master plan.

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@RM_Transit @rocketoperator Marseille, which is currently automating 2 lines at once, is getting them for even less! €80,000/door as part of its major metro renovation/modernization program

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But it is now running at capacity, and frequencies cannot be augmented due to a short single track section in the middle of the line from its funicular days. But the city has a plan to fix this issue:

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@JRUrbaneNetwork While most cities in North America struggle to build a single metro line, Guangzhou,Istanbul,Paris,Seoul and many other cities across Europe & Asia are already moving to the next stage: adding rapid/high-speed metro lines to complement their existing network! Time to move faster!

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A third line (line C) is currently under construction: - 27 km (16.7 mi) - 80% in deep tunnels under historic areas. - 21 new stations. - 200k daily passengers. ➡️ opening date: 2028 ➡️cost: only INT$ 3.3 billion (about INT$ 122 M/km) 3/4

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This is how they build metro stations in Europe. Toulouse, France, 500k residents (1M in the metro area) literally moved an entire monument to build a new metro station for its future 27 km line C. Credit: Tisseo

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To fix their state capacity, the US and Canada should hire and learn from experienced companies from world-class countries, just as Serbia hired Chinese 🇨🇳 and French 🇫🇷 companies to help with their metro project. 4/5

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The average yearly subway growth since 2000 has been 0.2 km for NYC and 2 km for Sofia. Which means that Sofia is building 10x more metro mileage than NYC! 3/4

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-2030- Extensions: M15 east 🚧 M15 west M17 🚧 M18 🚧 T1 T7 🚧 Total: RER: 55 km Metro: 191.3 km Tram: 96 km Gondola: 4.5 km ➡️ 347.7 km RER: hybrid metro-commuter rail system M: metro T: tram/tram-train C: gondola/cable cars ✅ completed 🚧 under construction 3/3

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@RM_Transit My personal favorite is from Paris, even during short interruptions during incidents, the RATP always shows alternatives routes on its app and twitter!

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Platform screen doors are being aggressively retrofitted in many cities (including Vienna, Marseille, Glasgow…) to ensure safety. This trend seems only limited to Europe and Asia for the moment.

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A car-centric mindset and of public transit bashing have led to underfunding and caused the US to lose its state capacity, now among the worst in the developed world. Though if many people advocate for public transit and a shift in mindset, things might change… 3/5

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Line B is also getting a short extension to connect with line C, the new interchange station will allow cross-platform transfers between both lines. 4/4

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Forgot to mention that the metro system signage and announcements are only in French and Occitan (the local language spoken in southern France), so no English atm.

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@RM_Transit This is truly impressive, despite being only 227km long today, the Paris metro is set to overtake both London and NYC and become the largest system in the western world (while being 90% underground!). And the gap will grow even more with M19 and many other projects in the 2030s!

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Europe clearly stands out from the rest of the world in terms of retrofitting driverless operation: Completed projects: Nuremberg U2 Paris M1 Madrid L11 Lyon MB Paris M4 Future/ongoing projects include: Marseille M1 & M2 Paris M13 Lyon MA Madrid M6 & M8 Prague MC Glasgow …

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Istanbul, Europe's largest city, went from having no metro in 1989 to having one of the world's fastest-growing systems! In just a few years, Istanbul's metro will even surpass NYC's century-old subway system in mileage.

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Istanbul metro 2024-2030 expansion roadmap: ✅ completed 🚧 under construction 2024 Extensions: M3 ✅ M5 ✅ M9 ✅ M11 ✅ 2025 Openings: M10 🚧 M12 🚧 M14 🚧 Extensions: M4 🚧 M5 🚧 M7 🚧 M11 🚧 2026 Extensions: M7 🚧 2027 Extensions: M1b 🚧 Before 2030 Opening: M13 🚧 [3/4]

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Belgrade had plans for a metro system for decades, almost none materialized (a few stations got built and are now part of the suburban rail system). This time, things are different, the project will be handled by transit greats: China & France.

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If they manage to do that, the US and Canada might be able to build rapid transit just as efficiently as their European and Asian counterparts. 5/5

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Line 3 south extension (1 station 2.5 km 100% underground) is set to open by the end of 2024. Line 11 extensions (14 stations 25 km 100% underground) are set to open in phases until 2030. Line 5 extension (1 station 1.5 km 100% underground) is set to open in 2026

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Why so much capacity? 1. The line is gonna be quite popular (650k passengers/day) 2. It will also serve as a relief line for RER line A (the busiest line in the world outside of East Asia) and handle its traffic when it is down for maintenance.

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-2024- Extensions: RER E 🚧 M11 🚧 M14 north 🚧 M14 south 🚧 T3b 🚧 -2025- Openings: M15 🚧 C1 🚧 Extension: T1 🚧 -2026- Openings: M16 🚧 M17 🚧 M18 🚧 Extensions: RER E 🚧 T1 🚧 -2027- Extensions: CDG AirPort Express 🚧 M18 🚧 T1 -2028- Extensions: M16 🚧 M17 🚧 T13🚧 2/3

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…But the most impressive project is definitely the Øresundsmetro/Öresundsmetro, Europe’s second international metro line and the world’s longest underwater metro line. It will connect Malmö Sweden with Copenhagen Denmark in 20 minutes on a 22 km 100% tunneled corridor.

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@RM_Transit @GdParisExpress @IDFmobilites @AlstomFrance @Siemens_France Amazing video on the new trains! I find quite ironic (but also very frustrating) that you were invited in France, a foreign country on the other side of the planet, but not in Toronto for the crosstown conference. Metrolinx should have more consideration for local creators.

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Nanterre-La Folie, the line’s new western terminal station will become a major interchange hub: Under construction: metro line 15 Under planning : metro line 18 Long-term (2040): metro lines 16, 17 and 19 A new pedestrian-friendly neighborhood is currently being built around it.

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The new stations are engineering masterpieces, La Defense in particular was actually built under an active mall without causing any disruption. Those pillars are 15m tall, the island platform is 25m wide and trains are 225m long (equivalent to 10-car Chinese type A trains)

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@JRUrbaneNetwork Calling "poor economic choices" things the US is incapable of building is the most American thing ever lmao. There’s so much jealousy among some of them, but I don't blame them tbh, seeing new metro lines opening every single week in Europe & Asia must be very frustrating…

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The line will operate at high speeds and up to 90 seconds frequencies. It will be another iteration of the high speed metro lines trend that started to flourish across Europe and Asia since the early 2020s, in cities like Guangzhou, Chengdu, Seoul, Paris or Istanbul.

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According to its public transit master plan, the metro is set to reach 80 km of tracks and 75 stations, with further expansion planned for the future. 4/4

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@yfreemark Toulouse (France) driverless metro line C: ➡️ 27 km of tracks (80% underground) ➡️ 21 stations ➡️ dense historical European city center environment (they literally had to move a whole monument!) ➡️ const. started in 2022 ➡️ set to open in 2028 💰 ~€116m/km or ~€150m/station

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Line 13 (originally a line 10 branch project) will be a new fully automated metro line. It will have 4 new stations along a 3 km fully underground route. Chamartin station already has platforms ready to accommodate Line 13 and allow cross-platform transfers with line 10.

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High-speed metro lines started operating in East Asia in the early 2020s and are now coming to Europe, most notably in Paris and Istanbul, with other cities planning some too. When most places in a city are served by public transit, they focus on the next step: express routes.

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4 new extensions opened since the beginning of 2024 (all 100% underground): M3: 8.4 km (5.2 mi) M5: 6.5 km (3.7 mi) M9: 11.3 km (6.8 mi) M11: 17.5 km (10.5 mi) [2/4]

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The Madrid transit authority also recently announced its plan to retrofit driverless operation on lines 6 & 8 between 2026 & 2029, which will allow for 90 seconds frequencies and increase safety by adding platform screen doors, which are the standard in Europe and Asia.

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In just 35 years,Istanbul has built a 243 km/151 mi system (95% underground, with half of it driverless). 91 km/57 mi are currently under construction and another 140 km are planned for 2030-2040, with a mix of local and high-speed (120+ km/h) metro lines.

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Thread: Istanbul recently added 43.7 km (26.7 mi) of new tracks to its metro system, all underground. The Istanbul metro now spans 243.3 km (151 mi) of tracks, making it the fourth-largest in Europe despite being only 34 years old. [1/4]

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Power China will build the tunnels and the station boxes, Alstom & Egis Rail will do the electrification, full-height PSDs, driverless signaling system, station equipments and build the trains. By using their experience, they can keep the costs low (<€100M/km).

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@RM_Transit @karlschubo People often think that Germany has the best roads because of its car culture/industry, in reality, countries that are less car-oriented like Switzerland or the Netherlands have better roads! And trams in France or Germany feel even smoother than the buses! Enjoy your trip!

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@JRUrbaneNetwork @Lostpolitik94 And countries like South Korea, France or Spain manage to build metros at the same cost as China, sometimes even cheaper. These countries have relatively high wages as well as stricter health, safety and work laws than the US. So the initial argument is completely wrong.

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@ChittiMarco I mean, let's acknowledge that it's quite an accomplishment to make the street look worse than before the LRT. I'm not sure if cities outside of North America would be able to do that as effectively. 💀

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Similar to China, France, South Korea, and Spain, Turkey has developed such state capacity that it can handle massive, high-quality infrastructure projects at low costs. What do you think the US can learn from Istanbul's metro development?

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Line 14 will then become one of the busiest lines in Europe. The stations have been designed with huge surfaces to accommodate the high passenger volumes and allow cross-platform transfers. Trains will run every 85 seconds during rush hours. Line 14’s new northern terminal: 2/5

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Puisque beaucoup d’entre vous ont apprécié les photos du futur pôle d’échange de Saint-Denis Pleyel où se croiseront à therme les @Ligne14_RATP , Ligne 15, @Ligne16_IDFM et Ligne 17 du réseau @IDFmobilites . Je vous joins quelques photos supplémentaires

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The RER line E is set to become the most connected line of the Greater Paris transit network and span 111 km of tracks. The line will have connections with: • 10 metro lines (+3 under construction and 3 others planned) • 4 tram lines (+2 under construction and 2 others planned)

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@RM_Transit Fair, but these stations are going to be way more impactful than the numerous 400m-spaced out stations of the legacy network; they really cannot be compared. One GPX station is roughly equivalent to maybe three legacy stations, both in terms of architecture and daily passengers

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I mentioned M11, which was Europe’s first high-speed metro line, running at up to 120 km/h / 75 mph. Istanbul is currently working on a much larger project: M34 (HızRay), a 74.5 km/46 mi fully underground high-speed line that will connect east and west Istanbul. Cost: €4 billion

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This 8 km new tunnel is actually the first phase of a larger project. It will help relieve congestion on RER lines A & B, the first and second busiest rail lines in the world outside of Asia. A 47 km / 30 mi second phase is already under construction and will open in 2026.

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#EOLE CAP vers l’ouest! Un grand jalon de plus franchi à La Défense! ✅commission de sécurité #Avis favorable Dernière ligne droite vers l’ouverture au public💜Bravo aux équipes du projet Eole & aux partenaires👍 ⁦ @SNCFReseau ⁩ ⁦ @IDFmobilites ⁩ ⁦ @Actu_Transilien ⁩

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Many other extensions are under planning or waiting for approval, and the system already has a ton of future proof features (such as another extra set of tracks at Chamartin for a future line 14 that will allow cross platform transfers with line 1).

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🇫🇷 donated €8.3M to Belgrade to fund the project studies, the city also hired the RATP to learn its savoir-faire on how to operate a driverless metro system. So nice to see France and China,2 world class countries for transit construction working together to help other countries

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@RM_Transit Cancel the ARTM and bring back the SOFRETU like in the good old days… Seriously Montreal should hire foreign talents from the other side of the pond to manage its projects, they did with the first REM (led by a Frenchman) and it turned well.

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@arpitrage Europe is getting into the underground high speed driverless metro/regional rail trend too! With Crossrail 1 & 2 in London, Paris M15, M16, M17, M18, M19 & RER E, Istanbul M11 & M34, the Öresund metro in Copenhagen/Malmö to name a few. Hundreds of miles of tunnels are being built

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@JRUrbaneNetwork Absolutely, the concept of LRT only exists because North America is not capable of building metro lines at reasonable costs, the term doesn’t even exist in many other languages! Just for comparison:

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Line 1 (21.8km) will be completed in 2028 Line 2 (24.2km) in 2030 (Both are UC since 2021) Line 3 (23km) has no opening date yet but is actively under planning Line 1 second branch (7km) isn’t part of the initial project.

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(Wuhan vibe coming to Paris @JRUrbaneNetwork ) The American mind cannot comprehend this: 3/5

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@JRUrbaneNetwork @Lostpolitik94 North America just doesn’t have the required state capacity, so the projects costs naturally balloon. PPPs cannot fix this, they’re gonna be 10x more expensive than their European & Asian counterparts.

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