1.Cunt and city

1.Cunt and city
2. Is your city's metro rail still run by incompetent shitheads who's only real talent is fucking up your whole day

LOS Angeles
1000% yes

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NYC
yes

Arnhem.
Not really. NS is shit but used to be worse

Im sure they try their best

I envy you so much rn

São Paulo
The CPTM is literally shit tier in some lines, but others are good. Metro manages to be decent somehow, which doesn't really matter since all goes to shit when the rush hour comes.

yes
last week woman died in metro so whole line just stopped working in one direction for 2 hours
at least we have free wifi and apple pay in metro

Melbourne
It's fucked, but not their fault. They are a subsidiary of MTR (Hong Kong), but the infrastructure is 150 years old. In summer they sometimes slow trains down so as not to buckle the tracks.

forgot picture

>1. Helsinki Finland
>2. No. Everything is fine. Everything is perfect in the peoples republic

1. Lodz, Poland
2. Their biggest claim to fame is needing a year to replace a faulty substation for overhead powerlines that had emergency shutdown every 3 days completely halting traffic in the city centre for an hour

city is too small for light rail
don't see what the big deal about it is, dedicated bus lanes make more sense

Santiago
yes

It's a town, and we only have one line that's the shortest in the country, and it's half touristic, but it's actually doing the best it's done since the end of automobile-scarcity socialism and the reunification of Germany. Back then it was required, afterwards it wasn't, now it's doing a nostalgic and even practical comeback, being ridden not only by tourists but also by people on their daily commute across town or to get to the train station. They just finished another quarter mile of restoring the original path.

no, not really, dont be a shithead

Why didn't the trains just share a track? Do they not connect rails in case of emergencies?
How difficult would it be to expand or improve their infrastructure? I'm pretty sure it would be expensive but could you guess by how much?
JUST

It's metro, there's only 2 tracks on most stations 4 at max

That actually looks comfy

Well what I mean is that here we have these things in between each station so in case something wrong happens, the trains can share a rail. It delays both sides by 15-30 min but they both move

It is. The comfiest and best looking car is the oldest one from 1928, and they run it every weekend making it the country's oldest streetcar in regular operation on the country's shortest streetcar network, but for daily operations they use newer socialist era models from the '60s I think, as pictured previously.

>I'm pretty sure it would be expensive but could you guess by how much?
Well, they are making a new underground line for $9 billion ($1 billion per km). But fixing old above ground lines is cheaper.
Still they would be looking at tens of billions. Self driving cars will be viable before they ever fix it.

What's the deal with LA light rail anyway? I've heard that besides other regulatory measures to increase housing density and walkability they're putting 100 billion dollars into it to expand it, how's that going? Is America's model pioneer automobile city going to be America's pioneer anti-automobile city?

Flag, Genova.
Pic related, the WHOLE extension of our metro. Took them 10 years to build the last station.

You don't fix the congestion, resource usage and space usage of cars by making cars self-driving. They're hailed as the future but they're not fixing anything, they're just taking some work off you while you're stuck in traffic just as before.

Yeah, but they could drive bumper to bumper at high speed because each car knows when the other cars are braking. Should lead to higher throughput on small roads and less need for highways.

Also they could be shared. You might have 0.1 cars per person, with people booking a car only when they need to go somewhere.

>You don't fix the congestion, resource usage and space usage of cars by making cars self-driving.

except instead of having trucks and delivery vans running during the day, you could have them all running at night with less traffic, but no extra pay for the drivers
an office drone in a self driving car could be as productive as in their office

People hate the thought of sharing their cars or not owning them in the first place, otherwise they could pretty much already use public transport.

Stockholm
Yes, they're fucking retarded and it's expensive as hell. Every single year they are surprised by SNOW, despite the fact that it has been snowing every year for thousands of years here

>toronto
Ye boiii
I mean just plan to get there early and you will be there on time.

People don't mind Uber. Also a lot of people resent owning cars but need one occasionally.

There is no light rail here. They ARE planning to expand by connecting the blue line that ends at 7th and metro to the northern part of the gold line. At the moment they are planning on expanding the green line to lax I believe. However the issue is that many lines (especially the blue line) has so many issues almost every time both due to maintenance and train failures. It'd be best they fix these issues before they expand

Forgot to add pic

I kek'd. That's pretty bad

>You might have 0.1 cars per person, with people booking a car only when they need to go somewhere.
You can share the cars right fucking now yet beside a few looneys using services like blabla noone does it.
The german is right. It's either public transport, or dystopian shitholes stretching hundreds of kiloemtres.

station platform is very nice but the train looks like a row of vending machines

1. Atlanta
2. Yes. Times of arrival/departure are merely a suggestion, and it will never be expanded or improved because of mismanagement.
MARTA in general is pretty shit. youtube.com/watch?v=3oXhLdeuxDw summarizes how most people feel about it.

1. Coimbra, Portugal.
2. Yes. The old suburban train tracks were ripped off to make way for the metro ones and then the money ran out, so now we were left without either.

The problem is that it connected to a sattelite dormitory city where everyone bought houses to which you can only travel by car/bus in some curvy-ass mountain roads, now.

this city is so incompetent. and elon musk is a retard he wants to build an underground network for cars. how about just a truly expansive and slick metro?

Yeah, because people have to book the cars and pick them up from designated places, etc.
If there was a citywide pool of shared cars, you would have a car turn up within the minute to wherever you were.
>dystopian shitholes stretching hundreds of kilometres
Well, we already have dystopian shit like that here. In outer suburbs it can be 5km walk to the nearest station.
Underground rail would be too expensive out there, so they would have to compulsorily acquire property for new lines. This is expensive because property prices are fucked here. So the only public transport in those dead zones is buses.
Building anything is also politically difficult. The previous government acquired houses for a road, then lost the election over it. The road wasn't built and squatters moved into the houses. Cost millions.
So some people are completely fucked without cars here and the government won't do anything.

LA's transport isn't THAT bad. A huge reason it doesn't progress enough is because not enough people use it. It's pretty decent (american wise) in recent years.

>tfw no metros in my country

>wanting a metro
Bus lines are cheaper mop
Metro is a money sink

>If there was a citywide pool of shared cars, you would have a car turn up within the minute to wherever you were.
Would not solve a single thing. Traffic jams are generated because the flow on traffic isn't constant 24/7. Cities get jammed when people get to work and when they get back from work which for large portions of the workforce happens at constant hours all-year long. Not because of car owners underutilizing their cars.

>So some people are completely fucked without cars here and the government won't do anything.
That's a problem that needs to be addressed and noone knows how because the damage caued by cager-culture and cager-centric infrastructure had been happening for the last 60 years and it wounded deep. Making the cars drive themselves is hardly the solution. It's just giving up and accepting the status quo.

And the obesity epidemics killing the west isn't helping either. Few decades ago people were okay walking 5 kilometres. Now it's beyond their physical capabilities.

Yeah, I know they wouldn't work here. But it was cool to use them when I was traveling abroad

nyc metro is actually pretty efficient and almost never late, the only problem is the people

God I hate the metrolink. I would love to take a job where I can commute by rail but all of the stops are in the middle of fucking nowhere. I was going to apply for a nice job in Irvine untill I realized that the Irvine Transit Center is well outside the city core so even if I took the train I would still have to drive or take a half hour buss ride. Whats the point of rail if I still have to drive to and from the transit itself?

And due to the nature of the metro, the first line would be from San José to some poor cantón like Alajuelita or >desamparados

A lot of people aren't riding it because it is really bad. As of late LA metro has been suffering a huge decrease in riders and while newspapers tend to write that the rise of uber/lyft is part of the problem they never seem to notice that people know that the Metro is unreliable as a method of transportation.

I regularly take the gold line. It's not perfect but it's a good start and is expanding. Of course right now it's not even remotely usefl for some people, but there's people in DTLA who neglect it completely

The gold line is a good line along with the expo line. And I do agree that people in DTLA do neglect the red, purple, and blue lines. But my biggest gripe is that the blue, purple, red, and green lines are so gross, tardy, and always breaking down or having some sort of issue.

>all of the stops are in the middle of fucking nowhere.
This. The Victorville stop leaves you stranded in the middle of a desert with no bus routes in sight

Because American PT planners outside of New York are fucking morons.

My city doesn't have a metro but currently in Seoul. It's pretty good and the coverage is excellent. But, I'm mad because the 1 line train this morning was 2 minutes late so I missed my intercity train. I have to transfer to a second train to get to my city instead of taking a direct train to get home now.

Uber is one person being your driver in that person's car for money, like a taxi that takes you directly to your destination. Sharing an Uber with total strangers, making the journey longer and more uncomfortable, potentially in your own car, is something a lot of people wouldn't find appealing at the moment.

Sharing taxis with strangers is already unappealing. Now imagine that bit it's your car you have to worry about them fucking up.

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Stockholm

It's honestly great 3/4 of the year. It's just extremely fucking expensive and as soon as the first snow comes in November everything gets fucked and all of sudden all the buses stops going.