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This is how you build a subway

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  • 24-04-2017 9:22am
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    markpb
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    LA Metro & Metrolink from 1999 to 2026. It's pretty impressive stuff but, for me, the most amazing part is that all of the recent projects have been funded because the local taxpayers voted to pay extra sales tax for transport projects.

    For those of you without flash, they opened their first line in 1990. Screenshots of that and what they have today are attached.


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    n97 mini
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    markpb wrote: »
    It's pretty impressive stuff but, for me, the most amazing part is that all of the recent projects have been funded because the local taxpayers voted to pay extra sales tax for transport projects.

    It's quite common in the US. Sales tax is low anyway and it all stays local.


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    monument
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    markpb wrote: »
    LA Metro & Metrolink from 1999 to 2026. It's pretty impressive stuff but, for me, the most amazing part is that all of the recent projects have been funded because the local taxpayers voted to pay extra sales tax for transport projects.

    For those of you without flash, they opened their first line in 1990. Screenshots of that and what they have today are attached.

    That's now out of date. The Expo Line now goes all the way to Santa Monica! Progress all the time in LA.

    See the latest maps at: https://www.metro.net/riding/maps/


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    schemingbohemia
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    Wasn't the first line a white elephant for a number of years with very little use. Was one of the Die Hard films filmed on it?

    It's a great success story but took courage by politicians to persevere with it.


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    Roadhawk
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    I really feel a good underground system in Dublin would do more for the city than any other transportation project. I'm sure it would take a while to build but as the saying goes...Rome wasn't built in a day.


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    tomfoolery60
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    schemingbohemia wrote: »
    Wasn't the first line a white elephant for a number of years with very little use. Was one of the Die Hard films filmed on it?

    It's a great success story but took courage by politicians to persevere with it.


    I don't think they had a choice as they have a strictly ring fenced pool of $$$ for only one purpose!


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