Dublin metro was first planned in the 1980s. A definitive plan was finalized last year, and the construction was supposed to start next year, bur at the last possible moment a group of residents near one of the planned terminuses blocked it in court because the construction would “cause them undue stress”. So, if we’re lucky, the metro construction will begin within 50 years of the original plan. Ireland is thus remaining one of the very few European countries with sizable population, without a metro. Despite running such huge budget surpluses that we sometimes refuse to collect taxes from the multinationals.
In Boston, I stayed close to Alewife. The red line was decent to get me to the city centre, and I had two good bus connections to Lexington where I also had some business to attend to.
Oh wow. AFAIK Boston’s is the oldest one in North America, more than a century old now.
Yeah, the red line is, IMO, Boston’s best line. But, that was also partially based on where I mostly travelled. But, I imagine the red line probably receives a bit more attention than the other lines because it’s the line that serves Harvard and MIT.
Dublin metro was first planned in the 1980s. A definitive plan was finalized last year, and the construction was supposed to start next year, bur at the last possible moment a group of residents near one of the planned terminuses blocked it in court because the construction would “cause them undue stress”. So, if we’re lucky, the metro construction will begin within 50 years of the original plan. Ireland is thus remaining one of the very few European countries with sizable population, without a metro. Despite running such huge budget surpluses that we sometimes refuse to collect taxes from the multinationals.
In Boston, I stayed close to Alewife. The red line was decent to get me to the city centre, and I had two good bus connections to Lexington where I also had some business to attend to.
Oh wow. AFAIK Boston’s is the oldest one in North America, more than a century old now.
Yeah, the red line is, IMO, Boston’s best line. But, that was also partially based on where I mostly travelled. But, I imagine the red line probably receives a bit more attention than the other lines because it’s the line that serves Harvard and MIT.