Wowie wow: Paris adding 120 miles of suburban track, four new lines, 68 new stations and strike-resistant driverless trains to its Metro. I love the NYC subway but we're definitely falling behind. edition.cnn.com/travel/paris...
The Grand Paris Express will add four lines, 68 stations and 200 kilometers of track to the French capital’s 120-year-old Metro system, providing vital suburban links – just not quite in time for ...
"Strike-resistant" is not a positive.
Strike-resistant driverless trains? Sounds scabby to me.
Driverless trains are not strike resistant because drivers are not the only safety critical jobs in rail networks. Also kinda ghoulish crowing about people losing the chance to have fair representation in employment.
"strike-resistant driverless" Yay, don't have to deal with those yucky people trying to make sure they've got meaningful jobs that pay well, with sane hours and respect any more! /s
Isn’t nyc’s subway a decaying ruin of filth, inefficiency, and stink?
Come on, Helen, New York is old and dense and unionized; how could Paris possibly compare.
Orly on the metro, not a private extension of the metro, is the dream!
Grand Paris is above all a development scheme for business and tech hubs that is massively criticised because it doesn’t build housing, will exacerbate the separation of the banlieue and is designed to bring more air traffic to Paris