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Idiots. I like new metro lines in « région parisienne » but damn this is not it. Massive stations meant to win prizes and get attention of architects like Saint-Denis Pleyel are Not. It.

Meanwhile

They also fired people doing what they are going to do with digital services. Idiots.

Some national railways in Europe get higher ridership than others, but ALL of them have something to learn from others. Spain has lower ridership than France or Germany but builds infrastructure for cheap, to the point they have the biggest HSR network in Europe.

None of the cons are important

I am not convinced that elites hate him because he was poor and despised the consensus It’s because he’s truly terrible in a fundamental way

Alon Levy for special advisor to POTUS for infrastructure costs in a future administration

Les Etats-Unis lui ont finalement donné raison.

Elmo’s site is a cesspool but this floated onto my timeline I don’t follow the person 2/3 of responses blamed the unions, called out the cost creep for builders/developers, want to adopt global (Euro) standards instead

there are a lot of people who are guilty of contemptuous words towards members of the previous administration and who will go unpunished.

yes And tangentially we should switch to Vienna Convention signs and traffic rules!!