Interesting...
Opened in 1896, it is the third oldest subway system in the world after the London Underground and the Budapest Metro... It remains one of only two underground railways in the UK outside London, ...The tracks have the unusual narrow gauge of four feet (1.22 m), and the tunnel diameter of 11 feet (3.35 m) is considerably smaller than on the London Underground. It is one of the few long-lived metro systems that have never expanded from its original route,
That makes me think, since I will be moving to Aberdeen in a couple of weeks, that will be the first town in Britain I then will have lived, that does not have Underground.... It will be strange.
Opened in 1896, it is the third oldest subway system in the world after the London Underground and the Budapest Metro
When I went to school in then West Germany, I shocked my French teacher with a correction when she got to speaking about the Paris Metro (started in 1900) as "the world's second". (It was the fourth.) *Lunatic*, n. One whose delusions are out of fashion.
The city I grew up in opened up its first light rail line a few years ago. Ridership has exceeded expectations by quite a margin. There are plans in the works for another line to connect the downtowns of Minneapolis and St Paul (downtowns are 12 miles apart, they are both large-ish American cities that happened to grow adjacent to each other). My guess is that it'll be up and running in 5 years or so.
you are the media you consume.
