The disestablishment of the Ministry of Transport’s work on the Auckland Light Rail project will likely cost millions of dollars spent over six months and
Terrible both in scraping the project and how nothing has been done for a quarter billion
Back then Belgrade was guessed at being the largest without an underground, but they note small cities like Lausanne, 130k center, but including wider population 320k were getting a subway. Or Rennes which had a wider population of 550k at the time and had a subway system. Now, they’re not digging on a volcanic field so perhaps it was easy to do, but in terms of Europe, 1.6m without an underground system of some kind is a slight aberration.
Of course, there’s cities in Asia where there’s 10+ million without an underground either so on pure population its not unusual at all :)
This is way out of date but its talking about cities in Europe that both have, and don’t have underground systems.
https://www.skyscrapercity.com/threads/misc-largest-cities-without-metro-subway-and-smallest-cities-with-it.404033/
Back then Belgrade was guessed at being the largest without an underground, but they note small cities like Lausanne, 130k center, but including wider population 320k were getting a subway. Or Rennes which had a wider population of 550k at the time and had a subway system. Now, they’re not digging on a volcanic field so perhaps it was easy to do, but in terms of Europe, 1.6m without an underground system of some kind is a slight aberration.
Of course, there’s cities in Asia where there’s 10+ million without an underground either so on pure population its not unusual at all :)