>>881786>>882002>Germany also has very few really big cities, only 4 over 1 million inhabitants. On the other hand there are 35 cities between 200k and 1 million and 37 between 100k and 200k.Aww yis. Exactly the same happened in Helsinki as happened with places like say... Essen ja Bochum and probably some others: there's this one new fully seggregated heavy "metro" line, the opening line of a system that was supposedly be vast, but the cost and schedule overruns happened and people realize that the original plan would have been enormously expensive. The old tram network survives (was supposed to be rendered obsolete when the metro is "done"), but receives little love.
Case: the West extension of the first line was supposed to start in the 80s (before the schedule slips in the opening section weren't apparent, that is according to the original 60s visions) and we are only now constructing it. "The second line" from north to south was scheduled to about year 2000. Won't happen very soon, because we seem to be promply pulling the Greece...
Worst thing is, it's only million inhabitants in the metro area. I wonder what the 60s people were thinking. And yes, for the another Finnish foamer here: I too know about the "Castren plan".
