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Welcome to UrbanNews #35. In this episode –
00:00 – Intro
00:16 – El Insurgente commuter rail line launched in Mexico City
01:54 – Modernization of trolleybuses in Seattle, USA
02:32 – Metro extension in Wuhan, China
03:08 – Street renovation in Leipzig, Germany
05:04 – Hydrogen trams in Daejeon, South Korea
05:55 – Modernization of bicycle parking in Utrecht, Netherlands
06:57 – Metro extension in Ahmedabad, India
07:51 – Tram extension in Brussels, Belgium
08:44 – New landscape park in Shanghai, China
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Sources:
https://www.railwaygazette.com/passenger/el-insurgente-passenger-trains-reach-mexico-city/67329.article?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=Sendible&utm_campaign=RSS
https://news.hbtv.com.cn/p/4473249.html
Von Tröndlinring bis Nordplatz: Pfaffendorfer Straße wird 2025 saniert
Ab heute am Tröndlinring: LVB bauen Gleise, Straßenbahnen fahren Umleitung
https://www.transport-publiczny.pl/wiadomosci/innotrans-hyundai-pokazuje-wodorowy-tramwaj-84812.html
https://www.prorail.nl/nieuws/tijdelijke-sluiting-fietsenstalling-sijpesteijnkade
https://www.financialexpress.com/business/infrastructure-ahmedabad-gandhinagar-metro-phase-2-launch-today-know-route-stations-schedule-and-more-3612241/
https://www.railwaygazette.com/light-rail-and-tram/king-inaugurates-brussels-tram-extension/67443.article?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=Sendible&utm_campaign=RSS
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2024/sep/30/twin-hills-shanghai-nipple-mountains-multistorey-car-park
13 Comments
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What's the rationale of using hydrogen trams knowing that hydrogen is chiefly made from fossil fuels, with all the incurring inefficiencies?
Yay mexico! It's been a long time coming but it's a good project. Glad to see them investing in rail
longest metro in china !!
Hey, can I still submit the news articles the series to your Twitter or are you taking submissions via another method now?
When is the other mentioned metro in Brussels expected to be completed? The one running through the city centre tunnel?
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Would have been nice to talk about the high speed extension in China and the Pune metro
Great update. I love the more urbanist news about development. One thing you could add at the end of an info about city is the current state of the network, like mentioning the total length of the Wuhan metro.
You forgot to mention the plans to modernize and extend the Ružinov tram line in Bratislava
Two major updates for Indian Metro systems:
Hyderabad Metro finished the DPR for Phase 2, which would provide a metro connection to the international airport.
Pune Metro opened its underground section signing the completion of phase 1 and started works on two extensions of around 19kms in total
Maybe not the most exciting news, but in Barcelona they're building… A RAMP!!!
It will connect L3 and FGC (suburban rail) to L1 and Rodalies (commuter and regional rail) at Catalunya station (substituting the current stairs), so that it is finally fully PMR accessible.
Only 3 stations in the whole network (Verdaguer, Plaça de Sants and Urquinaona) remain that are not accessible or already have construction works going on.
The goal is to have the whole metro network to be accessible by the end of 2025. It will be one of (if not the first) old metro network (previous to the 70s-80s) to be fully accessible!
PD: I don't think there's any article about the ramp xd, but there are some about the accessibility of the network as a whole, although mostly in Catalan.
Why is passengers abbreviated as pax?