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Originally Posted by aleske
In France, the situation is quite similar than other European cities : there is urban sprawl, it's much limited than in America, but it's still big enough for causing significant parts of population to be away from attractive bus or tramway lanes. And in this point I've the feeling that northern countries make more doing than us.
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Thanks the the informative post. That was really helpful to know. The picture that is emerging is that while Swedish/French and Danish cities started out with denser cities, the sprawl emerging now is typical of North America and is supportive of cars and difficult to use pub transit to access the new burbs. Does this seem fair?
Actually, Canadian cities Montreal Toronto and Vancouver are doing a good job of building added commuter capacity with new commuter rail lines following the sprawl out into the far out burbs. Am I correct that this is not happening in Europe?
Other than bigger faster and better high-speed rail services in Europe, is there new inter-city train service being developed or are the systems the same as the routes the same as they were years ago?