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Originally Posted by The North One
And I've never seen a streetcar that long before.
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This thing is yet sort of common in France's metro areas well below a million inhabitants.
It's kinda provincial, really.
Bordeaux's over a million. Light rail is too short, it's capacity's too weak over there. Those fed up with these light-rail vehicles overcrowded on a random weekday use buses as a trick...
They need something like some underground commuter trains going through the old core; like an actual subway/RER with bigger trains running through tunnels dug in the subsoil.
I know Lyon, Marseille and Toulouse have a bit of something more efficient like this already, but it feels ridiculously tiny to someone born and raised in Paris.
Never went to Lille myself (always skipped it for Belgium and the Netherlands), but I think they started something more serious too.
Frankly, the whole nation should be paying for Nice and Bordeaux to start developing the same.