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Re: The MTA's Misplaced Priorities |
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Posted by Fytton on Wed Mar 14 11:11:19 2012, in response to Re: The MTA's Misplaced Priorities, posted by MATHA531 on Tue Mar 13 15:46:32 2012. Paris had two advantages: it is a compact city, and the Metro was essentially designed 'all of a piece' rather than being built by a number of competing companies. However, while NYC and London each have large populations (about 8 million in each case) under a single metropolitan government, the City of Paris is just the small area inside the Peripherique highway, and it within this area that the 'station within half a kilometre of every house' rule applies. The 'banlieu' of other boroughs outside the city limits of Paris have the RER and other SNCF suburban rail services, which are far less intensive.Although the list provided of NYC areas unserved by the subway is accurate, in fact the proportion of the NYC population served by the subway is quite high (over 75%, I'd guess, given that some of the unserved parts of Queens are of relatively low population density). The proportion of the Greater Paris population well served by rail rapid transit (Metro + RER) may well be little higher. As for London, the Tube probably serves little more than half the Greater London population well - which is why other rail systens have been provided in recent decades, such as the Docklands Light Railway, the Overground, the Tramlink, Thameslink, forthcoming CrossRail, and some national rail lines now provided with metro-level service frequencies. One important point about Paris and London - and other European cities - is that ticketing systems allow the use of all rail rapid transit within the metropolitan area seamlessly. The fact suburban rail (MNCR and LIRR) have different fare structures despite belonging to the same MTA hinders people from using what might be their most efficient means of getting from A to B, in some cases. |
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