Ride the D!

[BrightShinyGirl]

The LA Metro is about to open a new subway extension!

 

[DeluxAuto]

 

[Wilson23]

When are they gonna bring back the redcars?

 

[BrightShinyGirl]

When are they gonna bring back the redcars?

The red cars are long gone, but the right-of-ways remain. A lot of the new light rail lines being built in LA follow the old red car routes. For example my local line that runs from Santa Monica to downtown follows a 100-year-old red car route. The D subway extension is of course brand new.

 

[Wilson23]

We can't even get light rail in Tampa -- the funding referenda always fail.

Subways, of course, are out of the question -- the water table is too high. Buildings in Florida rarely have basements.

 

[YDB95]

Melbourne is one of the few cities in the world where the trams never went away in the first place. Just one of many things I love about my adopted country.

 

[Wilson23]

Melbourne is one of the few cities in the world where the trams never went away in the first place. Just one of many things I love about my adopted country.

Aren't there still a lot of tram systems in Europe?

 

[nowisthetime]

That name is quite catchy!

 

[Wilson23]

That name is quite catchy!

What, "LA Metro"?