Comment by petepete
2 days ago
Despite its name, only 45% of London Underground is underground. As I recall only 3 or 4 lines are entirely subterranean, most run on the surface once they are out of the centre.
2 days ago
Despite its name, only 45% of London Underground is underground. As I recall only 3 or 4 lines are entirely subterranean, most run on the surface once they are out of the centre.
Only 2 lines are entirely underground - Waterloo and city (literally two stops) and Victoria (the Victoria depot is above ground but all casement services are below ground)
Precisely because of the name, it shouldn't have been hard to notice that the Chicago "El" is elevated. The "Loop" is entirely above ground and gives downtown Chicago its primary identity.
edit: we do desperately need a circle line, or failing that, dedicated bus lanes imitating one. Instead we get less and less service every year since the year they decimated "owl" (night) service.
Imagine what London would be like with the majority of the lines in the centre being on elevated tracks instead of underground
A previously beautiful city, now ruined by train tracks everywhere?
I can see and hear the Overground from my kitchen window, I honestly think it makes the city more beautiful.
Paris has line 6 crossing it entirely and running right next to some very touristy places and it’s overall beautiful. Aerial lines don’t have to be eyesore.
You’re 140 years too late.
Tokyo has tons of above ground tracks and it’s fine. One big problem in american cities is that train tracks are built too high off the ground and aren’t human scale.
South of the Thames has a fair bit of elevated rail.
Even zone one does for the normal rail system, but I was imagining what it would be like with the deep lines elevated.
The first thing that sprang to mind was the movie Metropolis.
Also, Wuppertal.