[{"_1":2,"_31":-5,"_32":-5},"loaderData",{"_3":4},"routes/__layout/tag.$name",{"_5":6,"_7":8},"tagName","cities","posts",[9],{"_10":11,"_12":13,"_14":15,"_16":17,"_18":19,"_20":21,"_22":23,"_24":25,"_26":-5,"_27":28,"_29":30},"id",927,"title","Mass Transport Rant","excerpt","I compare London, Paris, and NYC subways and find each gets some things right that the others get wrong. The fixes are obvious and cheap. Why won't they just do them? Hire me, Ken.","body","Why can no single metropolitan authority get the formula for mass transport right? My 3 candidates from personal experience:\r\n\r\n

London Underground
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Paris Metro\r\n
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NYC subway\r\n
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With the exception of London's tiny tunnels, all of the cons are fairly easy and inexpensive to overcome. So why don't they? And it's easy to bring in the pros as well: London should eliminate zones and introduce carriageless trains, and do something about the fog'o'crap that makes it impossible to see the other end of the platform if you're at one end. Paris should bring in digital signs and deal with that map of theirs, as well as introducing express trains. NYC should also bring in signs and clean up their stations: the quality of the stations makes NYC's subway *feel* like the worst subway, when it's actually the best of the bunch.\r\n

Okay, now you can hire me as a consultant. Come on, Ken.","updated",["D",1027794887000],"created",["D",1027794887000],"codename","mass_transport_rant","legacy_id","2563","thumbnailUrl","published",["D",1027794887000],"draft",false,"actionData","errors"]

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