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Posted by Fytton on Fri Oct 20 10:25:31 2006, in response to Re: Flatbush Avenue Brooklyn College extention, posted by MATHA531 on Fri Oct 20 09:09:59 2006. "And even a place like London in the much more recent past, added the Jubilee line...and Paris added I think it was Metro Line 14...in NY perhaps we'll have the SAS not even extending into the Bronx or Brooklyn"To fill out this picture: both the Victoria Line (circa 1968) and the Jubilee Line (circa 1979) were new lines across Central London, the London equivalent of Manhattan. Northeast of Kings Cross and south of Vauxhall, you could say the Victoria Line penetrates the eqiuivalent of the outer boroughs. The Jubilee Line didn't provide any new tube extension beyond the central area until 1999, when the Jubilee Line Extension to Stratford opened. Aside from those, the only genuinely new tube construction in the outer boroughs since WW2 were the Heathrow Airport extension of the Piccadilly Line, and Leytonstone-Newbury Park on the Central Line - and even that last one actually started being built before WW2. London's real success story of the last twenty years is the DLR, which is mostly outside the central area. However, the rejuvenation of the former docklands has been a major government priority. The rest of outer London has done much less well, and some districts remain entirely railless. Paris, on the other hand, has a good record of extending the ends of most of the old Metro lines beyond the city limits of Paris proper (again, the Manhattan equivalent) into their 'outer boroughs' - in some cases by just two or three stops, but further in other cases. Add in line 14 (which is in the central area) and the entire development of the RER to serve outer areas, and Paris has overall a very good post-WW2 extension record, most of it outside the central core. |
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