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interesting thread about the Munich S-Bahn; most of the things it does are done the same way in Hong Kong MTR, and are, from experience, wildly successful there

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Christof Spieler

@christofspieler

Jul 30, 2018

Another one of the things the Germans do well in transit: commuter rail (or actually regional rail.) The Munich S-Bahn carries 800,000 passengers a day (that’s LIRR and New Jersey Transit combined) in a metro area of 2.6 million (roughly the same as Pittsburgh, a tenth of NYC).

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@jeeger

Jul 30, 2018

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@whitequark

"it thkes you to the centre of things" yes, and *only* to the centre, if you want to go across, tough luck, you have to go through the centre. No way to avoid it, except by bus.

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basically this, I'm a bit sore about it as well; also that central line is a SPOF which is why they're building a second one which is pretty much guaranteed to cost three times the planned amount de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zweite_St