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Of course it's far from perfect. It's an ancient, organically grown city that contains roughly the same number of people as the entire country of Switzerland.
by kijin 7y ago
Of course it's far from perfect. It's an ancient, organically grown city that contains roughly the same number of people as the entire country of Switzerland.
Instead of romancitizing about European cities that are 1/20 of their size, I wish Londoners and New Yorkers would look to China and Japan for better examples. Those guys know how to build and maintain 21st century infrastructure for millions.
- Symbiote 7y agoTransport For London itself doesn't look to small cities. They even offer consulting to large cities (Hong Kong, Sydney, Boston) to share their experience. https://tfl.gov.uk/info-for/business-and-commercial/commercial-consulting https://tfl.gov.uk/info-for/business-and-commercial/commerci...
- simongray 7y ago> Those guys know how to build and maintain 21st century infrastructure for millions. Maybe Japan? Haven't visited. But China has lots of terrible city planning and they are way too into cars. I lived in Beijing for 2 years and Beijing traffic is just the worse. Beijing is also not a very good city to be a pedestrian in, as every major street typically has 12-16 lanes and waiting at intersections takes forever. It feels like walking along a motorway. Finding shortcuts throughs the alleyways of a city block is also really hard as many of them are gated. Same goes for any major Chinese city really, except for the ones with surviving colonial city centres like Shanghai. The metro is pretty good, but definitely not pleasant to use during rush hour, and changing lines usually entails a lot of walking around underground tunnels.