nice, but have you ever been in Baden Württemberg?
Easy to have high speed rail when a dictator makes all the decisions and doesn’t have to worry about political opposition or profitability. (Talking about China in case it wasn’t obvious.)
Hey now! That’s not fair.
North Korea and Vietnam have dictators, too.
make better agi prop, the US has the most gorgeous metro system in the world. Facts dont care about your feelings. (If you dont like brutalist architecture you probably wont like it and I’m sorry)Ahem, have you seen the Moscow subway?
In case anyone is wondering, that’s Komsomolskaya station, built in 1952. Later stations tended to not be so opulent.
Here’s a new station that’s just been built for ya
That’s not opulent, that’s just bad taste. The other one was absolutely beautiful.
Certainly better taste than anything your shithole has to offer.
None of the design elements work with each other, to start with. Then it’s like after the fact, some shmuck from the propaganda office told the architects to stick a stupid looking fighter jet in there. It’s like a weak man’s idea of a strong design.
I’ve never read a more sour comment in my life. Thanks for letting me know how much you’re seething and coping there.
Feels a little bougie if you ask me, but to each their own.
Funny you’d say that, because even though the first plans for it date back to the Russian Empire, it was the communists under Stalin who actually built it.
Yeah. DC has some very pretty metro stations. NYC has SO MANY stops in Manhattan it was silly when visiting.
Do you mean “agitprop”?
*New York City
Other metro systems look way nicer, looking through the images on a “American subway station” search
Talk about cherry picking lmao
There’s the Oculus stattion in NYC which is ok, but I hate the building it’s connected to. It’s one of only a handful of nice stations though. Half of the NYC metro looks like Silent Hill.
Memes can pick few a cherries, as a treat.
Moscow’s is nice too (and we know whom to thank for that).
why do actual communist planned economy nations have such great train stations (and aesthetics in general)
Car infrastructure is just, and I do mean this seriously, unimaginably expensive. If you do not priotize the car you have such a shitton of money left over you can just put like, chandeliers in your metro stations.
was the USSR very low on car infrastructure? I honestly don’t know so I’m asking (I know they had great train stations too)
Late stage, no, not so much, earlier stages? Yeah, absolutely, especially compared to like the west
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You forgot London Subway.
They didn’t. The UK isn’t cummunist enough
Russia (St.Petersburg)
Spain (Madrid Atocha)
SPB’s stations are some of the nicest I had the pleasure of being in. The focus back when it was built really was on the people.
St. Petersburg’s and Moscow’s old stations were built to show off superiority of communist state. That’s where you can see lots of polished stone, sculptures, giant golden light fixtures, stained glass, etc. Focus was not on the people. Then starting around 1970s the stations were built with much more utilitarian design. Modern stations built in Moscow in last decade or so look very nice though.
NYC subway is just gross. I guess they are seriously underfunded to afford proper cleaning and renovation
Having worked for the MTA on the subway system years back, I invite you all to remember that we built one of the very first subway systems in the world, definitely first in scale, knowing we’d make mistakes in implementation, along with a lot of successful ideas.
Everyone else learns from our mistakes, we gladly hosted the engineering team from Los Angeles and Bangkok when they wanted to share notes with us.
With almost 200miles/320km of public tracks, this is easily the most successful mass transit system internationally. "BuT gWaFiTi BaD :( "
Give it a rest, posers.
Nope, first was UK with London Underground in 1863 (has 250 miles of track now) and 5th was USA is 1897.
In all of Vietnam there are currently two active metro lines, one of which is only partially complete.
I hope it improves. Many lines are under construction but all of the projects have been plagued by delays for years.
But why would you include this as an example here?
Bad meme, id you want to dunk on the US find a better angle than obvious propaganda.
Not mine ;)
The only way to truly experience the Montreal’s subway is through the smell.
The USA are not America
Well, if you are going to feel better I can post a picture of the subway in the Cartel of Medellin 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Doesn’t work with your title, mate
Oh lookie, dictatorshp propaganda.
