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The Uber atricle is … interesting, especially for the US-viewpoints.
[ I was particularly taken by the idea that people who use public transport are “commies” – has anyone told The City’s bankers that yet? ]
@GREG
It’s another version of the car-lobby’s standard fayre, such as “A man who, beyond the age of 26, finds himself on a bus can count himself as a failure.”
apocryphally attributed to the Lady from Grantham.
[Rest snipped as off topic. LBM]
For Paris all-night service, seems odd that they didn’t go for line 4, which is the second busiest line after Line 1. Instead they went for line 5 as the primary N-S line. I guess Line 5 hits up more nightlife type areas than line 4?
Line 4 is being resignalled and refurbished for automatic operation. Otherwise I assume they would have chosen it