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Lausanne has a new Metro
Inaugurated yesterday, this Metro is a state of the art engineering feat. Totally automatic, climbing a 12% gradient without rack or cable. 6 km long ~375 m altitude difference.
More than that, it has inspired a new burst of urbanism to make the city better: P&R facilities at Vennes where 2 motorways meet with the main road North to Berne; new low-cost housing by a station; new hi-tech research park at the last station, accent on bioengineering, with one of the world's advanced cancer research establishments 100 m away; city centre partially remodelled with de luxe shopping between two stations and escalators between the levels; green spaces and parks where the old funicular cut the lower part of the city in two, etc.
It goes into full service next month, 2 months ahead of schedule.
Along with the new waste-to-energy plant, the staid little old city of Lausanne is pulling itself up by its bootlaces into the 21st century.
More than that, it has inspired a new burst of urbanism to make the city better: P&R facilities at Vennes where 2 motorways meet with the main road North to Berne; new low-cost housing by a station; new hi-tech research park at the last station, accent on bioengineering, with one of the world's advanced cancer research establishments 100 m away; city centre partially remodelled with de luxe shopping between two stations and escalators between the levels; green spaces and parks where the old funicular cut the lower part of the city in two, etc.
It goes into full service next month, 2 months ahead of schedule.
Along with the new waste-to-energy plant, the staid little old city of Lausanne is pulling itself up by its bootlaces into the 21st century.
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