www.channelnewsasia.com 'Finally, we made it!': Ho Chi Minh City celebrates first metro
The US$1.7 billion line runs almost 20km from the city centre.
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Public Transport @slrpnk.net MicrowavedTea @infosec.pub Metro in Thessaloniki, Greece
Some context here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thessaloniki_Metro
This seems to have flown under the radar a bit but it's a similar case to the metro project in Ho Chi Minh. It took an eternity to finish with the first hole being dug in 1989 and it finally opened to the public last month. It had become kind of a meme due to all the delays and changing of hands among now-bankrupt companies and with every government promising to open it (it's had at least two opening ceremonies years apart). Now a month later it's still having issues and is really small, mostly serving the center but it's the first driverless metro in Greece with modern stations and also featuring a museum so it's promising.
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www.thestar.com.my Shanghai metro line suspends services after falling crane damages tracksServices were suspended on a Shanghai metro line on Sunday after its tracks were damaged by a falling crane, according to local authorities.
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The incident happened at about 8 a.m. when a crawler crane collapsed onto the tracks of the No. 11 metro line.
Passengers in the train were soon evacuated, with no casualties reported.
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www.newsweek.com More Americans are taking the train than everIn December, Amtrak surpassed its highest-ever ridership figures in a fiscal year, with 32.8 million passengers.
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Public Transport @slrpnk.net hono4kami @slrpnk.net Amtrak has set an all-time ridership record in Fiscal Year 2024 (FY24), welcoming 32.8 million rail passengers
railway-news.com Amtrak Breaks All-Time Ridership Record in 2024Amtrak has set an all-time ridership record in Fiscal Year 2024 (FY24), welcoming 32.8 million rail passengers.
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www.euronews.com High-speed Paris-Berlin daily train service debutsThe route is the first directly linking the two capitals' city centres.
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Public Transport @slrpnk.net threelonmusketeers @sh.itjust.works 
electrek.co These cities rank highest in the world for urban mobilityWalkability, electrified transport, free public EV charging – cities earning the top spot in urban mobility include San Francisco and Paris.
San Francisco takes the top spot, for the second year since 2022, followed by Paris, Singapore, Munich, and Amsterdam.
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www.japantimes.co.jp Hokuriku Shinkansen extension to come with ballooning costsThree options were shown for the bullet train line extension, but all were forecast to cost more than initial estimates.
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Public Transport @slrpnk.net hono4kami @slrpnk.net Bundaran HI Astra bus stop in a rainy day, Jakarta, Indonesia (2022)
Photo taken by me
This bus stop is one of the major stops in Transjakarta network--arguably the biggest BRT (bus rapid transit) in the world.
On the top of the bus stop there's a commercial area and a viewing deck, where you can see amazing view of Selamat Datang Monument, visible in the photo.
To access the viewing deck and the commerce area, you need to go through the ticket gate. This way you can familiarize and attracts people to use Transjakarta.
If you didn't know, Jakarta is the most populated province in the most populated island in the earth, Java Island. This fact, combined with the very lack of public transportation, making it has one of the worst car traffic in the world. So much so that Indonesia's government decided to move its capital to Nusantara, Borneo Island, to reduce centralization on Java Island.
That doesn't make it Jakarta stop being developed, many people get this part wrong.
Just last year, 2023, Jakarta got another addition of public transport
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en.tempo.co Transjakarta Eyes All-Electric Buses by 2030Jakarta-owned bus operator PT Transportation Jakarta (Transjakarta) shares optimism about replacing its entire fleet with electric buses by 2030.
September 11, 2023
Transjakarta is eyeing to operate 50 percent electric buses by 2027.
Jakarta Acting Governor Heru Budi Hartono previously set a target of adding 400 electric buses by 2025. In 2023, at least 190 more electric buses will be in operation to improve the city's air quality, bringing the total to 220.
Apart from Transjakarta electric buses, the city administration is also keen to open more Public Electric Vehicle Charging Stations (SPKLU) in South Jakarta and Central Jakarta as these two areas have a lot of offices, schools, and other activity centers.
This is actually pretty old news. The latest news is that TransJakarta actually just added 200 units of EV buses (I can't find any news about this from English publication sadly) [1]. Making the total EV buses in operation 300 units.
As a context, there are two kinds of TransJakarta buses: high-deck/BRT and low-deck/non-BRT. Previously, TransJakarta added low-deck buses in Jakarta back in 2022. This year they are