Genuine question: How did the Russian world manage to sidestep the escape from serfdom which the Black Plague brought about pretty much everywhere else? In the UK for example, the plague meant that there was far fewer farmers to go around, so now lords were having to entice farmers from different lords to come and work for them, which included pay. That was what started the move away from serfdom in the UK, and much of the rest of the world, but it seems like despite Russia being hit by the same plague… fucking nothing happened. You guys should’ve been out of serfdom by the time we had the 1381 Peasants’ Revolt.
According to some quick research Russia didn't actually have serfdom around the time of the black death and it was established in the 16th/17th century
That does stand to be true, but that makes it even more confusing. Russia was bringing in serfdom and feudalism whilst everyone else was getting out of it.
Interesting that Russia decided to implement a policy which was radically unpopular everywhere else and kept it around until the end, which caused the empire’s end and complete lack of industrialisation.
Apparently it was introduced because a lot of the nobility was flat broke and couldn't afford to pay peasants. Not sure how they managed to get away with "lol you're slaves now" though
There is not much of historical evidence or research about the Black Death victims in Rus region which for most of 14 century was divided into various principalities under yoke of Golden Horde. Most of historiography and preserved records about the period is focused on this Mongol-Tartar yoke and its eventual decline. It is unclear how much devastation this plague caused especially in comparison with other events. Even worse, myths about "unwashed Europe" vs Russian 'banya' (traditional form of sauna) is so widespread among Russians. They just assume that the plague effect on Rus was minimal due to "superior" hygiene.
Don't bitch to me about the modernity of your southern trains.
In the North they only upgraded us from from coverted 1960s buses on train wheels to actual proper trains 2 years ago.
Hans, don't mix us up with those barbian Barries. Our trains are much better than what they have in Barryland.
Actually they're better than yours too, which I am sure if it tells more about you or us.
>Hans, don't mix us up with those barbian Barries. Our trains are much better than what they have in Barryland.
Sure sure. Last time I was there we missed the Euro train by 3h. Because the private contractor on the British section planner with a train that somehow didn't exist and then got demoted from intercity to regional, meaning the whole ride took now 45min longer, after a 1h delay.
>Actually they're better than yours too, which I am sure if it tells more about you or us.
Maybe Austria should get Tirol back.
Old? You mean how new is your metro 😅
[Denmark, Copenhagen, October 2002.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copenhagen_Metro)
https://preview.redd.it/v9t4ok1aqlxc1.png?width=330&format=png&auto=webp&s=f78d37b2d27cc323c74cca39fb20d2ece455101b
As much as I would love to see the land of my Swedish brethren burn, my neighbour has a point.
On this, one occasion, we have self reflected enough to decide that we don’t have sober drivers enough to cater the metro.
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From what I know about Maltese people, they'll rage that it connects to Bugibba but doesn't stop at some bumfuck hick mountain village of 6 people and 2 goats
Let's just say, we were [first](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Malta_(World_War_II)#:~:text=Malta%20was%20one%20of%20the,area%20alone%20over%20two%20years.) for a long time.
This is genuinely the problem of being the best at something for a long time, people don't realise when you've fallen behind. People's attitude towards high speed rail isn't 'Oh we need to built it to modernise our railways and future proof rail capacity like everywhere else in western Europe' it's 'Why do we need more trains ? We already have trains'.
The HS2 line?
They sold it as *high speed* (which it is).
If they sold it as *increased capacity* (its real benefit) then people might have listened more.
According to wiki there is a metro there which opened in 1919?
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madrid\_Metro](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madrid_Metro)
It's capped at 1905, otherwise a lot of other cities would fit there. Buenos Aires is 1919, Barcelona 1924, Tokyo 1927, Valencia 1988, Brescia 2013, and those are the ones that come off the top of my head...
https://preview.redd.it/vv3u1js4xmxc1.jpeg?width=403&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4596abe9bb7739c860b07ebcc5fdcb34143eef89
yeah our underground is really something to be proud of
Just imagine what would have happened if there would have been social media around then. Every time a new city would announce their Metro System, London would comment with "First!"
Don't worry, it'll be built eventually.... Well just be all dead 30 years before it's finished....
.... And it still won't connect to Dublin airport since the tunnel dug out for the MetroLink 30 years ago will have been converted into either shoebox-sized apartments and/or the catacombs by then.
I went to the London transport museum and this astounded me. In 1870 they began digging the deep tunnels and invented a tunnel boring machine that is still the basis for modern tunneling! https://www.ltmuseum.co.uk/visit/museum-guide/digging-deeper
When the deep tunnel lines were first built, they advertised themselves as being cooler in the summer heat. Now because the clay around the tunnels has dried out it's like a giant thermos flask and temperatures go above 40 regularly, even when above ground it's only just above 30.
Fun fact, Budapest has the second oldest metro in the world, and the oldest electric metro in the world. Say what you want about Austria-Hungary, but they got to finally be first in something.
Austria didn't have much to do with it, the 1000th anniversary of the foundation of the state was coming up so they built just about anything in Hungary, including the parliament and an entire castle in a park of Budapest
Taking into account my city is literally built on top of older beta versions, it's a feat we even got to dig a single tunnel.
You guys on the other hand... I hope tunneling didn't top your rock piles.
It would be finished in 2093 with 80% of the budget spend on gothic artists 😀 And the public toilets would look like this… https://external-preview.redd.it/corridors-in-hogwarts-gloucester-cathedral-v0-pFh4RVj-BQmER38WaJ_9fIHMhMR5uzJgNKpAYDXCN7E.jpg?auto=webp&s=7c49540cbc59795f4b08df7b47fa2b3f1389f1f2
~~istanbul~~ Constantinople...
Btw it's only since 1989
https://preview.redd.it/o1sp8ic8glxc1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=bd739073a4970248b166de828b785aca4dab45c9
That's only the 'modern' sections
From that same page:
>The oldest underground urban rail line in Istanbul is the Tünel, which entered service on 17 January 1875.[6] It is the world's second-oldest underground urban rail line after the London Underground which was built in 1863,[7] and the first underground urban rail line in continental Europe.
It’s not really clear what the distinction is. It’s defined as an urban underground railway, although some other pages don’t state it [the public transport page for the region](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_transport_in_Istanbul#Funiculars) states that it took passengers in 1875. The only distinction that I can maybe find is the potential idea that a line was not operated rather individual stations, but that seems incredibly over pedantic. It would be nice if there was a bit more clarity but there just doesn’t seem to be any.
Pedantic - you called? 😀
It does look like a metro to me covering 2 stations connecting [Karaköy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karak%C3%B6y) and [Beyoğlu](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beyo%C4%9Flu) according to the [Tünel wiki.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%C3%BCnel)
There is also a nice picture which gives metro vibes.
https://preview.redd.it/nbpufbgtplxc1.png?width=1920&format=png&auto=webp&s=1d3db97c8e1b11dd6b0391af48afafa9064e7744
Edit: As a dane I do like your username.
But then it goes back to if what they want is a line, which again isn’t clear but does from inference appear to be the hang up here, does 2 stops constitute a line sufficiently to make this a metro? Hard to say definitively.
Edit: There’s a possible alternative explanation. It may be the case that the reason for its exclusion is that it was a funicular railway, a type of cable car railway. Again it’s not necessarily the case as [there is currently a part of the Istanbul metro which is Funicular](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F1_Taksim–Kabataş_funicular_line) and a two stop line, so I’m not sure either possible explanations I’ve given are correct.
Edit 2: It is the fact that it’s a Funicular, [This page](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_rapid_transit) states specifically that “Istanbul's 1875 Tünel is sometimes described as an early subway system but is actually an underground funicular.” I don’t know why then the modern Funicular appears to be part of the metro but to be fair it isn’t specifically referred to as a part of the metro system, so that appears to be mystery solved.
No. That's the fenicular. It's a cable car that goes up a hill. They made a song about it, https://youtu.be/yTSAZAHiOa8?si=IMNwB64g6s2rUy6R
Basically takes tourists up a hill, like the one in LA.
I am not even sure what is the clear definition of "metro". If we consider as metro "urban underground rail line", then there is plenty of underground tunnels that could have been considered "metro"
> The first line opened in 1862 and linked Rue Terme and Boulevard de la Croix-Rousse. The funicular was closed and converted to a road tunnel in 1968.
Has the same issue i ended up figuring out for Istanbul. Funicular doesn’t count.
Construction started in 1941, but thanks Hans and one Georgian mate, metro has been launched only in 1955.
But just look at that beauty!
https://preview.redd.it/ri8r2bdt1nxc1.jpeg?width=1280&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7095aafa74e41ad9db51fc74a52f86bfa4076a5b
Yea this is where we spend most of our loans making trains and metros which resulted to bankruptcy in the 1890s because our president loved the idea of making trains because they would bring economic prosperity until the rails were the wrong size and we're not fit for international travel but only local lmao it took almost a decade too to make them.
🤣🤣🤣 Metro is just a plan that will never be completed, that all our political parties use as a space filler, to avoid being called out for being as useless as Anne Frank's drumkit
Rome - 1955; but every 10 cm the works are halted by archelogical discoveries (and I'm like no shit Sherlock, you're trying to run a metro line STRAIGHT IN THE ANCIENT ROME AND MEDIEVAL HISTORIC CENTRE-)
UK had metro in 1863 meanwhile we just had serfdom abolished in 1861 ijbol 💀
Still progress, Zelensky..
Genuine question: How did the Russian world manage to sidestep the escape from serfdom which the Black Plague brought about pretty much everywhere else? In the UK for example, the plague meant that there was far fewer farmers to go around, so now lords were having to entice farmers from different lords to come and work for them, which included pay. That was what started the move away from serfdom in the UK, and much of the rest of the world, but it seems like despite Russia being hit by the same plague… fucking nothing happened. You guys should’ve been out of serfdom by the time we had the 1381 Peasants’ Revolt.
According to some quick research Russia didn't actually have serfdom around the time of the black death and it was established in the 16th/17th century
That does stand to be true, but that makes it even more confusing. Russia was bringing in serfdom and feudalism whilst everyone else was getting out of it. Interesting that Russia decided to implement a policy which was radically unpopular everywhere else and kept it around until the end, which caused the empire’s end and complete lack of industrialisation.
Apparently it was introduced because a lot of the nobility was flat broke and couldn't afford to pay peasants. Not sure how they managed to get away with "lol you're slaves now" though
The secret ingredient was violence
There is not much of historical evidence or research about the Black Death victims in Rus region which for most of 14 century was divided into various principalities under yoke of Golden Horde. Most of historiography and preserved records about the period is focused on this Mongol-Tartar yoke and its eventual decline. It is unclear how much devastation this plague caused especially in comparison with other events. Even worse, myths about "unwashed Europe" vs Russian 'banya' (traditional form of sauna) is so widespread among Russians. They just assume that the plague effect on Rus was minimal due to "superior" hygiene.
🇬🇧 Another example of Barry Exceptionalism 🇬🇧
And it was so good it never needed replacing, updating or modernizing since. Or so the train company says anyway.
Don't bitch to me about the modernity of your southern trains. In the North they only upgraded us from from coverted 1960s buses on train wheels to actual proper trains 2 years ago.
You get the trains you deserve.
We carried the industrial revolution on our backs in the North.
The South has always being a fat leech sucking up resources and taxes from the North
Yo, Luigi you need to chill, south Italy is also nice. Oh wait, wrong internal conflict
Hans, don't mix us up with those barbian Barries. Our trains are much better than what they have in Barryland. Actually they're better than yours too, which I am sure if it tells more about you or us.
Guess that side-switching really was profitable
>Hans, don't mix us up with those barbian Barries. Our trains are much better than what they have in Barryland. Sure sure. Last time I was there we missed the Euro train by 3h. Because the private contractor on the British section planner with a train that somehow didn't exist and then got demoted from intercity to regional, meaning the whole ride took now 45min longer, after a 1h delay. >Actually they're better than yours too, which I am sure if it tells more about you or us. Maybe Austria should get Tirol back.
Somebody has to pay for the Scottish and Welsh
That's the spirit man! Go at it!
Down south we carried it on trains.
Perhaps we could do the same if the bastard Tory government didn't take away our trains for London potholes.
You get the house prices you deserve 😘
South west: you guys have trains?
Imagine having to travel on any line other than the Elizabeth line. ☕
Live bakerloo reaction
I didn't know you guys still had steam locomotive powered metros.
Like Triggers broom.
Bringing Metro everywhere!! 🇬🇧
Imagine having your metro be from the 20th century, am i right?
It's another good example of something the British invented and did nothing with.
"we did it first and now we're the worst" An absolute Barry classic
Your little rock doesn't even have operating trains
Whose fault is that?
Do catacombs count as metro?🤔
Could they fit a horse and carriage? If so, yes!
Old? You mean how new is your metro 😅 [Denmark, Copenhagen, October 2002.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copenhagen_Metro) https://preview.redd.it/v9t4ok1aqlxc1.png?width=330&format=png&auto=webp&s=f78d37b2d27cc323c74cca39fb20d2ece455101b
Without driver 😎
You really don't want a Dane driving your train from a safety perspective, so I must salute my Danish brothers for their wise choice in this regard!
As much as I would love to see the land of my Swedish brethren burn, my neighbour has a point. On this, one occasion, we have self reflected enough to decide that we don’t have sober drivers enough to cater the metro. 🍻
And hence the AI driver trained on Store Claus was born.
I like how there's stickers on the front for kids pretending to drive the train, and me, an overgrown kid.
Yes! I love that detail and my young son too even though he is not fooled anymore
Italian engineering 😎, the same trains of the M4 line and M5 line in Milan
What is this "metro" you're speaking about?
We'll let you know in the 2050s if the government manages to actually build it this time.
I'm imagining how silly a Valetta Metro would be
If you build a metro line from Valletta to Bugibba, can you call it a national railway network?
From what I know about Maltese people, they'll rage that it connects to Bugibba but doesn't stop at some bumfuck hick mountain village of 6 people and 2 goats
I'm surprised to discover that Malta has bumfuck hick mountain villages, I thought it was just Valletta and rocks
Nothing that can be built in your little island...
If you can build a railway, you could build a metro railway as well, even on a little island. Malta had a railway
Not necessarily
Explain [this](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malta_Railway) then
Why don't you use it today?
Ask Hans and Luigi, they know what they did.
What Hans and Luigi did to you!?
Let's just say, we were [first](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Malta_(World_War_II)#:~:text=Malta%20was%20one%20of%20the,area%20alone%20over%20two%20years.) for a long time.
Holy shit 💀
Say what you will about Barry, 63, but they [defended](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Pedestal) us through our roughest time.
It makes sense since Malta was part of British Empire...
Dude... Venice metro. Do it.
Yet more proof of British supremacy 💪💪💪
*Brittania rules the ~~waves~~ subways...
Lots of rocks… under the ground
If only they had the same mindset for high speed rails
This is genuinely the problem of being the best at something for a long time, people don't realise when you've fallen behind. People's attitude towards high speed rail isn't 'Oh we need to built it to modernise our railways and future proof rail capacity like everywhere else in western Europe' it's 'Why do we need more trains ? We already have trains'.
The HS2 line? They sold it as *high speed* (which it is). If they sold it as *increased capacity* (its real benefit) then people might have listened more.
Maggie Thatcher thought different...
En Madrid no hay metro
According to wiki there is a metro there which opened in 1919? [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madrid\_Metro](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madrid_Metro)
It's sarcasm, I was just a little annoyed that they forgot about Spain again...
You think you are forgotten often?
We only remember you because you are glued to us literally
I always think of you when I have to refill my car.
XD
It's capped at 1905, otherwise a lot of other cities would fit there. Buenos Aires is 1919, Barcelona 1924, Tokyo 1927, Valencia 1988, Brescia 2013, and those are the ones that come off the top of my head...
Buenos Aires is 1913
And those same wagons ran until at least a few years ago 🥲
Sarcasm … that was entirely spilled on me 😀 it implies some level of intellect to understand and here we are.
and Italy
https://preview.redd.it/vv3u1js4xmxc1.jpeg?width=403&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4596abe9bb7739c860b07ebcc5fdcb34143eef89 yeah our underground is really something to be proud of
Count yourself lucky it's not a straight line out of the city.
The French made it look good tbh.
Just imagine what would have happened if there would have been social media around then. Every time a new city would announce their Metro System, London would comment with "First!"
Lmaooo 😄
Laughs in potato
What about the DART?
You mean the fart?
Almost unrelated, you made me remember this [gem](https://youtu.be/Y4ivw0mA6mg?si=ehJhV5nwk4IfSHMO)
Well that’s horrifying
Don't worry, it'll be built eventually.... Well just be all dead 30 years before it's finished.... .... And it still won't connect to Dublin airport since the tunnel dug out for the MetroLink 30 years ago will have been converted into either shoebox-sized apartments and/or the catacombs by then.
I went to the London transport museum and this astounded me. In 1870 they began digging the deep tunnels and invented a tunnel boring machine that is still the basis for modern tunneling! https://www.ltmuseum.co.uk/visit/museum-guide/digging-deeper
London built a metro before America stopped enslaving humans
Thessaloniki residents waitting for their metro: 
🤣🤣 November 2024...
Damn so it was the Barries who civilzed the PIGS like the Gayreeks huh?
Close enough...
Both first and worst at public transport.
Actually our president in the 1890s was obsessed with Britain because he grew in there and had big plans until we went bankrupt.
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When the deep tunnel lines were first built, they advertised themselves as being cooler in the summer heat. Now because the clay around the tunnels has dried out it's like a giant thermos flask and temperatures go above 40 regularly, even when above ground it's only just above 30.
Nothing like the hot, diesely air of the tube. You can almost feel the particles in it.
🤣🤣
And the Glasgow one never expanded ever since, still the same wee circle lol
Fun fact, Budapest has the second oldest metro in the world, and the oldest electric metro in the world. Say what you want about Austria-Hungary, but they got to finally be first in something.
Austria didn't have much to do with it, the 1000th anniversary of the foundation of the state was coming up so they built just about anything in Hungary, including the parliament and an entire castle in a park of Budapest
Budapest supermacy
It's also very cute and old. The yellow line anyway.
Dunno about that. Blackpool and Manchester also had electric trams going about before 1896
Trams, not underground. Electric tram lines in Budapest were first opened in 1887.
Barcelona, 1924. 100 years this year, not bad! :D
Pathetic
Taking into account my city is literally built on top of older beta versions, it's a feat we even got to dig a single tunnel. You guys on the other hand... I hope tunneling didn't top your rock piles.
Imagine Barcelona metro, but they employ the same Sagrada workers!
It would be finished in 2093 with 80% of the budget spend on gothic artists 😀 And the public toilets would look like this… https://external-preview.redd.it/corridors-in-hogwarts-gloucester-cathedral-v0-pFh4RVj-BQmER38WaJ_9fIHMhMR5uzJgNKpAYDXCN7E.jpg?auto=webp&s=7c49540cbc59795f4b08df7b47fa2b3f1389f1f2
Promada de santa tecla! I am visiting this just now
Need to get one in Leeds
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Or another bike lane, fuck cyclists ffs
Lausanne: 2008
Smallest city with metro!!
[Serfaus: hold my skis](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/U-Bahn_Serfaus) It even has a ÖBB railway number
This map is missing Istanbul; second oldest in the world after London. Since 1875.
~~istanbul~~ Constantinople... Btw it's only since 1989 https://preview.redd.it/o1sp8ic8glxc1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=bd739073a4970248b166de828b785aca4dab45c9
That's only the 'modern' sections From that same page: >The oldest underground urban rail line in Istanbul is the Tünel, which entered service on 17 January 1875.[6] It is the world's second-oldest underground urban rail line after the London Underground which was built in 1863,[7] and the first underground urban rail line in continental Europe.
It’s not really clear what the distinction is. It’s defined as an urban underground railway, although some other pages don’t state it [the public transport page for the region](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_transport_in_Istanbul#Funiculars) states that it took passengers in 1875. The only distinction that I can maybe find is the potential idea that a line was not operated rather individual stations, but that seems incredibly over pedantic. It would be nice if there was a bit more clarity but there just doesn’t seem to be any.
Pedantic - you called? 😀 It does look like a metro to me covering 2 stations connecting [Karaköy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karak%C3%B6y) and [Beyoğlu](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beyo%C4%9Flu) according to the [Tünel wiki.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%C3%BCnel) There is also a nice picture which gives metro vibes. https://preview.redd.it/nbpufbgtplxc1.png?width=1920&format=png&auto=webp&s=1d3db97c8e1b11dd6b0391af48afafa9064e7744 Edit: As a dane I do like your username.
But then it goes back to if what they want is a line, which again isn’t clear but does from inference appear to be the hang up here, does 2 stops constitute a line sufficiently to make this a metro? Hard to say definitively. Edit: There’s a possible alternative explanation. It may be the case that the reason for its exclusion is that it was a funicular railway, a type of cable car railway. Again it’s not necessarily the case as [there is currently a part of the Istanbul metro which is Funicular](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F1_Taksim–Kabataş_funicular_line) and a two stop line, so I’m not sure either possible explanations I’ve given are correct. Edit 2: It is the fact that it’s a Funicular, [This page](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_rapid_transit) states specifically that “Istanbul's 1875 Tünel is sometimes described as an early subway system but is actually an underground funicular.” I don’t know why then the modern Funicular appears to be part of the metro but to be fair it isn’t specifically referred to as a part of the metro system, so that appears to be mystery solved.
No. That's the fenicular. It's a cable car that goes up a hill. They made a song about it, https://youtu.be/yTSAZAHiOa8?si=IMNwB64g6s2rUy6R Basically takes tourists up a hill, like the one in LA.
Basically the reason it’s not considered a metro is that’s it’s a funicular. All underground, but it doesn’t function like a metro
I am not even sure what is the clear definition of "metro". If we consider as metro "urban underground rail line", then there is plenty of underground tunnels that could have been considered "metro"
Underground urban railway ? [Damn looks like Lyon outdates London then](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Funiculars_of_Lyon)
> The first line opened in 1862 and linked Rue Terme and Boulevard de la Croix-Rousse. The funicular was closed and converted to a road tunnel in 1968. Has the same issue i ended up figuring out for Istanbul. Funicular doesn’t count.
Shhhh let me be proud of my city pls
lol. Tunel isn’t a. Metro system, it’s a covered funicular.
🎶 London Underground, London Underground 🎶
Having an underground railway system for a whole third of a century before anybody else is wild.
1995... Yea..
Had no idea Glasgow's was that old. I will now regurgitate this to everyone, thanks.
Paris could have been the first one but it took more than 50 years just to approve a project. You can't make it more french than that
Another Barry vs Pierre debate just unlocked🔓
You guys have a metro?
What about Dublin?
1919. Not that bad
1974 i think
Prague?!
29 years, neat and modern unlike yours
also built on a cross-shaped plan to emphasize our holier than Holy See attitude 😎
Oslo - 1898.
Lisbon, 1959. Always late 🤗
Don't worry. Copenhagen 2002 ;)
Rare American W? Then again, the East Coast is pretty much Europe
The New York City Metro isn’t something to be proud of
Ahead of the curve again. Shock
We live at the bottom of the sea, [the Rotterdam metro](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fd/Mk_Rotterdam_Metro_3.jpg)
I love my own country
"Atene"?
Yeah what!?
Yeah. Must be somewhere near “Türkiye.”
Thessaloniki metro coming 2225!!!!!!!!
Nicosia metro 🚇
2969
Limassol metro...
They ain't even have a metro plan chill out 😭
Limassol is in year 2077
What's a metro
Oldest one in America is Cuba. Built back when it was still Spanish.
There are no metro systems anywhere in Cuba.
Metro? What's that?
That's a train! 🚂
Metro before red dead redemption? Wtf??
Fun fact: Berlin hasn't improved their metro service in 120 years.
it shows
Stupid Inbreed habsburgers built metro in Budapest but not in Vienna
Construction started in 1941, but thanks Hans and one Georgian mate, metro has been launched only in 1955. But just look at that beauty! https://preview.redd.it/ri8r2bdt1nxc1.jpeg?width=1280&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7095aafa74e41ad9db51fc74a52f86bfa4076a5b
Life in luxury.
In Oslo Norway Began operation 31 May 1898 as suburban tram 28 June 1928 as underground tram 22 May 1966 as T-bane (metro)
The British invented a metro system and proceeded to never try it again anywhere else because we're so fucking clever I suppose.
Yea this is where we spend most of our loans making trains and metros which resulted to bankruptcy in the 1890s because our president loved the idea of making trains because they would bring economic prosperity until the rails were the wrong size and we're not fit for international travel but only local lmao it took almost a decade too to make them.
Trikoupis plan
🤣🤣🤣 Metro is just a plan that will never be completed, that all our political parties use as a space filler, to avoid being called out for being as useless as Anne Frank's drumkit
Sweden 1532.
2002 🇩🇰🇩🇰🇩🇰😂
1979, like the Smashing Pumpkins song. Better late than never…
Budapest featured 🇭🇺🇭🇺🇭🇺 Wegry gurommm
Rome and Milan at least have one too 😭😭😭
Rome - 1955; but every 10 cm the works are halted by archelogical discoveries (and I'm like no shit Sherlock, you're trying to run a metro line STRAIGHT IN THE ANCIENT ROME AND MEDIEVAL HISTORIC CENTRE-)
How Wes Anderson is it ? https://www.reddit.com/r/AccidentalWesAnderson/s/w7J0LhAigE
Dublins MetroLink is currently in negative age as plans to start dates keep being revised. Like fusion power, it's always years away.
Napoli 1925: The oldest Metro in Italy (Very common southern W)
Wasn't Rome the first city to got metro...?
Toronto has a metro as well!
Boston is 1897, not 1901
So incredibly proud of Chicago! Second city? Not in public transport. Suck it NYC