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With the right approach, everything works perfectly.

I don't quite understand your logic. Should cities be as unattractive as possible to discourage tourists? Don't locals deserve a better street space?

@@cityforall There are no locals to this place already. The population of central part of Warsaw fell from 140k people to less than 100k in 15 years. Nobody needs these changes but tourists. And yes, cities should be unattractive to discourage tourists. Tourism doesn't do any good to a city.

Or maybe, on the contrary, the population fell because there were no such changes and the environment was uncomfortable?

@@cityforall yes, it became uncomfortable ever since the changes have been undertaken. Every little change was pro-tourist and anti-resident. I know that because I was a downtown resident myself but I left a long time ago and I'm never coming back. Let's say you live in the area where you have every ammenity you can think of. Then the pharmacy is gone and it becomes a bank. Then the grocery store is gone and it becomes a fancy cafeteria. Then your parking lot is gone and it becomes a useless piece of grass that dogs use to shit on. Then 3 night clubs open in your building and you constantly hear screams and bass rumble until 3 AM. Then they close your street to make it pedestrian-friendly but there's no fuckin grocery store so you can't just walk with your groceries like you used to but you have to take the car to a mall to buy your groceries there, but you cannot drive it to your home because these idiots pedestrianized the shit out of the place. Meanwhile they brag how friendly it is now, but for some strange reason half of the apartments in your block are airbnbs now. After 3-5 years this number increases to 90 percent and all of the neighbours you knew and formed a community with left already. So what do you do? You leave. Just as I did. It's my story.

I understand your point/ That worth a specific video about this topic.

Wow, have you watched all the videos on the channel? That's cool!

What happened to the tram in Quebec?

@@cityforall It's a bit complicated and requires a bit of context. I'm sorry, this is going to be a long one. TL;DR The provincial government is inconsistent with what they want with transportation, except when it wins them points. The tramway was not funded because it's too expensive, but an underwater tube even more expensive is just the solution to solve traffic. The QC tramway, like so many others, existed until the 1940s when cars took over. After that, highways were built, neighborhoods were split even for a highway tunnel that would never be, the city sprawled immensely and... well, it's the usual pretty much for North America. Today, the city is only unique for world famous Old Québec, the rest is average for this continent. Montréal is better as a city imo. The bus network consists of 3 bus types: normal (blue), Metrobus (articulated green) and express (red, but actually painted white). The latter can go on highways. All 3 types have 1 thing in common: they run in mixed traffic. So an "express" bus stuck on A-40 in rush hour isn't uncommon. As for the metrobus, they are considered to have pretty much hit their capacity. Enter the new Tramway project, first announced in 2017 I think, and was expected to start construction this year. It's a 19,2 km long track featuring physically separated rail on elevated concrete slabs (no grassy trams :() in the middle of the streets. The trams would have been Alstom Citadis. The project was estimated to be... 8B$. That's huge for a tram. The reasons are: -Alstom was the only bidder (the way we make contracts pushed everyone else away... even the Chinese + we lost Bombardier not too long ago); -There was a tunnel under Old Québec, those are always expensive; -Being the first system in the province in almost 80 years, the skills just weren't quite there; -You also need the support infrastructure, with new depots, so it was going to be pricier by default. As a result, the provincial government refused to fund it, and instead sent it to CDPQ-Infra (the agency responsible for the REM) for a study to find something cheaper. I wonder if the federal government would've adapted their funds so that it pays for I think 10% of the project (they were looking forward to that one). The reason I don't like this, and why I'd rather bite the bullet with that 8B$, is that, before all this, there was the REM-de-L'Est fiasco and all the trash about the 3ème lien, an underwater freeway tunnel that would've cost even more billions and exacerbate sprawl in Lévis, at the other side of the river. The REM-de-L'Est was infamous for having the audacity of making an elevated rail over multiple stroads in the city. So it was absolutely NIMBYd to the ground, and the government stripped the project from CDPQ-Infra and lent it to the city and the ARTM (which cooked their own tramway project fully underground that was so expensive our PM spitted coffee). So with the Québec tramway it's the complete opposite, strip from the city, send to CDPQ... The 3ème lien was the highlight of the promises of the current provincial government to solve traffic on the other 2 bridges (that aren't in the best shape right now). It was always a controversial project due to the cost and the consequences of its construction. It started as a single tube with 6 lanes of traffic (one direction over the other), 2 of which were bus lanes. That would be later downgraded to just 4 lanes per direction in 2 tubes, saying goodbye to the bus lanes (I am farily certain they only added these just to get federal funding). That was in the first term. After the 2022 elections where they got a *large* majority... they cancelled it. Saying it was undoable. They had still made it their highlight on that campaign btw. They then said they were thinking of making it a bridge with only public transport. Then the partial election in the Jean-Talon circonscription happened, where the CAQ (the party in power) lost to the PQ (the one party who tried to get us independent... and was supposed to be dead) in a shocking twist. The day after... suddenly the 3ème Lien is doable now! Our current government is so inconsistent that I can't take their refusal to fund the tramway seriously. 2 weeks ago, our minister of transport said public transit was not their responsibility in the midst of a crisis where there is a legitimate threat of service cuts in Montréal. So now I'm patiently waiting for 2026 to vote them out... unless the rest of the province decides to keep them in for 4 more years of pure joy. Because transport is not their only major blunder, 2023 was a very awful year for them. End rant.

Oh, I didn't know about that. That's quite unusual :)

@@cityforall in the 70's series mr Karwowski was an engeener on the contruction of Central Station :) In Poland, roundabouts are most often named after historical figures, but this is one of the exceptions. In this case, the residents' initiative resulted in the name of the roundabout after a fictional character.

It must have been a very popular movie. Is it possible to watch it online?

Thank you!

Kiel at least get it. :)

Fingers crossed!

Are there extension plans?

@@tilmanarchivar8945 There are. But when any of them will become reality - this is another question.

a tram is great when planned right. Current plans in Regensburg City are good at some point, but are plain poor in some aspects as well. They're not thinking big pretty much all they do is try to squeeze it into existing corridors, lacking alternative parallel roads which can handle the amount of road traffic etc

That's interesting, thanks!

Hopefully they both approve the referendum. I can't see any anyone would be opposed to having trams in their city.

@@guerreiro943 ohh the conservatives dont like it in both cities. A lot of these referendums fail in smaller cities. You have a lot of car owners dont want to pay for trams. Ironically a owned car is more expensive for the tax payer. Govermental money is just allow to flow if its monetary beneficial in the long run in Germany. And thats the case in every slightly bigger town. In Regensburg maybe the tunnel is a problem, but they seem calculated it and 200k+ should be more then enough

​@@guerreiro943We lost several referendums on trams in the last few years. The most famous example is probably Wiesbaden, a capital city of a state with 280.000 people opposed a tram with 60% in 2020.

Thanks you!

Oh, really! Thanks!

I live in the city of Laval, Québec, Canada with a population around 430 K peoples with no tram. A bus fleet around 255 buses with no articulated of double decker we got 5 commuter trains station (De la Concorde, Viimont, Ste-Rose) with 2 of them will be convert to REM Station (Île-Bigras and Sainte-Dorothée) and 3 Metro stations (Montmorency, De la Concorde and Cartier métro stations) out of 68 in the greater Montréal Region. Meanwhile in Europe a town of 175 K think about a Tram Station

I hope that the result will be positive. As far as I remember, there have already been unsuccessful tram referendums in Germany.

Hopefully it won't turn out like Wiesbaden

Thanks!

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