Losing Track - 8 - Capital City

[@gigteevee6118]

Proves nothing changes, but it's a great upload for history's sake and consideration, maybe one day we'll learn?

[@kenstevens5065]

Quite fitting that this production was released in 1984 also the title of a certain novel which in the 2020's seems to be turning into reality.

[@glenatkinson1230]

Whatever happened to these interesting and informative films? Now we have rubbish "reality shows" foisted upon us..

[@horsenuts1831]

Unfortunately, these days, these clever people who squirrel away, day-in, day-out, for an average wage and trying to make life better for everybody are now called, "unelected bureaucrats".

[@dglcomputers1498]

@@horsenuts1831 Plus people want to "make it" and as such will work for pennies just to feel like they've got somewhere. Now of you want to make money are you going to get a lot of experts to do an expensive documentary or create a cheap reality show, where for the "actors" being on TV is payment enough.

[@iman2341]

Its almost exactly the same story as today. How refreshing :/.

[@davidbradshaw659]

Georges Pompidou was the french prime minister in 1965, he wasn't president until 1969.

[@janicepinola3871]

However bad it got, it is soooo much better than in the US.

[@johnstudd4245]

@phillyslasher As my experience of an American living in a metro area of a medium sized city in the mid west, I view major auto traffic congestion as primarily a large city problem. Our largely auto centric culture generally works quite well for most areas of the country. We like to drive for short and medium distances(sometimes long also) and fly for long distances. Living in a major city is a different life style, that, quite frankly, most of us don't want. Right now with covid and violence and high cost of living in many large cities people are starting to get out. Most "experts" think that trend will continue for the foreseeable future. I like the freedom of going when and where I want, on my schedule.

[@LMB222]

Don't flatter yourself - it's pretty close to what you find in NYC or even Chicago. Eastern Europe has a better network than London…

[@squamespeach7258]

It's weird how things go in leaps then stop. Paris' metro is still using paper tickets whereas London transport rolled out contactless payment via oyster and then bank cards. The RER system has allowed a two-tier segregated city to grow up around the metro (Paris proper) and the RER (suburbs) whereas there isn't the same segregation on London's railways

[@daystatesniper01]

Ponder on this ,the cost of crossrail 1 and the proposed cost of crossrail 2 you could open 78% of the lines closed by Beeching

[@marvintpandroid2213]

Its a pity the lines closed by Beeching aren't in cities, he protected the vast majority of the commuting lines.

[@PeaveyPV20]

But alot of those shut by beaching had sparse traffic even years ago serving rural areas.

[@andrewoakeshott7759]

never mind the cost of building HS2 (although there are of course some good arguments in favour of it). still, to this day Switzerland's public transport success kind of proves that having a properly integrated, far-reaching and, for the most part, highly reliable public transport system may be a better way to get more people off the roads than flashy high-speed lines. High public transport ridership in the Netherlands and the Greater Copenhagen area (Denmark) seems to be down to similar policies. Sad to think Britain was once well on the way to achieving similar (albeit smaller) successes in Greater London, Tyne-and-Wear and South Yorkshire, before eventually successive governments mucked even that one up...

[@highpath4776]

See 'Kellett' The Impact of Railways on Victorian Cities. The Corporation Of London also banned (a) Trams, and (b) Railways from terminating or crossing the City (generally), so in that sense there was planning - but this also gave rise to the terminals along The New Road (now generally Euston Road) which maybe should have crossed London - Though the Railway companies still saw freight (and of that for London mostly Coal) as the money making activity, Passenger services were really an inconvience and less profitable.

[@michaelhunt4445]

They were never meant for passengers.

[@Keithbarber]

I find public transport has improved tremendously, but London is much better for cycling around

[@goodwood-rc4nx]

even as i type is a snowball chance in a volcano of me ever driving into or around central london