01-28-2016, 11:31 PM
(01-28-2016, 10:11 PM)Canard Wrote:Quote:Notice that this is too a vanity project, built for Expo 2005.
You use every chance you can to point out that when a project is built with good optics, it is somehow instantly disqualify from being valid. A shame, really. I feel sorry that your vision for the future is so... beige.
You keep on misinterpreting my point. I have nothing against a sensible transit project that is also planned to be nice looking. What I'm complaining about are pretty projects that make no transit sense and end up being underutilized because of this. In fact I even mentioned ICE and TGV as projects that are quite useful and nice looking.
Vanity projects (i.e. all looks no utility) are actually quite damaging to the reputation of the technology if you think about it for a minute. For example the Chongqing monorail which actually works in practice helps the monorail case a lot, while the dozen or so other underutilized vanity monorails severely damage it.