TL;DW: The city of Rennes, France (pop. ~400k) proves that your city doesn’t have to be NYC or Tokyo or London to have a very high-quality, frequent rapid transit.
I’ve ridden the Rennes Metro. It’s basically the only kind of metro that should be built today: driverless with platform screen doors and high frequency.
It’s nice. Most metros in France are nice.
Driverless and weekend night service 😍
Tiny seems like an overstatement but impressive nonetheless.
Rennes’ actual population is more like 220k, but that still is enough to be number 10 or 11 in France. It’s the urban area that comes to around 360k, though there also is the metropolitan area with around 750k. But the city itself is 220k. By any of these means, it’s not a megacity, but there are many, many much, much tinier places in the region, regardless of how you define “region”.
title is not really fair, most places in the world have a better metro than north america
also nice username, have you met any strange ladies who made you nervous recently?
Yeah, these strange ladies made me nervous because they were distributing swords, claiming possession of which was the basis for a system of government. If you ask me, supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony.
Oh, and then one of these strange ladies took me in and made me breakfast.
Tinier city have a really good tramway system too. Saint Etienne, Tours, Montpellier and many others have a great tramway system that is as good as a metro.
