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>be urban region on the coast in 1990
>transport trouble: to travel in the periphery, you often gotta go downtown as most bus-lines there are drawn out like sunrays
>draw a crescent-shaped light rail project to provide transportation across
>"REEE RAIL COST MONEY!!!"
>"We've got trams already and know-how from experience. Look, here it's gonna follow what was an old rail-line, so the foundations are already there and space comes free for that part."
>"REEE"
>1994
>still nothing
>regional transport development plan tags project as top priority to be started as soon as possible
>"REE BUS CHEAPER!!"
>"Okay, we'll put the fuckin' bus on the line."
>"Passenger counts are projected to exceed those of the metro, so good luck and fuck you."
>rail plan delayed until 2030's in 1998
>bus line starts in 2003.
>2006
>passenger counts grow rapidly, as expected for the sole direct channel of transport east-to-west and back
>2008
>24% increase since 2006
>buses start clustering up
>the entire choreography of the bus-system is redrawn to force more capacity out of it, route unchanged
>more vehicles
>2009
>new inquiries into light rail
>"REEE! NO PROFIT!"
>"You didn't give a shit about that back when the metro was planned."
>2010
>testing of jointed and multi-jointed buses
>"Aren't those basically just trains on rubber wheels?"
>2013
>"This isn't working. We'll be completely swamped by 2025, or sooner!"
>"REE!"
>2016-2017
>planning, approval
>mid-2019
>construction begins, planned opening in 2024
>have to chop up the trees that have grown next/on the old rail line in part thanks to the three-decade delay
>"REEE!"
