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Barcelona Metro line L9
>way overbuilt, should have been just a semicircular line to break the radial pattern
>Airport branch makes 0 sense, way slower than the train and it should reach the city center not residential areas
>massive roundabout on the way to the airport
>built mostly with huge tunnels, requiring very deep construction which means losing a lot of time accessing it and lots of expensive elevators
>went waaaay over budget, still not close to being finished because no money
>first bits built were on the outside, less useful, instead of the sensible central part
The only good things it has going for it is that the central part does make sense, and the one branch is elevated which is reasonable, although that branch would better have been an extension of the L2 so it would reach the city centre.
