Wow, the original Mons station looked really striking in red brick. Kind of a shame cities keep spending so much money building monsters like the new Mons station but won't try to integrate it at all with the local urban environment and aesthetics, or use local materials.
Local here. It's a dark pit of mafia/political collusion, half of this money have been embezzled plain and simple. The station in Liege is exactly in the same style, which sacrifice usability for the cheap wow effect.
Nice video! As someone currently living in Mons, I have mixed feelings about the new station, while I think it looks very nice and modern, and is well connected with local transit, it's also pretty oversized for such a small city with so few passengers annually. The station is also quite a pain to cross the station using a bicycle.
@@cityforall Oh it is in every other regard, problem is, if you want to go accross the station with a bike using the station, you need to use an elevator as they are no proper ramps, which ironically, are present at the temporary overpass they had put up during construction
Alstom has delivered the first of the 3 new trams to increase frequencies in Barcelona after the Tram extension last november. Not that relevant, but it's something.
Odd to see a new Calatrava station being opened now. When I visited Liege Guillemins in 2023 I already thought that much of the station looked outdated, especially the platform sections outside of the main arching canopy. Mons‘ new station is no different. It screams early 2000s architecture.
4:50 Constructive criticism: please put a contrasting border around your on-screen text. SBS in Australia (which is a multicultural broadcaster with most shows using subtitles) uses yellow font and a black lettering border (similar yellow to the tram at 4:52) which never has contrast issues. Not a black background for the text, simply black outlining.
I'm from Belgium, not for Mons and let's say I prefer the German style of stations with a lot of retail included over the Belgian attitude of style over substance. The biggest offender in my opinion is de Halle station which doesn't even have a heated closed op area but does have a designer roof.
the buses alone will not make a decent puplic transport, USA, but at least they do something...and Santiago you get your numbers wrong, it should be 800 bicycles and 300 cars... but well...
Wow, the original Mons station looked really striking in red brick. Kind of a shame cities keep spending so much money building monsters like the new Mons station but won't try to integrate it at all with the local urban environment and aesthetics, or use local materials.
Local here. It's a dark pit of mafia/political collusion, half of this money have been embezzled plain and simple. The station in Liege is exactly in the same style, which sacrifice usability for the cheap wow effect.
Thank you for covering the Solaris contract!!!
Nice video! Lovely to see Bergamo included. Hanoi is the capital city of Vietnam, not Ho Chi Minh
Fun fact - people are more likely to write comments when they react to mistakes and inaccuracies than when everything is fine :)
Soon as I heard Calatrava I knew what was coming, won't catch me waiting on those platforms on rainy days.
Thanks for including the Tyne & Wear Metro 👍
Indeed
4:30 I was not expecting Newcastle to be here for once
But why?
Newcastle has just a cool system, if only other big cities in the UK would understand how important public transport is..
@@cityforall it's just seems to be overlooked sometimes by London, Manchester and Birmingham despite it's pretty good transport
Happy to see Tallinn included once in a while🎉! I wonder where you got all of the info as it checked out quite well😂
Actually Tallinn is included quite regularly ;)
The Solaris contract means CAF is expanding it’s bussines portfolio too! Good thing.
Nice video! As someone currently living in Mons, I have mixed feelings about the new station, while I think it looks very nice and modern, and is well connected with local transit, it's also pretty oversized for such a small city with so few passengers annually. The station is also quite a pain to cross the station using a bicycle.
So it's not so inclusive as they say in the official press-releases?
@@cityforall Oh it is in every other regard, problem is, if you want to go accross the station with a bike using the station, you need to use an elevator as they are no proper ramps, which ironically, are present at the temporary overpass they had put up during construction
Gothenburg also just put their new 45m long Alstom flexity trams in service, but great vid anyways. Always love too see what the world is up to
Thank you ❤ 🚈
Alstom has delivered the first of the 3 new trams to increase frequencies in Barcelona after the Tram extension last november. Not that relevant, but it's something.
Odd to see a new Calatrava station being opened now. When I visited Liege Guillemins in 2023 I already thought that much of the station looked outdated, especially the platform sections outside of the main arching canopy. Mons‘ new station is no different. It screams early 2000s architecture.
There was also a new station opening on Paris' line 14 yesterday
Solaris is now part of spanish CAF
Btw you missed the opening of the Ellenbrook line in Perth australia
I already laughed when you said 37 million for this new station in Mons, like in which world?
Thank you, Oleksandr!
4:50 Constructive criticism: please put a contrasting border around your on-screen text. SBS in Australia (which is a multicultural broadcaster with most shows using subtitles) uses yellow font and a black lettering border (similar yellow to the tram at 4:52) which never has contrast issues. Not a black background for the text, simply black outlining.
I'm from Belgium, not for Mons and let's say I prefer the German style of stations with a lot of retail included over the Belgian attitude of style over substance. The biggest offender in my opinion is de Halle station which doesn't even have a heated closed op area but does have a designer roof.
Also opening of Villejuig Gustave Roussy on the Line 14 in Paris (soon it will be a hub with line 15)
1:15 LOL 😂😅
Thank you for weekly review of urbanism!
👍 for support!
the buses alone will not make a decent puplic transport, USA, but at least they do something...and Santiago you get your numbers wrong, it should be 800 bicycles and 300 cars... but well...
Hanoi is the capital of Viet Nam
Hanoi is Vietnamese capital and not Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon). Love your channel otherwise.
@KarlLouis1288 once again a dumb capital city mistake from me, seems it's my favorite type of mistakes 😁
Solaris is Spanish, not Polish.
In my opinion, it did not become Spanish only because it is part of the CAF Group.
Solaris buses are all build in Poland and are from there, its only a small part of the CAF in spain but that doesnt make them spanish.
AFAIK, Solaris Bus & Coach sp. z o.o. is a Polish company owned by a Spanish company Construcciones y Auxiliar de Ferrocarriles, S.A.
If Solaris is Spanish, then Alexander Dennis is Canadian.
I would personally say it's both Polish and Spanish