this post was submitted on 18 Aug 2025
39 points (100.0% liked)

Fuck Cars

13357 readers
187 users here now

A place to discuss problems of car centric infrastructure or how it hurts us all. Let's explore the bad world of Cars!

Rules

1. Be CivilYou may not agree on ideas, but please do not be needlessly rude or insulting to other people in this community.

2. No hate speechDon't discriminate or disparage people on the basis of sex, gender, race, ethnicity, nationality, religion, or sexuality.

3. Don't harass peopleDon't follow people you disagree with into multiple threads or into PMs to insult, disparage, or otherwise attack them. And certainly don't doxx any non-public figures.

4. Stay on topicThis community is about cars, their externalities in society, car-dependency, and solutions to these.

5. No repostsDo not repost content that has already been posted in this community.

Moderator discretion will be used to judge reports with regard to the above rules.

Posting Guidelines

In the absence of a flair system on lemmy yet, let’s try to make it easier to scan through posts by type in here by using tags:

Recommended communities:

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
toaster@slrpnk.net
grue@lemmy.world
Toaster1@lemmy.world
39
[article] Want to know what’s going right in Britain? Come to the capital, look at the Elizabeth line railway | Jonn Elledge (www.theguardian.com)
submitted 1 month ago by azimir@lemmy.ml to c/fuckcars@lemmy.world
2 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

London has managed to stabilize the routes and scheduling around the new Elizabeth Line metro in the city. This means they're comfortable with the infrastructure and have the staff to man it properly and they're going from 16 trains an hour to 20 per hour during peak times! That's a train every 3 minutes!

The Elizabeth Line was built to serve east London which had a lack of serious rail services, despite lots of growth over 50 years. It's been wildly successful since it opened in May 2022. It's served over 600,000,000 total trips, with peak days of 800k people per day. The line basically caps out based on how many trains can physically run, so going to 20 per hour could get the line up to a million people per day. That's a huge achievement in the transit world.

Nice work, London!

top 2 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] Cevilia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Fantastic! Well done London! Now do the rest of the UK please. :)

[–] azimir@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 month ago

Very much so!

From what I've read, Edinburgh is building some good transit the days. The new tram to the airport there is a huge upgrade.