The United States freeway system was build for a different reason, defense. While Eisenhower was just a Captain between the war he took a Army Convoy part way across the US and discovered moving men and equipment would be difficult in a time of war. When he became President he pushed for the interstates to be built. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate_Highway_System It is possible to drive from the Pacific Ocean to the Atlantic Ocean on one of the interstate freeway without ever seeing a stop sign or a red light (except on police car if you go too fast), or from the Mexico border to the Canadian border. East West numbers are even, and North South numbers are odd. It can take 3 - 5 days to drive across the United States.
Now Moscow Metro has 13 lines and few weeks later will open 14 line (if count with Moscow Central Circle and Moscow Central Diameters, then will 19 lines).
Initially they built it elevated and overground, but some of the places said, they should bury these plans. Instead this, they burried the tracks. Today's underground line 2 is the best example. Pankow said "we cannot stand to see elevated trains", so the station Vinetastrasse is like Vineta deep down. Prenzlauer Berg has no problem, Kreuzberg the same, they are called by mountains. Mitte required not to look like Chicago Downtown, so subway. Charlottenburg prefered to hide the trains, Spandau hasn't any problem with overground.
How did they build a motorway compare to a railway, well they destroyed more land and trees to this white elephant and everyone goes on about climate change.
I worked for a major US entertainment client who was looking for building/offices in UK. I performed due diligence study of several sites. When we visited future site of Canary Warf Business Center BEFORE 1 Canada Square Existed in late 1980's with Olympia & York. There were MANY low income Families who lived there. When I asked how they intended to relocate everyone fairly... my ? "Sadly" went ignored.
You spoiled that piece with the last few comments ........fast forward to July '24 & those comments about the location & staying at Goodison look like they were .........stupid !!!!
Interesting, but what was Terminal one please, I know that I have seen signs when I got off the train there. What has happened to it, and are they going to rebuild, and reopen it?
During the late 60s/early 70's, the pitch was moved significantly to the North, in order to accommodate the larger stand that replaced The Scratching shed... The Kop was rebuilt first, 60 feet behind the original terrace, and then the pitch was shifted Northwards.
They really don’t explain how it was built. Most old world buildings had a competition behind it. A lot of fluff in the story and stats but who actually built it? How many men? What tools? Horse and buggy? Where did all the material come from? How did they transport it? When did construction start/end? Bunch of nonsense in this video. Pay attention!
Just stumbled across this and as a saddo who likes this sort of stuff it is fun to find any roads that are out of zone, for example the A88 near Falkirk which is entirely in zone 9! One thing you didn’t mention though is that motorways in England and Wales use a separate zoning system from the A/B roads, numbered 1-6, whilst in Scotland they simply replace the A road for the most part. This is why Britain has no M7 but has an M876.
I think they had pile drivers similar to ours, they had cranes and from crane to pile driver its not so far. Few hundred kilogram stone hammer on a rope and simple guide would do the job 100x faster than thousands workers with hammer. People back in the day were not do different that much they didnt like to do to much work.
Kind of shocking that "Mustache Man" didn't do anything with the Ubahn, considering how much his party loved massive public works projects and their competition with the commies, you would think he would have wanted a system to compete with Stalins amazing Metro system in Moscow...
