How Athens built a metro on a deadline

Substack: https://theflyingmoose.substack.com/ Instagram:   / theflyingmooseca   Google form: https://forms.gle/pu6UMmTdFaqdvYhk6 Buy me a baseball 🤓 https://buymeacoffee.com/hudsonyuen Huge thank you to Adam Markakis for sharing his thoughts - check out some of his work: https://substack.com/@adammarkakis I think the Athens metro is a great example of how existing systems can be upgraded and expanded extremely quickly, but why it's difficult to maintain that pace and capacity. It's a good lesson for any city, and at the very least, I think the system is actually quite impressive :) 00:00 welcome 01:27 early days 04:20 AMB (base project) 08:16 olympics 13:25 legacy 20:33 run it back LA