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'Finally, we made it!': Ho Chi Minh City celebrates first metro
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At last! Relief for a great city choking from the exhaust of literally millions of combustion scooters.
One day those scooters will finally go electric, as they already are in nextdoor China. Combined with the reduction in traffic that the metro will bring, I think this will change everything. With its beautiful French colonial buildings and its walkable communist boulevards, Saigon-HCM will be the most pleasant big city in the region.
This is such a weird descriptor to me. I don't think I treat capitalism as the default anymore, and I still wouldn't look at a Dutch city and think "What beautiful, capitalist boulevards."
In that case read it as "authoritarian boulevards". Top-down regimes love wide streets which can comfortably fit tanks and parades. This is not an original observation, fascist countries have had them too. Vietnam is a deeply repressive state with no opposition parties allowed.
But if you take the cars (and of course tanks) out of them, wide boulevards can be really pleasant places to walk. That's all I was saying.