DavidTrainMic 12 - Zürich's metro or U-Bahn system... built? unbuilt?...
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The plan to give Switzerland's most populous city a metro line failed at the ballot box, yet even before voters sent those plans to that great big train shed in the sky, a few parts of the network was already built — and can be visited today, to see what would have been quite an ambitious network...
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