The Charleroi Pre-metro, the metro that was built and they didn’t come! A short history on failed transit planning.

One ‘metro‘Ai??Ai??system that every proponent of the SkyTrain light-metro ignores is the Charleroi pre-metro. In Belgium traditional LRT is known as ‘trams‘, LRT built as a light-metro is known as pre metro. Pre metro has much in common with SkyTrain, including segregated rights-of-ways and large stations with escalators, etc. The Charleroi MA?Ai??tro is famous for […]