Introduction
On October 3, 2019, the soft launch of the Metro Express was done. The initial phase of Mauritius' light rail transit system will span from Port Louis to Rose Hill. But discussions for such a project started decades earlier. Its alignment also follows roughly that of the former railways constructed in the 1860s and dismantled in the 1960s.
Title and codename
Title: Capturing Mauritius' Metro Express
Codename: metro-express
How-to
Tracing the contemporary history of the Metro Express obviously necessitates going back to the newspaper archives. But the current project will focus mainly on the online news sources. The first step involved looking for organizing the online sources from lexpress.mu using Google. The website of lexpress.mu is one of the few in Mauritius which has kept online articles since 2004. The sources have been included in an Excel sheet with relevant metadata.
Next steps
The next steps will be to expand the sources as the current version stops at mid-November 2019, to explore the website using tags to find missed articles and to use other online news sources. The organized information can be used to create a narrative on the history of the Metro Express.
Links
1. Online sources
On October 3, 2019, the soft launch of the Metro Express was done. The initial phase of Mauritius' light rail transit system will span from Port Louis to Rose Hill. But discussions for such a project started decades earlier. Its alignment also follows roughly that of the former railways constructed in the 1860s and dismantled in the 1960s.
Photo of the Metro Express in Mauritius (From lexpress.mu)
Title and codename
Title: Capturing Mauritius' Metro Express
Codename: metro-express
How-to
Tracing the contemporary history of the Metro Express obviously necessitates going back to the newspaper archives. But the current project will focus mainly on the online news sources. The first step involved looking for organizing the online sources from lexpress.mu using Google. The website of lexpress.mu is one of the few in Mauritius which has kept online articles since 2004. The sources have been included in an Excel sheet with relevant metadata.
Next steps
The next steps will be to expand the sources as the current version stops at mid-November 2019, to explore the website using tags to find missed articles and to use other online news sources. The organized information can be used to create a narrative on the history of the Metro Express.
Links
1. Online sources
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