04-21-2019, 08:36 PM
I know we already have a thread about railways; however, I think metro systems serve quite a different purpose from inter-city rail networks (and they're a pretty broad topic in and of themselves), so IMO they deserve their own thread .
So, quite a lot of big cities around the world have a metro system, using short-distance railways to carry large numbers passengers around the city as efficiently as possible. To the cities that have them, they're often an indispensable part of the transport infrastructure. Generally, the system will be at least partially underground (in tunnels), overground (on bridges above the streets), or wombling free (on Wimbledon Common). Sometimes there are just one or two lines; however, some cities have spaghetti-like networks with a total length of hundreds of miles. This leads to some pretty crazy and confusing maps - as the following video illustrates:
So, have you been on any of these metro systems? If you live in a city that has one, do you think it's any good? And if you live in a city that doesn't have one, would you like one?
So, quite a lot of big cities around the world have a metro system, using short-distance railways to carry large numbers passengers around the city as efficiently as possible. To the cities that have them, they're often an indispensable part of the transport infrastructure. Generally, the system will be at least partially underground (in tunnels), overground (on bridges above the streets), or wombling free (on Wimbledon Common). Sometimes there are just one or two lines; however, some cities have spaghetti-like networks with a total length of hundreds of miles. This leads to some pretty crazy and confusing maps - as the following video illustrates:
So, have you been on any of these metro systems? If you live in a city that has one, do you think it's any good? And if you live in a city that doesn't have one, would you like one?
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