North Korea has 11 cars per 1000 people
Vietnam has 23 cars per 1000 people
Hong Kong has 92 cars per 1000 people
China has 200 cars per 1000 people
France has 478 cars per 1000 people
Canada has 685 cars per 1000 people
The United States has 838 cars per 1000 people
Tell me again how workers need to drive to work.
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I haven't visited mainland China yet, but the Hong Kong and Tokyo metros were excellent! Tokyo has a weird system of several private companies running their own lines, but I had zero trouble getting around (even at morning rush hour).
The real dirty secret of the Tokyo metro system is that the lines are pretty tolerable during rush hour if you're inside the Yamanote loop line. The real hell is the commuter lines coming from Saitama, Yokohama, Chiba, or Western Tokyo during rush hour. Those trains are absolute sardine cans.
The Moscow Metro is pretty dope too, even if only for the rad murals of Lenin and Stalin.
It's also crazy that you don't even have to be that old to remember a time when the Shanghai Metro was only 2 lines. The third line only opened up in 2000, meaning it went from "meh" to world class in only 20 years.
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"But <buys more F-35s> who's <bombs Syria> going <budgets $100m to defame China> to <billions in military aid to Israel> pay <continues war in Iraq> for <tax breaks for billionaires> it?!"
my fucking city started building a 27km light rail line 5 years ago. They started planning in 2009. And they aren't even fucking done.