Subways of the World - Compared

[LucaZone]

Intersting site

http://www.fakeisthenewreal.org/subway/

 

[westcoaster]

the two strangest one's are madrid, whats the bid loop at the bottom and BEIJENG straight line with a central circle

 

[Snapper]

And to flesh the picture out a little:

London:
http://paulbigland.fotopic.net/c451606.html

New York and Washington:
http://paulbigland.fotopic.net/c1246648.html

Copenhagen:
http://paulbigland.fotopic.net/p5318520.html
http://paulbigland.fotopic.net/p5318541.html

Athens:
http://paulbigland.fotopic.net/c196248.html

 

[Kris]

St Petersburg is also the deepest in the world with the steepest escalators too.

At the bottom of each escalator sits a woman in a booth juslt looking up. What a boring job!

Doesn't show Oslo or Warsaw and I expect quite a few others. When I was in Warsaw a few years ago the line only went North-South. Not much chance of getting lost.

A lot of the Stockholm stations are cavelike with works of art inside

 

[Snapper]

I knew I had pictures of another one somewhere. Here's Singapore:
http://paulbigland.fotopic.net/c1274704.html

 

[compsci]

I thought that the NY Subway was bigger than LU. It took me quite a while to ride on all of it.

 

[LondonBVE]

I knew I had pictures of another one somewhere. Here's Singapore:
http://paulbigland.fotopic.net/c1274704.html

The metro here has been going through quite a big change since the last time the pictures are taken. The LRT change to the new company livery along with the main metro. While HabourFront Station has some construction going on for some light rail connections below platform 1 and 2. And the train you seen has been refurbished and a new batch of rolling stock has entered.

http://paulbigland.fotopic.net/p41110962.html I live not far from there and that is my local metro station.

 

[ChrisCooper]

It's interesting looking at the different densities of the systems. London is rarther in between, covering a fairly large area, yet being quite dence in the middle. You've then got systems like Paris, which is much more compact, with lines going nothing like as far out (although if the RER system was added that would change), yet being a mad tangle in the centre. Tokyo is similar, but extends a bit further out. Another thing is that whilst most systems are fairly round, both in terms of the outer boundries, and also there inner (and other) circles, London is far more flattened, infact North-South it's pretty much average size, wheras East-West it's around twice the size of most other systems. Then there are things like San Fransisco and Los Angeles, which cover very large areas, but are quite simple. Oviously, those two are a lot more modern than London and Paris (not sure about Tokyo). Los Angeles actually looks like an upside down stikman, even with a little head, which I presume is a turning loop, although I won't imagine what the branch coming off near the top of one of his legs is. The modern systems tend to be a lot straighter than the old ones, due to not needing to follow roads.
A few other systems it misses are Newcastle and Glasgow, and also Lille in France.