Miles and Miles

I just read that the Shanghai Metro is now the longest in the world. It’s even longer than the London metro system. I would guess the Shanghai system will keep growing over the next few years, it’s already 420km long.

The metro system in Shanghai is amazing. I ride it daily. It’s cheap, clean, fast, regular and available all over the city. Enough lines have opened up in the past few years that I no longer know all the stations or even where all the lines go. The most amazing thing though is even though the trains run 3-5 minutes apart and there are 420km of metro line in use, every single day for the bulk of the day, you’ll be crammed in the subway like a can of sardines