By annual ridership, the New York City Subway is the busiest rapid transit system in both the Western Hemisphere and the Western world, as well as the eleventh-busiest rapid transit rail system in the world.[18] The subway carried 1,793,073,000 riders in 2022.[6]: 2 [note 5] On October 29, 2015, more than 6.2 million people rode the subway system, establishing the highest single-day ridership since ridership was regularly monitored in 1985.[20]
The system is also one of the world’s longest. Overall, the system contains 248 miles (399 km) of routes,[10] translating into 665 miles (1,070 km) of revenue track[10] and a total of 850 miles (1,370 km) including non-revenue trackage.[11] Of the system’s 28 routes or “services” (which usually share track or “lines” with other services), 25 pass through Manhattan, the exceptions being the G train, the Franklin Avenue Shuttle, and the Rockaway Park Shuttle.
The NYC system was built a century ago and operates at an astonishing level considering its for one city and is so relatively inexpensive.
And this appears to be a shot of a closed station that appears to be lit by flashlight - my guess is someone urbexing an abandoned station. There are quite a few stations in NYC that have been closed in the past century and aren’t well maintained. Some are still passed by active trains even though there’s no longer a stop there.
In all of Vietnam there are currently two active metro lines, one of which is only partially complete.
I hope it improves. Many lines are under construction but all of the projects have been plagued by delays for years.
But why would you include this as an example here?
But why would you include this as an example here?
What do those three countries have in common?
spoiler
OP is a tankie.
Tbf Vietnam has a hard time building lines given all the unexploded ordinance that the US left
make better agi prop, the US has the most gorgeous metro system in the world. Facts dont care about your feelings. (If you dont like brutalist architecture you probably wont like it and I’m sorry)Ahem, have you seen the Moscow subway?
Feels a little bougie if you ask me, but to each their own.
Funny you’d say that, because even though the first plans for it date back to the Russian Empire, it was the communists under Stalin who actually built it.
In case anyone is wondering, that’s Komsomolskaya station, built in 1952. Later stations tended to not be so opulent.
Here’s a new station that’s just been built for ya
That’s not opulent, that’s just bad taste. The other one was absolutely beautiful.
Certainly better taste than anything your shithole has to offer.
None of the design elements work with each other, to start with. Then it’s like after the fact, some shmuck from the propaganda office told the architects to stick a stupid looking fighter jet in there. It’s like a weak man’s idea of a strong design.
I’ve never read a more sour comment in my life. Thanks for letting me know how much you’re seething and coping there.
Yeah. DC has some very pretty metro stations. NYC has SO MANY stops in Manhattan it was silly when visiting.
Do you mean “agitprop”?
Of all things America sucks at, the NYC subway is not the thing to attack. Fuck cars
The issue isn’t the presence of a subway system, but rather the need for more funding, care and attention.
Agreed. We are lucky to have that. Also I’m pretty sure that the photos were chosen to show off the worse of the US subway system in NYC. I remember riding it once and thought it was pretty clean.
I guarantee that someone could do the same for the other subway systems if they should choose too.
The underground stations in Prague are great as well!
The only way to truly experience the Montreal’s subway is through the smell.
Bad meme, id you want to dunk on the US find a better angle than obvious propaganda.
Not mine ;)
Talk about cherry picking lmao
Memes can pick few a cherries, as a treat.
There’s the Oculus stattion in NYC which is ok, but I hate the building it’s connected to. It’s one of only a handful of nice stations though. Half of the NYC metro looks like Silent Hill.
The USA are not America
Well, if you are going to feel better I can post a picture of the subway in the Cartel of Medellin 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Doesn’t work with your title, mate
Russia (St.Petersburg)
Spain (Madrid Atocha)
SPB’s stations are some of the nicest I had the pleasure of being in. The focus back when it was built really was on the people.
St. Petersburg’s and Moscow’s old stations were built to show off superiority of communist state. That’s where you can see lots of polished stone, sculptures, giant golden light fixtures, stained glass, etc. Focus was not on the people. Then starting around 1970s the stations were built with much more utilitarian design. Modern stations built in Moscow in last decade or so look very nice though.
NYC subway is just gross. I guess they are seriously underfunded to afford proper cleaning and renovation
*New York City
Other metro systems look way nicer, looking through the images on a “American subway station” search
Hold tight! That trickle down money is on the next train!
nice, but have you ever been in Baden Württemberg?
Oh lookie, dictatorshp propaganda.
Moscow’s is nice too (and we know whom to thank for that).
why do actual communist planned economy nations have such great train stations (and aesthetics in general)
Car infrastructure is just, and I do mean this seriously, unimaginably expensive. If you do not priotize the car you have such a shitton of money left over you can just put like, chandeliers in your metro stations.
was the USSR very low on car infrastructure? I honestly don’t know so I’m asking (I know they had great train stations too)
Late stage, no, not so much, earlier stages? Yeah, absolutely, especially compared to like the west
