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The Guangzhou Metro expanded again! I wrote a longform post on some of my personal thoughts, experiences and background with a bunch of new metro extensions that opened on June 2025 in Guangzhou. Lots of pictures and video for your enjoyment! Link in next post:
Both Changxing Bridge main towers have topped out today. The Changxing Bridge carries 160kph regional rail trains on the Rudong-Nantong-Suzhou-Huzhou railway over a shipping canal using a 240m long cable stayed main span. Some regional trains on this line will head to Shanghai.
Incorrect. The Shanghai Metro is 808km long not 896km. Also more egregiously, the Shanghai Metro does not have 416km of metro under construction today, Shanghai currently only has 237km of new metro length under construction.
The length of the Shanghai metro is 896km, with an additional 416km under construction.
Hong Kong Tramways is free to ride today, that was a nice surprise. Thanks Kao Corporation I guess?
Shenzhen Metro Line 6 Phase 2 and Line 16 Phase 2 getting ready for opening this year.
Shanghai Metro recently put out two tenders for Line 16: 1) for 6 more 6 car Type A trainsets and 2) a separate tender to optimize its Urbalis888 CBTC system to improve express services and allow for coupling and uncoupling of 3 car sets at stations during revenue service.
Road wear is a function of axle weight to the 4th power. A small car does ~55 *thousand* times as much damage as a pedestrian. If we walked, biked and had trains, our roads would last nearly forever.We have made roads disposable at enormous economic and environmental costs.
A well-preserved 45-metre stretch of a Roman side road (diverticulum) leading to the Appian Way under the McDonald's in Frattocchie, southeast of Rome. The road was discovered during the 2014 construction of the building. McDonald’s decided to sponsor the dig and worked with the…
The Paris Metro just turned 125 years old and it has automated trains with platform screen doors.
La RATP célèbre les 125 ans du métro parisien ! Rendez-vous ce samedi à partir de 11h30 à Porte Maillot pour un événement exceptionnel en présence du PDG Jean Castex. Un moment fort pour honorer un réseau qui fait battre le cœur de Paris depuis 1900. Photo © Collection - RATP
Vietnamese tube homes are based.
Vietnam is the most exciting place in the world for high density, narrow plot architecture, and it's not even close.
LOL, indeed. Tho the map of Chengdu is missing some lines.
LOL
If Place, Japan was a post; deeply ironic really.
I hate how this meme got popularized since in like 99% of cases the Japanese thing IS simply better no questions asked
But muh rural Chinese character.
In 1980, Shenzhen was a sleepy fishing village with only 30,000 residents
この画像、アメリカの地方都市に酷似していて、アメリカ人が驚いているらしい
Real "Place, Japan."
US tackling the tough questions in public transport innovation:
They say China’s engineers are clever, but I only see them do easy stuff like build trains faster than God. Its US engineers tackling the tough questions like “can we make AI more racist?” or “what if instead of giving homeless people homes we gave them a kind of outdoor closet?”
Chongqing Metro official PSA posted 3 days ago: "Chongqing DOES NOT have any light rail, only Monorail and Metro."